Tall oaks from little acorns grow. -Anonymous

You don’t have to look far to find a tree worth climbing. And tree climbing isn’t just for kids. It’s an adventure, but it’s also a great workout. Climbing exercises the upper torso by using many of the muscle groups not often worked.

Anyone who’s young at heart and ready for the enjoyment trees can provide will find tree climbing fun (as long as you’re not afraid of heights). It is at once a thrilling, enchanting, and calming experience.

Tree climbers love being aloft and, with advances in technique and equipment, large trees that were once considered too big to climb can now be scaled with ease and safety. Although if you go back and try to climb the bad boy that terrified you when you were six, chances are it might not seem so big anymore.

If you want to really explore tree climbing, or see what’s new since you were a kid (a lot), check out Tree Climbers International, Inc. In addition to promoting tree climbing, they teach the sport of “rope and harness” climbing so that everyone can experience the joy and wonder of seeing the world from the heights of the treetops!

What are you waiting for? Go climb a tree!

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• Youth Athletics
• Adventure
• Exercise
• Outdoors
• adventure sport
• rope and harness
• tree climbing
• treetops

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