I was at the park in Carlsbad. It’s a very big park where I have childhood memories from when I played pop warner football as a kid. I decided to come back one day and was walking around when I stumbled upon some big trees. These weren’t easy to get up either. Trees are classified in my book as easy starts and hard starts. Some trees have low branches where you can start from but usually the bigger the tree, the higher the first branch is. This can be challenging or may stop you right in your tracks right from the start.
I decided to get up this tree and it was one of my most difficult. In the mind of a tree climber, you’re not just worried about how you’re going to get up, but you have to figure how you’re going to get down too. Remember I was speaking about the easy and hard starts, well this one was a hard start and realized that it would be harder getting down safely too. It wasn’t just the height of the jump but the ground was at an angle so it wasn’t flat terrain. Whenever I am climbing, I try to limit how much force I will endure when jumping down. So I was stretching my leg across the torso of the tree and then finally jumped over to the ledge, but I was wearing a tank top, and when my arms were hanging from the branch, which is really wide, my whole forearms were basically hugging it. When I was falling down, I grabbed it and scraped my inner arm, right near the armpit almost, and got a nice little scrape from the tree’s rough texture. Sometimes big trees can fig back,https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/mobile/recent?pli=1