Go Climb a Tree

With the guidance of Jon Richard of Vertical Voyages and under the additional supervision of Michael Dee (English; Outdoor Education), a group of Burroughs students have been learning the art of single and double rope tree climbing. The students have learned to ascend (using both a loop on a prussic and a foot loop) and to descend (upright and upside down). They also have learned how to explore the canopy by limb walking and line transfers. Weather permitting, on the weekend before Thanksgiving, the group will spend the night, sleeping in hammocks suspended from the canopy of the white oak just east of the art building.

To visit the second foray into the trees.