Ep. 112: Recreational Tree Climbing - Harv Teitelbaum
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 580 Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2015
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
This isn't about shimmying up a tree as a kid. This is the real deal. Grown-up tree climbing with Harv Teitelbaum. Learn about this innovative sport that allows enthusiasts to really get up there and enjoy the trees and the forest from a whole new perspective. Climb trees of all sorts and sizes from your backyard to exotic trees all around the world. Experience the world from the top! Fun, Fitness & Adventure!
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| 0:00.0 | But to actually get up in the trees, to use ropes and harnesses or saddles, we can actually ascend easily into the crowns of trees and really experience a tree from up on high to feel the tree breathe, to feel it move. |
| 0:16.3 | It opens up a whole other world for you when you get up there. |
| 0:40.4 | Music opens up a whole other world for you when you get up there. This is the Adventure Sports Podcast. |
| 0:43.2 | Brought to you by 180 TAC. |
| 0:44.9 | Get out there and have some fun. |
| 0:49.4 | Episode 112, |
| 0:53.2 | recreational tree climbing with Harve Titlebaum. |
| 1:04.4 | Hello and welcome to the Adventure Sports podcast. |
| 1:06.1 | This is your host, Kurt Linville. |
| 1:10.7 | Today we have a sport that I think may be a new sport to many of you, |
| 1:11.7 | although it has existed for quite some time. We're talking about recreational tree climbing. Our guest today is Harve |
| 1:18.1 | Titlebaum and Harve is a master instructor at Tree Climbing, Colorado. He's the vice president of |
| 1:24.9 | GOTC, which is the global organization of tree climbers, and he was the founding president of the GOTC. |
| 1:31.5 | He teaches environmental sciences online, on the collegiate level, and he's active with the Sierra Club. |
| 1:37.1 | He has been a recreational tree climber now for 15 years, and I'm excited for him to come and introduce this sport to you. Harv, welcome to the program. Thanks, Kurt. Glad to be here. Well, Harv, this is really fun. I don't know if all the listeners out there had the same experiences that I did. As children, I think most of us climbed trees and really enjoyed it. But as we grow into adulthood, a lot of people leave the trees, and I know that |
| 2:01.1 | it's been one of your passions to get adults back into the trees to experience nature there and |
| 2:05.7 | experience the trees. So tell us a little bit about your connection to recreational tree |
| 2:10.7 | climbing and what it's all about. Well, you know, we call it a sport or an activity, but it's more of an adventure and an experience. |
| 2:22.7 | Because we all know trees for the first couple of feet up as we're walking around and looking at trees. |
| 2:28.3 | But to actually get up in the trees, to use ropes and harnesses or saddles and safe and easy to learn techniques, |
| 2:38.5 | we can actually ascend easily into the crowns of trees and really experience a tree from up on high |
| 2:44.9 | to feel the tree breathe, to feel it move, to get a sense of its topography, of its layout from way up high. |
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