Headed up to Coopers Creek in north Georgia this weekend. It offers a lot of climbing options that are relatively easy to access.

Started out with a Tulip Poplar. This area has a number fat Poplars; they aren't the tallest in Georgia (most have been storm damanged) but they are fun to climb.

A couple views of the Tulip Poplar....







View from near the top....




Next I walked a couple hundred feet going over the ridge top to the slope on the other side and found a White Pine.

A couple views of the White Pine....





View from the top of the Pine....




Finally I headed back to the ridge top to a Red Oak that offered a great view....



There were a few decent size White Oaks in the neighborhood that I wanted to climb but is was getting late and I was getting worn out. I'll save those for another trip.

Jim, you are the king of the tulips, after reading your post I have to nominate you for King of the Woods Climb as well! Great looking tuliptree, need to get you measuring with a laser rangefinder and circumference tape, would be cool to get some measurement data on the trees you're finding.
-AJ

Moss - your the King of the White Pines. This was my first solo on a White Pine. It's a lot of work....getting a line around a live branch, isolating the line, avoiding everything that showers down from the tree, and finally all the pitches you need to get to the top (I need to learn how to make and use lanyards). That said, I can see why you're drawn to them...they smell great and your chances of "topping out" are high.

Come on down to Georgia sometime with your rangefinder and we'll do some measuring and climbing.

I invited Joe and Bill to join me (they've been to Coopers before) but didn't hear back from them. I think they're getting soft in their old age...anything that requires more than a hundred yards walk from the car is to far for them

All kidding aside, I wish I was half the climber they are.

Bill and I are down here in Florida for the Rendezvous....where it's warm!

Poplars....? White pines....? Whatever.....

Moss....when you coming to the rainforest???????

Kings...? Of what...?

You boys need to get over your ego trips. I don't brag about it (at least not too much ), but I've been climbing those huge tulip poplars at Cooper Creek for at least 10-12 years, and I've probably logged 100-plus climbs to 120 feet or more in white pines, including to more than 150 in Big Mama Pine.

So Moss, when are you going to come south and do these trees?

Kings...? Sheeesh...!

Have to give credit where credit is due... usually one good woods white pine is enough for me in one day. Jim C. is one of the higher energy woods climbers around, try keeping up with him sometime, part greyhound I think.

Easy does it there Bill, you're still the Emperor of All North Georgia Woods Climbing, well maybe it's a shared title between you and Joe.

As far as Georgia climbing goes time and money are the constraints, I'd love to do it when the opportunity comes up.
-AJ