If I need to use a tree as an anchor, how can I avoid harming the bark?

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Rob Pizem · Answer

How can you avoid damaging the bark on a tree when you use it as an anchor? One of the things you can do is just wrap a quick towel around it and then put your rope or slings around that and then you can avoid damaging it significantly. Also, if you're at a place where people just repetitively use a tree as an anchor, that's where you're going to go ahead and get damaged. The one-time use is not really going to damage it significantly at all. Another thing you might want to use to wrap it around is one of those foam sleeping pads. That will go ahead and pad it and those will stay in place while you're building your anchor. So I would just say if you can protect it with something like a thicker towel or a foam sleeping pad or even a backpack you can go ahead and put around the tree, or where the main force will be pulled upon, those are all great ways to go ahead and avoid harming the tree more than you have to. .

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"If I need to use a tree as an anchor, how can I avoid harming the bark?"