Tree climbing weekend
Sep. 19th, 2017 11:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luzulaI went out to climb trees with three other people this weekend. The forecast was good, but on Friday the skies opened and it rained. Nevertheless, we headed out into the woods, but when we got to the shelter we'd planned to use, it was gone, looking like somebody had burned it to the ground. May the people who did it be cursed to also find themselves without shelter in the rain.
So we improvised Plan B, which was to sleep at my parents' house, just a few kilometers away. And the next day we headed out again to a lovely beech forest, climbed trees all day, and the three of us who had hammocks with us stayed overnight, while the fourth one headed home. We made dinner on a promontory by the lake; it was a windless, quiet night, not cold at all. I had had plans to spend the night up in a tree, but in the end just put my hammock up as usual between two tree trunks at ground level. I always forget just how much time it takes to find a good spot up in a tree where it's possible to put a hammock, and then to get everything settled, and after a day of climbing I was just too tired.
The next day we went into town and put up a banner between two trees in a park. There is a military practice operation going on right now, and a corresponding amount of peace activists in town, one of whom was among our climbing group. She'd made a banner saying "practising war leads to war; practising peace leads to peace" and while we were up in the trees to hang it up, a march went by and cheered for us! I felt a little bit like an action hero, which is not a feeling I think I have had before. *g*
So we improvised Plan B, which was to sleep at my parents' house, just a few kilometers away. And the next day we headed out again to a lovely beech forest, climbed trees all day, and the three of us who had hammocks with us stayed overnight, while the fourth one headed home. We made dinner on a promontory by the lake; it was a windless, quiet night, not cold at all. I had had plans to spend the night up in a tree, but in the end just put my hammock up as usual between two tree trunks at ground level. I always forget just how much time it takes to find a good spot up in a tree where it's possible to put a hammock, and then to get everything settled, and after a day of climbing I was just too tired.
The next day we went into town and put up a banner between two trees in a park. There is a military practice operation going on right now, and a corresponding amount of peace activists in town, one of whom was among our climbing group. She'd made a banner saying "practising war leads to war; practising peace leads to peace" and while we were up in the trees to hang it up, a march went by and cheered for us! I felt a little bit like an action hero, which is not a feeling I think I have had before. *g*
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Date: 2017-09-19 10:15 pm (UTC)And good for your friend with the banner, too!
It sounds like a lovely couple of days - minus being drenched, and the shelter having been torched, of course. Sheesh.
I love the photo!
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Date: 2017-09-21 07:15 am (UTC)Probably not that impressive to you, given that everything is bigger in the US. *g*
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Date: 2017-09-21 04:04 pm (UTC)You were wearing a safety harness, yes?
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Date: 2017-09-21 04:08 pm (UTC)Yes! Definitely.
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