Did You Know…
Posted by MiriamForgotten how to get yourself up in a tree? Well, it’s easy with low branches, of course, but if the branches start high, you need to think of your body as a diagonal plane. Don’t try and pull yourself up vertically; that’s defying gravity! Wrap your arms around the trunk. Sturdily push your legs into the trunk as you wrap them around the trunk, and push yourself out diagonally, so your body weight pushes into the tree. That’s the concept and the trick: make the physics of the diagonal to work for you. From there, keep reaching, moving your arms up, moving your legs up to meet them. Soon you’ll be hidden in the branches, ready to spy, read, or dream.