Canopy access ACAP 2025
A fantastic week on the advanced canopy access workshop provided by @jamesaldred1 with additional tuition from @waldo_etherington.
The course masterfully blends arboriculture and industrial rope access techniques to create a hybridised safe method of accessing, egressing, executing rescue scenarios and manoeuvring throughout the canopy.
I cannot recommend enough for anyone wanting to deepen their understanding of our connection to trees as well as sharpen their rope craft.
A reading of the piece (AI-generated, interpretive): A tangle of steel hardware and knotted cordage hangs suspended between earth and canopy, while a distant human form dangles among the branches like a figure caught between worlds. The image reads as a meditation on threshold states—the body's ascent into the tree as a descent into older, wordless forms of trust.
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