
Tree climbing
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Sep 10, 2026
Want to climb 300-foot old-growth Oregon trees? Here's how to make it happen
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3:35Zach UrnessHOST
We'll talk more about it in the interview about how the mechanisms of how you do it, but we had a great guide who was very helpful, very encouraging.
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3:43Zach UrnessHOST
And tree climbing is physically challenging, and it can be a little bit scary when you're getting way high off the ground like that, [lips smack] but he was very encouraging.
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3:52Zach UrnessHOST
She had a blast.
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3:53Zach UrnessHOST
She got all the way to the, the top of a 250-foot tree, and, you know, we ate lunch on the top branches, and it was just a fun, you know, kind of daddy-daughter bonding experience.
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4:04Zach UrnessHOST
A couple other notes that Leo sent about things that have changed since this initial interview that you're gonna hear.
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4:11Zach UrnessHOST
They've got a lot of attention recently for bringing wheelchair users up into the trees using their harnesses and a battery-powered ascender that he talks about in this interview that makes it easier for people to climb.
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4:24Zach UrnessHOST
We did it kind of the old-fashioned way, you know, pulling ourselves up, but there's also a battery-powered one, kind of like an e-bike for tree climbing.
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4:32Zach UrnessHOST
Uh, but anyway, there was a story about it in The New York Times worth checking out.