Any worries about damaging aspens using 1" webbing? Or any recommendations?
Any worries about damaging aspens using 1" webbing? Or any recommendations?
I don't hang off Aspens or any evergreen trees that have a thin skinned bark. I prefer thick barked pine trees.
I was able to hang off aspens without damage by using more than one wrap.
My most memerable trip to date....same weekend as the Blood Moon(?) we had last fall.
+1, wrap more than once and make sure your strap comes off the tree tangent and not biting into the bark with the loop or hardware cinched down on the wrong side.Originally Posted by Wanderer1
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Wrapping several times will help. You could also fold an old t-shirt or towel an wrap your straps around that to protect the thin bark.
Ok thanks everyone for the suggestions.
Outandback, I live in CA and typically hang from pines, oaks. or other tough-skinned trees, hence my question...
We are in Utah and just driving and day hiking around Sundance/Aspen Grove. I haven't been there in years and will definitely come back to camp in the area. The names carved in the trees along the road got me thinking about possible damage from hanging.
I think I'll bring some wider straps, wrap multiple times and maybe add a towel underneath. Or, maybe there'll be other trees nearby to hang from without getting too far out of the aspens. I just want to be prepared ;-)
Select your aspens with care.. many of them in MN are standing ready to fall over
I am just curious but this thread makes me wonder... I watched a documentary several years ago about Elk and aspen trees. It was basically crediting the Aspen tree with allowing survival of the Elk population in severe winter, high snow. The Elk eat the bark and it sustains them when everything else is covered by the deep snow. I say this because I am all about reducing and even eliminating impact on the environment anywhere we can but wouldn't an aspen tree, that survives having its bark eaten regularly, be one of the trees with the least worry about bark damage?
One tree species in my yard I don't hang from (I actually have 2) is a Ginkgo, They have fairly thick bark, but it is VERY soft, Just 1 hour of my nearly 200 Lbs taking a nap (Oak to Ginkgo) put a dent in one Ginkgo that took nearly 2 years to grow out. The Oaks, have an area that is somewhat polished, The Catawba shoes no signs of use, & the Maples totally ignore me. My Buckeye is still too small to hang from, so no opinion on that species. The Locust isn't near enough to any trees to act as a second, but I have no doubt it is tough enough.
I have hung from a fairly old fruit tree (Choke Cherry I think) & may have killed it I left such a grove around it, even with double wrapping.
I try to not hang from Pines, mostly cause of the sap many of them produce.
FYI: Sycamores can & will drop branches "at will" So I will avoid them also, but they are a good marker for where water MAY be, as they like wet feet.
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The tree on the left up close, these are old deer and elk bites.
The tree in the center you can see snow damage and bit marks.
When the snow is deep and crusty and the wind blows it marks the tree up pretty bad. Look at the bark about the where the elk and snow reaches.
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