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Are some of you really taking more than 1 trip up a tree to get set up?

sampotter

sampotter

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Just curious? The thought of taking multiple trips up and down a tree to get set up never crossed my mind in all my saddle hunting years, and I almost always am hang and hunting.
I’d never heard anyone mentioning it until this year. Is this a problem specific to using climbing sticks?
 
One trip up. 3 helium’s and an aider on the bottom stick. Pull my bow up with a rope once I’m set
 
As someone else has shared, I have two paracord loops hanging off my pack ,one on either side. Put bottom two sticks on tree and hang other two on loops w/platform bungeed to pack. climb in one trip.
 
WHEN I have planned properly, I can do it in 1. I have needed more than 1 trip many times. You can do it, you just have to think it through, pack accordingly and execute the plan when you get there.
 
Depends if I bring 3 or 4 sticks (determined by how high I think I should be after scouting). If I do 4, I hang first 2 then head down for last 2. If 3, one trip is all I need.
 
I have wished I made a second trip many times, when I drop something (like this morning when I dropped my recliner) but once I’m in the trunk I loathe the thought of coming down. Come to think of it, I loathe the thought of going up too. I just wish I had bear claws and could scale trunks like Ursus Americanus, but I hunt public land and spurs are illegal. Unless i drop something important like a release or rangefinder, I don’t come down until closing time. I did try a two-tripper with my treestand once, but it was not any easier or less annoying. I just made noise for an extra 6 minutes.
 
I did the same with my thermacell yesterday. Knocked it to the forest floor. The mosquitoes would have had to been really bad to force me back down the tree. I literally stop at the base of the tree, hook my gear hoist to it and start climbing. When I get to the top I set my tether then bow hanger and pull my bow up. I don’t see why anyone would make more than one trip up.
 
About 9 years ago I was looking at using sticks to replace my climbing stand. YouTube video showed a guy doing several trips. Not for me!

Late last year I stumbled on saddle hunting and now I have one stick!!!!
 
heck no 1 trip no pull rope, its to hot to climb more than one time and I got tired of my bow being on the ground when deer walk by
 
One trip, CAYG aider. I carry two ball bungee cords on the mole loops of my saddle to carry my other two sticks up and loop the third one with a daisy chain strap around my neck. That's my second stick installed on the tree. Sticks three and four are on my ball bungees. My pull rope has a biner and also has a hook about two feet away from the biner so sometimes I just hook my steps on that instead of carrying them up. If its really windy I do that as the deer won't hear me. Otherwise they dangle from my bungee loops up the tree.
 
Ha Ha I have contemplated crapping in a baggie. Can't you just picture a guy with his saddle up on his back trying to crap in a 1 gallon baggie!? What if he loses his balance? You don't want to be on a leaner that day!
 
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