One stick climbing method.

I have been playing around with using slings to climb. They worked ok for me, but I found using one LW stick is the route for me. Figured I would share this with you guys in case anyone is interested. I strap on the stick climb up to the top step then hook my tree strap around the tree. I adjust the tree strap as high as I can reach then hook into my rock climbing harness. Once this is done I can sit down in my harness & loosen the LW strap. I use one hand to hold the stick & the other to move the strap up the back side the tree. I'm able to advance it up the tree about 2'-3' each hook up. I repeat these step until I reach my desired height then set my stand below my tree strap & climb in. I also have a lineman's belt to navigate around limbs. This method takes a little longer to climb then using multiple sticks. But the benefits are - lightened my load by 5lbs., stable platform to hang stand, and no height limit. Here is a pic of the harness. I will also get a LW mini in the off season to use & knock off another 1.5lbs to my setup.

Good stuff.

Can You Do a Video and Post it?

I got my son to shoot some footage with my phone. It not very good & it's rather large to post. I'll see if Dave can post the clip I sent him. It's about 30 secs. but I think you can get the idea.

Cbigbear wrote:I got my son to shoot some footage with my phone. It not very good & it's rather large to post. I'll see if Dave can post the clip I sent him. It's about 30 secs. but I think you can get the idea.

Well, I dropped the ball here folks. I accidently deleted that email, along with 150 others. I hope he can find it, because it was a good clip.

Good clip, now that's a stretch. But it's the best I could do when my 8yr old camera man was ready to go throw the football instead of videoing.

kool, Nice job and thanx for posting

What do you do if you drop the stick???

The only real chance of dropping the stick is when unhooking completely to go around a limb. I always climb with my stand on my back so if by chance I dropped the stick I can hang the stand each time & move my harness down. If someone was worried about dropping the stick you could tie it off to yourself. I don't because it gets in the way & my fall back plan is the stand.

I've been tossing that idea around in my head also. I like the sling at to bottom to! Thanks for the video presentation.

No problem, I know the video is a little shakey if anyone has any questions just give me a hollar. I will probably switch to a sling when I get my G Web but I like the stability of the stick for hanging my Loc-on.

Good video and idea. Thanks for sharing it.