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Meadows of Dan

Owner of Blue Ridge Tree Climbing (a recreational climbing business) Bob Wray arranged his annual get together with friends at BRTC’s forested training grounds located on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Meadows of Dan Virginia. A small but devoted crowd arrived for two days of great climbing in some of southern Virginia’s best trees, including ash, oak, poplar, spruce, maple and tupelo. After the climb, everyone sat around the campfire telling stories and enjoying banjo into the wee hours of the night.
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It took very little time for Bob and Courtney to choose and then shuttle up the nearest good sized yellow poplar (80+ feet).
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Courtney at home...
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That evening we gathered around the campfire for a little banjo pickin' and chicken lickin'. Hey, there's a nice tune.
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hand to hand combat!
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They call this the Hobbit tree.
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Me at home.
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Cameron enjoyed hanging out with Courtney by the campfire, almost as much as he enjoyed...
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...the Smores.
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Okay, just one group shot before we go. Oops, the camera log is tipping over!!

  
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Bill at home...
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Bob Wray, Joe Maher and Steve ? digging into seconds!
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The next morning Cam insisted on playing what we call- "Clash of the toucans". That's where we both get off the ground and proceed to swing around the tree- sometimes together, sometimes apart but inevitably in a manner that results in...
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Customer service manager Courtney Kilgore and I arrive at Bob Wray's tree climbing camp bright and early Saturday morning and proceed to "gear up for our first anxiously awaited climb."