Fear of heights

[forestboy1978]

Thanks for all advice ?

 

Massively hung over ATM so rock climbing/ finding a big tree will have to wait till next weekend...

[wicklamulla]

I find if you have slept and eaten well before a climb that's a big help in dealing with the potential worry/stress of it all.  9 times out of 10 it's 'not as bad as it looks' once ya get up there and start making progress. 

[Mark Wileman]

I spent a lot of time playing around in the bottom limbs of trees, you can learn the limits of your knots/weight vs different branches without having the fear factor of being up high.

 

It really helped me a lot, after about an hour of messing around on this big oak I was literally running out to 10m on a branch walk because I was so close to the ground. Not saying I do that 50ft up, but it got me a lot more confident to go out in the first place!

 

Falling a couple of times helps you too, you need a good fall onto your kit to actually believe in it. I had a limb snap on me in the crown of this old beech and fell maybe 2-3 metres, had way too much slack in my system... but it taught me that the kit works and not to have that much slack

[Ty Korrigan]

If none of the above advice is of any help, consider re-training as a floor tiler but not a wall tiler.

Wouldn't want you freezing up with disco legs halfway up a bathroom wall...

  Stuart