I Loved to Climb Trees

I lived to climb trees as a child.  I lived on a farm with a huge grove of trees bordering it which sat on a small knoll that was higher than the rolling green pastures that it surrounded.  When I was angry, hurt or just tired...

When I was young I might have been told not to leave the yard for whatever it was I may have been being punished for, so I would climb trees.
The higher the better. It was a great place to hide and think. I could stay there for hours...

Just dare me. 
That's all it takes. 
Point out a tree and I'm there.
"What tree is my favorite tree?"
The one I sit and lean on old oak.
The one I climb with my eyes closed.
I watch as I'm climbing the trunk...

When I'd visit my dad there was a enormous tree in the front yard and with my sloth like way of climbing I'd go to the top and would sit comfortably there for hours and look out at the sky and view as time went by.
Now there aren't...

I started very young and continue to do so in my forties. One lesson learned..do not climb to the top of pine tree's and look down. Especially when the top of the tree is bending over from weight of chunky twelve year old.

i use to love climbing trees when i was a kid and then showing my kids how to climb them too though it gets a bit scary if a branch breaks or you get stuck for a moment i used to make dens underneath the trees as well we lived by a wood...

I climb trees a lot just to get away from people. It makes me feel free. I like to try and find a place on a tree where I can balance and let the wind blow my hair back. It's a wonderful feeling.

When I was young, I loved to climb trees. There was a cherry tree in our back yard that was next to my Dad's garden shed. On the warm summer days, I would climb that tree and stay up there forever. I always wondered what it would be...

There was this tree in my grandmother's yard when I was little that practically begged to be climbed.
There was a certain level you could climb up to and it looked just like a chair, complete with armrests.
My younger sister and I...

When I was younger it was what I did. I'd climb trees. Then I got to be age 12 and I didn't fit in the trees I was climbing so well anymore. I guess that's when it lost it's spark. But I use to love the crap out of...

i still love it! i'm learning a lot of rescue techniques for rock climbing lately and would love to transfer it over to recreational tree climbing... sort of up the ante a little... so hopefully that'll be one product of this...