Tree Climbing Master Champions

By Erica M
July 28th, 2006 @ 8:13 AM Recreation, Things To Do

The International Tree Climbing Championship is being held this weekend in Loring Park. Preliminary events are held Saturday from 8:30-4. On Sunday there’s the Head-to-Head Footlock competition at 9am, the Women’s Master Championship at 11am, and the Men’s Master Championship at 1pm.

WTF is a head-to-head footlock?

I wonder what kind of people show up to a tree climbing competition. Is the entertainment value on par with lumberjacks and lumberjills?

(via DeRusha)

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2 Comments so far

  1. Urgewyrm (unregistered) July 28th, 2006 4:47 pm

    Lets see..hottest weekend in awhile ( and one of the hottest this year ), random childhood activity turned into a ’sport’, strange lingo that only participants could understand…..

    Yup, gotta be rednecks.

  2. Andy (unregistered) July 28th, 2006 11:44 pm

    I went to school with a bunch of tree climbers. The forestry program at the U of MN is full of ‘em. Go figure.


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