My girlfriend fell 30 feet from a tree once. The branches and a solid face plant saved her life. I have no idea how she's still alive.

Bdelo77: My girlfriend fell 30 feet from a tree once. The branches and a solid face plant saved her life. I have no idea how she's still alive.

She must have fallen from the ugly tree.

/sorry

Yeah, I saw that coming from a mile away. I couldn't not post it in light of the inevitable ugly tree comment, am I riiiight?

i like tree

I was trying to retrieve my boomerang from a tree one fine summer day at my university.

It was stuck in an elm about 14 feet up and out on a limb. Unfortunately the lowest branch was around 9 feet. After about a half hour of trying, I finally managed to jump and grab the branch. I then pulled myself up, crawled out to the branch the boomerang was on and managed to shake it down.

As I was jumping down from the tree, I hear one of picnickers across the lawn say to another, "I win! Pay up..."

/don't throw 'rangs into trees anymore

It's still better than dieing from a brain aneurysm from straining too hard while on the can.

I broke my back hopping off a wall to retrieve a frisbee, so I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

Number #3, The Larch

The. Larch.

And now....

Probably a stoned disc golfer. It's harder to throw a beach Frisbee 30' up into a tree.

pnkgtr: Probably a stoned disc golfer. It's harder to throw a beach Frisbee 30' up into a tree.

Exactly what I was thinking. Poor guy lived minutes away from the nicest Disc Golf course I've ever played at...

Sometimes you just gotta put down the bong and let it go, man....

In an eerily similar (but fortunately very different) tale, I was playing some Disc Golf at Lake Tahoe on vacation this past June on a somewhat mountainous course. I lost a disc playing a hole that shot from the top of a large hill toward a blind area down the side of the hill. In the process of looking for my disc, I spotted two others, as it was a very likely hole on which to lose a disc. The problem was, they were both farily high up in a redwood tree. One of the discs I could only hope to reach with a well-aimed rock or stick throw it was so high. The other was attainable by climbing maybe 15 feet or so, and poking it with a really long stick we found nearby. Doesn't sound bad, right? Well since this whole thing is happening on a mountain/hill hybrid, what's 15 feet up from the upper side of the enormous tree is 30-40 feet up from the opposite side, down the incredibly steep hillside. At any rate, the disc I lost was my favorite and the disc so closely attainable in the tree was of fairly high quality-- almost an adequate replacement. I decided to (apparently from TFA?) risk my life to poke that disc down, gaining a new baby for my collection. I never felt like I was in any real danger, making sure to have a firm grip with at least three of my four main appendages at all times as I'd reach or step up. Also, I had a friend well trained in first aid spotting me. In the end, I even found my original lost disc to boot!

In the end, it wasn't worth it, because later, at a home course, lost the only disc I "risked life and limb" for, as I'd tell my friends (a cheap attempt to get a pun out of the fact I broke a tree branch or two climbing up to get it). To make matters worse, I re-lost the previously mentioned favorite disc in my collection at another course in California, this time off of a pseudo-cliff. Damn you, West Coast, and your bumpy lands!

/Just kidding
//Best trip ever (Tahoe & Yosemite double team)
///Climbing Half Dome FTW

Considering how tall redwoods grow, did he even make it to the first branch? And at 30 feet? Fark it. Go buy another frisbee. Or use a rock to get it down. Considering all the times I've spent playing disc golf, the toxicology report should be (cough) interesting.

Aw, Stafford Lake!

We meant to play that one when we were out there, unfortunately it just didn't happen... it wasn't really between SFO and Tahoe per se and we were on a strict-ish schedule. Heard GREAT things about it though.

/both of us avid DG'ers
//neither of us ever been stoned-- still an accurate stereotype though :)

I'm surprised the headline didn't say "If your frisbee gets caught in the branches of a redwood tree, don't go after it cause it's gone man."

/this is fark after all

Came here to say, "disc golfer", but done damn got beat on that.

Depends on the disc. I'll go climbing for one of my good drivers or one of my ace discs, but some crappy DX disc that I found somewhere? No way.

Besides, you only have 3 minutes to get it, according to the rules. That includes plummeting time.

/disc golf thread!

If only there were some way to retrieve things from trees without climbing them.

RogueLeader: Aw, Stafford Lake!

We meant to play that one when we were out there, unfortunately it just didn't happen... it wasn't really between SFO and Tahoe per se and we were on a strict-ish schedule. Heard GREAT things about it though.

/both of us avid DG'ers
//neither of us ever been stoned-- still an accurate stereotype though :)

If you ever make it back up to the area, I'd strongly suggest you set aside an afternoon for this one. Hell, it's worth the trip for this hole, alone!

So, did he get his frisbee?

If he was a Frisbeeterian, then this was exactly the way to go.

1K! Geez Louise!

There's a course around here that's around 700 feet called The Beast, and I thought that was a tough one. Actually, I think the official yardage is 666 (who knows, don't ask!)

I love the video on the linked page of that guy kicking the tee box. I usually go straight for the disc bag, but typically after missed putts, not awry drives. We definitely plan to make it out again (on Yosemite's merits alone), and I will certainly find time for the Staff' (along with some other legendary CA courses)

Nice profile, Charmer, where do you play? Any PDGA experience?

FTFA:Paramedics tried unsuccessfully to revive Wood.

This sentence make anyone else snicker?

If a hippie falls out a tree in the forest and no one is there to hear does he make a noise when he hits the ground?

