Highest tree.

[Hollands]

tallest tree ever recorded was a eucalyptus if im not mistaken. In either new zealand or australia. It had fallen over though.

I heard they cut it down to measure it.........genius.

[Sciadopitys]

I heard a similar story, and i have also heard tales of old growth Douglas Firs in British Columbia exceding 400ft. in years past! Who knows if there are any left? Canada is a very big place!!!

[Will Ayers]

i climbed one of englands tallest trees with college earlier this year, my tree was next to the tallest and that was measured at over 60m which is 200 foot ish. it was awesome. i stayed up there for ages taking photo's of the other climbers in the tallest tree got a bit cold, coming down i had to change my 37m rope over 3 times and then get on to the SRT system for the last 10m or so i was warm by then!

[tomshiell]

i climbed one of englands tallest trees with college earlier this year, my tree was next to the tallest and that was measured at over 60m which is 200 foot ish. it was awesome. i stayed up there for ages taking photo's of the other climbers in the tallest tree got a bit cold, coming down i had to change my 37m rope over 3 times and then get on to the SRT system for the last 10m or so i was warm by then!

 

Has mark got those pictures? I havn't seen the one of me yet.

[testcricket01]

properly a 110' beech and 100' pine and 2x around 100' ash trees

[Tom D]

I did this a while back, for thos that haven't seen it.

 

I chickened out at 55m.

 

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[Gord]

What kind of firs are those Tom? I've pieced apart a few Grand Firs locally about 200' tall.

[jarnii]

I went camping in Glen Affric near Inverness in Scotland last Easter and took my climbing kit with the intention of exploring the canopies of some Scots pines. I was reading a leaflet in a local pub about the wonderful native Scots pines and i turned it over and read that a valley nearby had several 200ft. Douglas Firs growing in it and they were some of the tallest trees in UK. I woke up early the next morning to track them down. I found em and there were quite a few. 30 minutes later i was at the top of one of the largest ones, wasn't a very challenging climb, but it was F*&%king high! I didn't really see the ground until about 150ft. when the trunk got a little sparse of branches. I glanced down and could hardly see the mrs on the ground beneath. Its over twice as high as i had ever climbed before. Probably only been 90ft - 100ft. a couple of times.

 

I would love to be 200ft. up on spikes knocking it out in sections! I would love to go to Australia and New Zealand and tackle some of these big Eucalyptus some of you spoke about!!! It will happen one day, i will make sure it does!

 

Might pop back up to Scotland this Easter and tackle that tree again, or one of its neighbours!

 

hey,

 

just noticed ur post and thought id reply, im in au at the moment and im working in the bush fire area around marysville, im doing the contract of clearing all the bush walking tracks and making them safer than they are now. all the trees we climb are around 150 - 200ft and we climb em three days a week. we use the tues and thurs to chill and on the climbing days we may do three each. its bloody hard going and esp on a friday when you are just drained.

 

there are still some huge trees here heading up to 300 but they are in secret locations, ive been doing some research on some in tasmania which are poretty big and a few of the climbers here are planning a trip there at some point to meet up with the tazzy climbers and just have a few days of climbing.

 

interesting thread though.

[Will Ayers]

yeah marks got some pics. i gave him a cd full of them. theres some cracking pics of people at the top. gimmer, get them on here for all to have a gander at, especially the ones of steve looking a bit camp.

[Pete Mctree]

Managed 240ft the other weekend in a 250ft tree:001_cool:. It's a bloody long way down from the top:scared1: