{"id":158,"date":"2013-08-04T18:41:47","date_gmt":"2013-08-04T18:41:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/?p=158"},"modified":"2013-08-06T01:39:55","modified_gmt":"2013-08-06T01:39:55","slug":"1st-climber-to-ascend-old-growth-canopy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/2013\/08\/04\/1st-climber-to-ascend-old-growth-canopy\/","title":{"rendered":"1st Climbers to Ascend Old Growth Canopy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_159\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/g_f_beranek.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-159\" class=\"size-full wp-image-159\" alt=\"Beranek Redwood Climber\" src=\"http:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/g_f_beranek.jpg\" width=\"200\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/g_f_beranek.jpg 200w, https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/g_f_beranek-118x300.jpg 118w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-159\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Beranek Redwood Climber<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ever been curious who the persons were to ascend and climb into old growth Coast Redwood canopy? Best I know &#8230; the answer includes Gerald (Jerry) Beranek, presently near Ft. Bragg, California. And he conveyed that at least two others &#8230;\u00a0Vassy and Castro &#8230; were got up there about 7 years before he did. I mentioned part of this this briefly on a book review page before &#8230; but it seemed worth reiterating, after posting about Beranek&#8217;s new Coast Redwood book recently.<\/p>\n<p>My\u00a0 previous comments are on my review of The Wild Trees by author Richard Preston.\u00a0 See <a title=\"The Wild Trees by Preston book review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mdvaden.com\/redwood_book.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">The Wild Trees review by M. D. Vaden<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Actually &#8230; how any adventures, work or climbs by Beranek and a few others, did not find a small place in The Wild Trees, still puzzles me. Beranek is sort of a small legend among various circles of tree and arborist folk. His book on Fundamentals of General Tree Work is a professional classic, sitting on many a climber&#8217;s bookshelf or desk.<\/p>\n<p>Jerry&#8217;s climbs were not scientific in nature. But the adventure and exploration aspect seemed worth pointing out. It should be evident that Beranek is an avid photographer too. He&#8217;s been shooting both film and digital for decades.<\/p>\n<p>Lately, he and his wife, Terri, have spend a lot of time in the Northern California Coast Redwood forests, hiking, photographing, and exploring.<\/p>\n<p>You can access adventures and history of the redwoods and climbing via his site <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atreestory.com\">www.atreestory.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ever been curious who the persons were to ascend and climb into old growth Coast Redwood canopy? Best I know &#8230; the answer includes Gerald (Jerry) Beranek, presently near Ft. Bragg, California. And he conveyed that at least two others &#8230;\u00a0Vassy and Castro &#8230; were got up there about 7 years before he did. I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-forest","tag-climbing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":169,"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158\/revisions\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mdvaden.com\/photoblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}