I probably spent 60% of my childhood in trees. It wasn't until trimming some downed branches from recent storms, looking up and enjoying them again, that I realized how much I missed that carefree escape.
It’s funny, I’m super reckless about my body with some things: playing football or hockey, going into any mosh pit I can find, working as a bouncer for 10 years has its hazards, I’ve even been in full scale riots with rubber bullets whizzing past me, lmao.
But when I’m not doing any of that dumb shit, I’m wicked cautious, like I avoid doing things where I could possibly get hurt. I fish a lot, and some spots are a little treacherous, and I just don’t try anything risky, at the expense of catching fish.
And when I was a kid, I was always really careful. I had a friend who was ALWAYS fucking himself up, lmfao, and he did it doing things that I could’ve joined in on but knew better. I mean, SOMEONE had to not have any broken bones to go run and get his mom😂
Climbing trees was one of those things I’ve always avoided, to this day. Just didn’t want to take that fall. Meanwhile, after Top Gun came out, every recess session we’d get on the swing set, pretend we were fighter pilots and swing as high as we could, then at the very peak yell out that we were hit and had to bail out, and we’d jump as far as we could starting from like 7 feet in the air, lmao🤦♂️😂
All the time. I grew up on 247 acres of fields, woods and swamps. I explored it all and then some. I was never good at shimmying, but if i could reach a low branch, i was up, up and away! I slept in a few trees, and at the base of dozens. We had a tire swing hung from one in the yard. We had apple trees, pear trees and mulberry trees. So i’ve even been nourished by my homestead jungle gyms. I’m a legit tree hugger. Ell oh ell!
Nope. I'm scared of heights and bugs & insects, so tree climbing would've been a nope.
Yes and I still do, trees are my happy place.
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Yes, I loved to climb trees. One time I ended up at a party is a different town. It was a big forest with a clearing. There were many kids walking around. Everyone was drinking.
I found a big oak tree and decided to climb it to get a good look at the place. I suddenly heard some girls laughing and one of them said it was raining.
I was climbing trees all the time. I still did it in my twenties and thirties. I think I stopped when I turned 36 years old. That's how I would trim the dead branches. I'd climb up the tree with my tree saw and cut away all the dead branches.
I stopped because one day I was in the tree and I had all my weight on one branch that wasn't in great shape. I ended up falling about 15 feet to the ground. God that hurt. I started using ladders to get to the branches after that.
Definitely! We had so many trees with thick branches all the way to the ground where I grew up.
I found incredible solace and peace up in trees.
I still recall the peace I had in my simple tree fort. I could read a book, meditate, sleep, or pray. What a wonderful beautiful thing! 🙂🙂🙂
One of my earlier childhood memories is climbing the trees in my grandparents' remodeled garden and my grandfather taking pictures. Carefree escape, indeed.
All the time.. I was the one the neighbours called in on whenever their cats got stuck in trees
Nope. Not even for a second. I spent time jumping off of playground swings when I wasn't supposed to, but not climbing trees lol.
Yeah, some. But, there was only 2 or 3 trees in the area I could climb. Most of the others went straight up for about 20 feet before they branched out.
I did and loved it. My mother told me that her happiest childhood moments were sitting in a tree with a book, a fresh tomato, and salt.
only twice, once to pick cherry and eat. once for fun but wasn't fun.
Yes, I was a wild child hahaha. I fell a few times 🥲
I really didn't climb trees so much as I played amongst them. My neighborhood adjoined woods. My compatriots and I spent a lot of time exploring and also a nearby small lake.
Like a lot. My grandfather built me a tree fort which spanned across two trees. Happy times..
Constantly. If it would support my weight I'd be climbing on it. I miss that too.
Oh yea we climbed many trees when I was a kid. Fell out of a few to.
I climbed trees as well as a monkey at age 5 but at age 7 I lost the ability to climb them. I think it was due to decreasing upper arm strength.
Yes but my parents made me stop because I kept breaking bones
I did. I was often hanging on a tree branch like a monkey. 🐒
Yes I did, whether it was across the street, at my grandma's, or down in the woods.
I use to always be up in a tree. I still do it once in a blue moon. But I'd do if more often if I had more climbable trees around. ;p
Barely lol I hated my childhood
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