On Treeclimbing

>>We started with belaying, because it was so much fun. When we ran out of buildings to belay from we started climbing trees - because there are no rocks in northern Germany, it was the only way to enjoy climbing. We quickly became aware that Treeclimbing is a sport and climbing style in its own merit that offers opportunities and experiences you can't find in climbing rocks. I've climbed rocks since then and can asure that the difference in experience is significant. If I had to choose between rocks and trees today, I'd settle for trees.

A side effect of our treeclimbing style were the compareatively large amounts of money and resources we spent on climbing gear and equipment. We're still well equiped for a large mountain ascent (bolts, hooks and wallnuts aside), despite having mainly climbed trees.

We called it "Treeclimbing", because I'm part american and because english terms sound cool in Germany and we wanted to distinguish our style of climbing trees from what people usually would think of if we said 'treeclimbing' in German.<<

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