To get up onto Level 1 you step onto a saddle between 3 giant Red Oak trees. Once your are standing on the natural saddle you hoist yourself up through an egg shaped portal in the middle of the floor of the first level.

Colors of Level 1 are Yellow, Blue with Brown Diamonds (not in use), Orange amsteel rope, the Blue with Brown Diamonds color is no longer infuse because we learned that it breaks rapidly due to its external sheathing patterning.

We chose a super static amsteel because the areas we working in were so small if we used any other material the perimeter would have sucked in so much the surface area of the floor would have been too small to sit or stand on. Ultra static materials such as amsteel are perfect for when you need the perimeter to not be displaced at all.

At the time of construction we were using handmade macrame tree protection. We spent hours using the paracord colors to make custom tree huggers that go around the trees and hold logs in place, which pad the tree from the rope. We don’t typically make this type of tree padding anymore because of its cumbersome, arduous and time consuming nature. We later learned that a simpler type of tree protection (bolting and sheathing) is more than sufficient.

Continue up to Level 2
Check out the completed 8 Level Tower