Ethics

None of this is a rulebook. It's just what's worth knowing before you go looking for a tree.

In spring, a lot of trees have birds nesting in them who were there first. If you see one, find a different tree that day.

Boots and repeated climbing wear bark thin over the same line. Vary your route up a tree you visit often, the way you would with a trail.

Some trees are old enough or rare enough that they go on the Beloved layer instead, sat with rather than climbed. If a tree is marked protected, look, don't climb.

A lot of good trees are on somebody's land. Public and permission are different things, and the map says which is which where it knows.

The Learn page has more on climbing without hurting yourself.