Boston area recreational tree climbers

We're called BARC, let's climb some trees!

BARC is a Boston, Massachusetts area tree climbing club promoting safe recreational tree climbing using rope and harness technique. We climb for fun, for exercise, to renew our spirits, and to deepen our knowledge and respect for trees and nature.

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Treestock '08 report

It's spring (like I need to tell you) and I've been climbing as much as I can. No more thawing out frozen hands in the tree, yipee! I recently got back from climbing in North Carolina with a gang of like-minded tree huggers. We climbed and camped in a beautiful county park called Tanglewood in Clemmons, North Carolina. This was a permitted climb arranged by Bob Wray of Blue Ridge Tree Climbing in Virginia. We climbed for 3 days, night and day u… Continue

Posted by Moss on May 15th, 2008 at 3:44pm — No Comments (Add)

Welcome to BARC

The BARC community web site has been up and running for little more than 24 hours and I'm happy to see many of my tree friends and future climbers joining in. Thanks are due to Joseph Porcelli of Neighbors for Neighbors for encouraging me to get this going. -moss

Posted by Moss on November 14th, 2007 at 10:00am — 1 Comment (Add)

TCIA Expo in Hartford

I just went to the Tree Care Industry Association exposition in Hartford, CT. If there are new climbers here who want to try out some gear before you buy it (a good idea) then make a point of going to either the TCIA expo sometime or maybe NE Grows (if it's open to the public). There's nothing like actually sitting in a saddle to get an idea of the type and size you need. I think the 2008 TCIA expo is in Milwaukee next year. Maybe someone here will know if NE Grows is accessible to non-commer…

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Posted by Bob Mihalek on November 13th, 2007 at 2:22pm — 1 Comment (Add)

Thanks for pullin this together

Hey Andrew and new friends,

Thanks for pulling this together. I looking forward to challenging myself, get away from my computer, being outside and being a kid again.

Joseph Porcelli

PS> check out another network here on NING called at http://mugproject.ning.com.

Posted by Joseph Porcelli on November 12th, 2007 at 10:49pm — 1 Comment (Add)

 
 

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