( Climbing trees is nothing he learned as a child and is really just a lateral transition of skill from climbing a rope or a cliffside and just making his handholds bark instead of niches in rock. Trees don't tend to be as dangerous but there's danger in anything and he can't get complacent.

Bucky shimmies his way up the tree and perches on the sturdy branch that is connected to his tripline and it seems like the squirrels haven't gotten to it. Yet, anyway. )

This one's clear. I check them every other day. It's a waste of time to do it daily but you want to look at it more than once a week or you run the risk of getting caught by nasty surprise. There's a hive up here. You think you can vibrate in a way to make these bees come out and abandon it?