The Only Place You Can Legally Climb a Redwood

Dangling like a piñata from a polyester rope, I’m inching up a 1,000-year-old tree named Grand­father. This forest in Northern California’s Santa Cruz Mountains is said to be the only place where one can legally climb a redwood. I’ve covered about 100 feet in 30 minutes, halfway to the top. Suspended in my saddle—a sort …

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