How high are you?

I have two ground blinds and use them extensively, but my ladder stand is 17' to the bottom. It doesn't get used much as my wife is leery of the height.
 
When I was using stands around 12ft. Although my one stand was on the edge of a hill so 8ft was plenty. My friend fell 15 ft. and broke his back several yrs ago, parapelegic now. Kinda dampens your spirits on tree stands. On this property I am setting up a series of ground blinds, it's working fine so far. This is really a judgment call on what you need for the terrain your hunting and what your comfortable with.
 
I was watching Jim Shockey the other day and he was hunting from a dug out cave/ditch sort of setup with a fabricated roof with all natural cover, looked pretty awesome, but wouldnt work for my current location.
 
Obviously I'm the anomaly here, I have a climber and I am typically around 30-35', and when I get to the top I ratchet strap the bottom and top to the tree, this way I can nod off whenever I want and still feel secure.

I always have my harness on and always have the top and the bottom tied together; however I should get a tension relief strap just in case.

Being up high is a rush for me and I believe it is a little more forgiving with scent and movement.
 
B-N said:
Obviously I'm the anomaly here, I have a climber and I am typically around 30-35', and when I get to the top I ratchet strap the bottom and top to the tree, this way I can nod off whenever I want and still feel secure.

I always have my harness on and always have the top and the bottom tied together; however I should get a tension relief strap just in case.

Being up high is a rush for me and I believe it is a little more forgiving with scent and movement.
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We are very similar. I don't have a climber stand, but typically I place stands 30' up. The lowest stand I have now is about 20' up an ancient White Spruce, awesome natural cover there. I usually decide the height based on the cover of the location. If I am setting up in a Trembling Aspen on the edge of a meadow I want to be as high up as I am comfortable going to avoid being spotted, I can also see further, and to let my scent carry a long ways down wind before it comes down to ground level. If it's a Spruce in a swamp I don't need to be as high because I have cover around me, I can't see very far to begin with, and my scent is trapped in the area because of more limited air movement, gotta really play the wind here.

Recent years I have been shifting to ground blinds as they are easier to set up and take down for the run and gun game. I still prefer a tree stand to a ground blind when bow hunting. My girlfriend is also extremely afraid of heights, I don't think I could even get her into a stand 5' off the ground never mind a 30 footer in an old poplar, so ground blinds it is.
 
I'm in the proses of building a "stand" more of a tree house 50' to the floor
I picked 50' because it's in a huge poplar and that's where the branches started
And it helped me start the frame work, it's very sketchy working that high, but
I'm using fall arrest. I got the climbing sticks up, n a couple peaces of floor framed
I'm picking up a new chain saw n a lumber jig this winter to finish it over the spring
N summer ... With no sheep tag for this up coming season, I should be able to finish
It by winter at the latest ...

I'll post pics and the story after it's completed

Anyone have a Stihl 661 for sale in AB?
 
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