I don’t know why it always happens this way. Perhaps some kink in the time/space continuum? Even Einstein would be perplexed. Three-thirty on a Friday, end of the day, end of the week, by definition and circumstance the last climb [...]

Just because it is on the ground doesn’t mean it is harmless. Photo courtesy of Tim Basham. In the aftermath of the 1998 ice storm in Maine, while crown cleaning a large maple over a section of cemetery and road, [...]

Photo by Amit Lahav/Unsplash Addiction comes in many forms. Most of them are not healthy. My wife is always on me about steering clear of sugar. We recently had a discussion where I admitted I’m a sugar addict. I’ll just [...]

Photo: Unsplash/Getty-Images. A lot has certainly changed in the tree care industry since I embarked on my climbing career in the early 1970s. Tools, equipment and techniques have all evolved. Back then, manila ropes were in common use for climbing [...]

Metasequoia glyptostroboides at the Chinese Temple in Oroville, California. Photos courtesy of the author. The deciduous redwood tree, Metasequoia, was thought to be extinct when a fossil of it was first “discovered” in China by Shigeru Miki in 1941 or [...]