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Lightest Climbing Methods?

Train hard and hunt easy...Cam uses a 130 boulder for his platform as seen here:
 
this cat runs alot ..and bulking up your legs in a gym does nothing for him as a cross country runner .bigger muscles use more energy and are less efficiant. . real situation training for his legs to be strong yet efficiant is where its at....dont be fooled no amount of training ever prepairs you for the blacktail woods .only the blacktail woods prepairs you.
 
tailgunner said:
this cat runs alot ..and bulking up your legs in a gym does nothing for him as a cross country runner .bigger muscles use more energy and are less efficiant. . real situation training for his legs to be strong yet efficiant is where its at....dont be fooled no amount of training ever prepairs you for the blacktail woods .only the blacktail woods prepairs you.
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I bet!
 
MNFarmHunter said:
1 stick or 2TC, you'll still have to slacken your tether enough to get up and over the branches. With 1-stick, the safe way is to connect a linemans belt before slackening the tether. With 2TC, you can either do a linemans belt or temp tether (mine is 1/4" amsteel daisy). With 2TC at least, though less safe, is to simply slacken and advance the tether up and over without a backup. Idea being you still have 3 points of contact with your foot in the footloop, knee in the trunk and your other leg wrapped around the trunk.
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2TC you need a second bridge and carabiner along with a friction hitch on the foot tether. When going around branches, clip yr extra bridge carabiner into the loose friction hitch which should be about waist height. Then release or loosen yr main tether and keep going. I use steel carabiners as my quick link.....theres just no danger of side loading when you tape or wire the connected end in place.
 
cataract dave said:
I AM TRYING TO LIGHTEN UP MYSELF. MY GEAR WEIGHT WAS 27LBS THIS IS WITH DYI ONE STICK.JUST BOUGHT LIGHTER PACK AND SAVE 2 LBS. ANYONE SOME OTHER WEIGHT SAVINGS
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Are spurs legal to climb the trees where you will be hunting?
 
All these light weight climbing methods seem to require an ideal tree that resembles a utility pole. Strap on steps work the best but are not as stable as a well set climbing stick, plus running that many straps is a pain. But so is lugging around a set of climbing sticks and the light weight ones cost a fortune. Every public land legal climbing method sucks compared to screw in steps or bolts. But at least if your carrying climbing sticks you can get in a wide variety of trees.
 
with single steps your feet are wider on the tree .with sticks your feet are side by side and right up against the tree.so thats an inacurate assumpion.with straps you dont even worry about crooked trees, bent trees, knots in trees or branchess.none of these make single steps un stable.and there is no chance of them kicking out sideways like sticks.not to mention blacktails will look at your stick and fallow them with there eyes up the tree.for long distance hunting packability takes priority .packing straps in a bag or a stick on a bag getting hung up all day in bear tunnels. i know not every one hunts that way or that kind of wilderness .some guys pull up to a parking lot walk the manicured park trail in 2 miles calling it deep, walk off the trail 200 yards and set up sticks where they can hear traffic.then say i hunted hard all day.if you plan on sleeping in the woods fallowing elk from county to county you probably aint even goin to get a chance to climb a tree so all of it is exess.its just if i get lucky and find hot sighn over a wallow so i dont realy want more than just my saddle, i climb tree branchess.im an aging roofer who needs to be able to cover at least 17 miles in a weekend of the kind of elivation changes most people dont even know exist. so i would rather put more straps around the tree than carry 1 stick.comparing the energy of carrying a clunky stick all day or the energy of putting a couple more straps up in 10 minutes of the day.tree stand hunters will carry in a climbing stand on there back the same distanc as most saddle hunters. if they only hunt from trees they say they dont care about packability or weight its a short walk eat more proteine.my prioritys are long distance packability through blacktail woods first.then weight, then ease of use .in that order.thats why im going to 2tc.other peoples priorities are different. i mean monkeys use sticks to scare animals away
 
tailgunner said:
When I grab this bag I know I'm 20 feet up a tree anywhere I choose without limits other than lazynessView attachment 59485
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I think I use that same bag (think I got it at Walmart shooting department) for 30 bucks and use cranford ezy climb rope steps. Forgot my ring of steps on my last sit. Took four of my cranford steps and made one impromptu. Worked perfectly. I have tried a couple of steps now and the cranford are so easy on and off the tree and are strong and sturdy. You can use with an aider but I’d rather just walk up the tree. Can get the 4 pack for about 40 bucks on sale. They fold up and are super small. Whoopie attachment is perfect and works without any fiddle factor. Sling bag is nice to pull around and grab more steps. Gonna order four more and maybe their scaffold for a ring.
 

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Weldabeast said:
What is the magic weight when light isn't light anymore? 4 pounds maybe 6 pounds? I'm just wondering
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In my opinion, the boundary is the LWHC at 4ish pounds. How many people have a one stick setup (including rap gear, if used) that weighs less than 4lbs? Mine is 6lbs with a modified API stick and HTP rope. Reasonable equipment but not “feathery”.
 
Weldabeast said:
What is the magic weight when light isn't light anymore? 4 pounds maybe 6 pounds? I'm just wondering
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Honestly, all-in pack weight I would say anything under 20 lbs isn't going to hinder me in any way whatsoever. 30 starts to get annoying to lug around. Yinz know that "Be a man" guy? We need him to do one about weight weenie hunters.
 
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