PE 1659

Redwoods Tree Climbing

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2024-2025 Catalog.

Join Cornell Tree Climbing Institute staff for the experience of a lifetime - climbing some of the largest trees on the planet! Each spring we will travel to the western slope of the High Sierra mountains of California. We'll spend a week assisting the UC Berkeley Department of Forest Ecology with Giant Sequoia restoration and ecology research. Students will learn the basics of roped tree climbing, including ascending, moving around in the canopy, and rappelling. Students will also have the opportunity, weather permitting, to sleep overnight in the top of the trees.  We will stay in a rustic mountain house with limited facilities. All gear, instruction, food and lodging, and on-ground transportation is included in the course fee.

Fees Course fee: $1450 for instruction/food.

Last 4 terms offered 2025SP, 2024SU, 2024SP, 2022SP

When Offered Spring.

Comments This is a multi-semester course. The first part (0 credits) takes place in the spring semester on campus in Bartels Hall, room B01. You must attend the first two classes in the spring semester to participate in "part two" (1 credit); the course trip which runs from May 27th through June 4th during the summer semester. Students are responsible for flights costs to and from Fresno, CA airport. For more information about this course (dates, drop deadline, supplies list, etc.) visit the Cornell Outdoor Education website.

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