This is why disc golfer's carry a regular golf ball in their bag: to knock the disc out of the tree without climbing a dangerous distance off the ground.

Shoe work too, although they have a bad habit of becoming one more item you have to get out of the tree.

Not impressed.

/shamelessly HL FTW!

I wonder if they got to him before frisbomortis set in.

Uhhh... I thought it was "Lousy way to go #30: Falling 2,742 feet out of a redwood tree..."

/Confused

When the walls fell.

That weasel snagged the bee!

Rob Wood climbs redwood. Now dead wood.

A Disc Golf thread!!!

I tried clicking on the link to find out if that was the case, but it's Farked.

This is why I carry about 8 or 10 golf balls in my bag. They're nice projectiles for disloging tree-stuck Golf Discs.

/PDGA World Championships coming to my neck of the woods in a few weeks!

Single White Male
It's still better than dieing from a brain aneurysm from straining too hard while on the can.

To some it's a horrible way to go. To others, it a retirement plan.

Maybe if Mr. Wood had shot off a behind the back flip with the frisbee before he hit the ground, it wouldn't have been so awful.

I don't push 'em, I just collect their souls before the trauma happens.

And for those of you claiming he was a stoned Disc Golfer...That's highly unlikely. A stoned stoner climbing 30 feet up a tree would be a first in the solar system...

a 40 footer claimed my favorite midrange a few weeks ago. would have climbed it if I could, but branches didn't start for at least 15 ft.

cool DG site -->Link

Forgot 2 laws...gravity and Darwin....

Ow My Balls: A Disc Golf thread!!!


Dude.

mtylerjr: If he was a Frisbeeterian, then this was exactly the way to go.

I believe your supposed to be stuck on a roof for eternity, not a tree!
/came for Carlin quotes
//dissapointed by disc golf

RogueLeader: Nice profile, Charmer, where do you play? Any PDGA experience?

Thanks! E-mail in profile.

Climbing 30 feet up a tree for a frisbee is way too much work if you're truly stoned.

RogueLeader: blah blah blah

In the end, it wasn't worth it, because later, at a home course, lost the only disc I "risked life and limb" for, as I'd tell my friends (a cheap attempt to get a pun out of the fact I broke a tree branch or two climbing up to get it). To make matters worse, I re-lost the previously mentioned favorite disc in my collection at another course in California, this time off of a pseudo-cliff. Damn you, West Coast, and your bumpy lands!

/Just kidding
//Best trip ever (Tahoe & Yosemite double team)
///Climbing Half Dome FTW

BIG TIME LOSER

Here's my best lost Golf Disc story:

I had my favorite old driver nick a tree and fly somewhere into a nearby creek (a 9-year-old red SE Teebird that flips up perfectly for me when there's no wind). Lost.

Its replacement in my bag (another old Disc that behaves similarly, a '98 Ken Climo Pro Gazelle) got me an ace in a matter of weeks...on the same hole!! I had an ace drought of several years erased, too.

Then...Months later, somebody actually found my originally lost Disc and mailed it back to me!

Disc Golf is very cool. Extremely fun and extremely affordable too. Find a course near you (new window)

Owns all other flying discs.

Can't believe nobody posted the alternate headline..

Dead Wood falls from tree

Is that hippie chick still living in a redwood in California?

Putt from the gut...

navyjeff: It was stuck in an elm about 14 feet up and out on a limb. Unfortunately the lowest branch was around 9 feet. After about a half hour of trying, I finally managed to jump and grab the branch. I then pulled myself up, crawled out to the branch the boomerang was on and managed to shake it down.

Half an hour to get something out of tree 14' off the ground? That sounds like a really bad fail right there. How long does it take you to get out of bed in the morning? About three hours, by my reckoning.

;)

dryknife, Julia 'Butterfly' Hill returned to earth years ago. Her subsequent lecture circuit was a bit lackluster - apparently very few people speak Sequoia these days.

/lives 10 minutes from there.

Frisbee Golf is for hippies.

remember, it's not worth your life. Let it go. It's got your name and number on it anyway. Doesn't it?

Destroyers freakin RAWK!!!!

fanbladesaresharp: Considering how tall redwoods grow, did he even make it to the first branch?

I haven't been to Howrth Park, but knowing that area, it's a poor place for redwoods to grow (not enough fog). They probably weren't much taller than normal trees, meaning the first branch would be reachable.

/just went hiking in Big Basin
//first branches on those trees start at 100 feet

TheFatManCometh

BIG TIME LOSER

I got the joke after a little while, about losing the discs. Why did you quote the slashies though?

WHAM-O

RogueLeader: .... The problem was, they were both farily high up in a redwood tree.

Sorry Dude, ain't no redwoods around Tahoe. Ponderosas yes, Jeffreys yes, but no redwoods. Some near Yosemite, more in Sequoia, many in Humboldt.

/It's all about the micro climate...

Was it this guy?

Yeah, I just sort of refer to every pine tree in northern Cali a redwood. They were all red in color, anyway. I admit I have no clue about trees.

/was never that Poplar

There's a course about 2 minutes from me, North Park, San Diego. Seems to be fairly popular. I wouldn't know. For me, Vodka and disc golf are not a good match.

raab: Number #3, The Larch

The. Larch.

And now....

The horse chestnut.

At least there wasn't a bear up in the tree.

So my brother took this police report. Apparently he was one of Santa Rosa's homeless drunks who was prone to this sort of asshattery.