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Who climbs stealth like Sam Potter?

sureshotscott said:
How does a non-metal rope-based method of ascending a tree have a negative affect on stealth? Isn't it fair to suggest a guy committed to ascending via ropes could be just as stealthy, if not more, than a guy using sticks? He's lighter, and there's less metal to clunk around. I've read your post a few times and all things being equal I'm not getting what you're opposed to.
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Just expressing my opinion after trying it and just about every climbing method out there. I think it is noisy and has a lot of excessive movement. But didn't mean it's a bad method just not one for me.
 
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Saddle and straps said:
I watched that video and had to stop 3 mins as soon as the guy said this will only work on trees with no limbs and whatever else about the bark of the tree....or something to that effect.

That's when I ruled that climbing style out the door.

Doing that at 5am in the dark of night doesn't seem appealing to me.

I want to be off the ground and climbing up asap , quietly , efficiently , not using a lot energy building up a sweat, and done with my set in 5 to 10 minutes.

Just my 2 cents.

Thanks,
Josh
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The location I am hunting is mostly cattail marsh with small clusters of trees scattered about. Many hunts I will enter an area and decide where to hunt based on sign. Some sits will be on the ground , some will be up a tree. Tree sits won't require I get too high, just enough to get a down shot into a run.
Many of the spots I will access I have a mile and half walk just to get to. The thought of needing only haul 2 tethers in a bag in case of a tree sit sounds mighty appealing...especially if a way around a few branches can be worked out.
In bigger woods, there is an abundance of "climber friendly " trees this would work on.
 
I think you could easily pass a branch with this system, much like you pass a knot on a rope ascension or decescent. You would need a 3rd tether, and with each tether you would be clipped in on a prussik. Take the third tether and girth hitch above the limb. Clip in and slide prussik up to take weight off the other one. Move up foot loop to the one previously used for your saddle. Remove bottom tether and girth hitch and put above branch as well. Sit back in saddle and remove bottom tether and throw it in you're dump bag and you're off again. Like an inch worm!
 
Vtbow said:
I think you could easily pass a branch with this system, much like you pass a knot on a rope ascension or decescent. You would need a 3rd tether, and with each tether you would be clipped in on a prussik. Take the third tether and girth hitch above the limb. Clip in and slide prussik up to take weight off the other one. Move up foot loop to the one previously used for your saddle. Remove bottom tether and girth hitch and put above branch as well. Sit back in saddle and remove bottom tether and throw it in you're dump bag and you're off again. Like an inch worm!
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That sounds like a very good idea!
 
I use a webbing ladder along with my tether. I use a caribiner to make the girth hutch to make going over limbs quicker. Instead of a third tether I will clip into my webbing ladder when passing a barranca so I am never unclipped. This method is very quiet, in fact last year while climbing I had three bears come out in the food plot I was setting up on and I was able to finish my climb without any of them hearing or seeing me. I think any sound they do hear sounds much more natural and doesn’t seem to alert other animals.
 
PtotheC said:
I use a webbing ladder along with my tether. I use a caribiner to make the girth hutch to make going over limbs quicker. Instead of a third tether I will clip into my webbing ladder when passing a barranca so I am never unclipped. This method is very quiet, in fact last year while climbing I had three bears come out in the food plot I was setting up on and I was able to finish my climb without any of them hearing or seeing me. I think any sound they do hear sounds much more natural and doesn’t seem to alert other animals.
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So tether attached to bridge, second tether to webbing ladder, get to the top of the ladder, sit back and raise the ladder tether?How many steps to the ladder?
 
Wolverinebuckman said:
So tether attached to bridge, second tether to webbing ladder, get to the top of the ladder, sit back and raise the ladder tether?How many steps to the ladder?
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Actually one tether to my climbing harness. I use a homesewn sitdrag that I don’t put on until I am up in the tree. The webbing ladder has 4 stepsand I just have an extra biner that I’ll clip it to if I need to go around a limb. But that is exactly how I climb.
 
PtotheC said:
Actually one tether to my climbing harness. I use a homesewn sitdrag that I don’t put on until I am up in the tree. The webbing ladder has 4 stepsand I just have an extra biner that I’ll clip it to if I need to go around a limb. But that is exactly how I climb.
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What brand of webbing ladder do you use.?
 
I'd use climbheist knots so the length can be adjusted. Tether lenth will be very different based upon girth of the tree you are climbing.
 
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