GEORGE DYSON
A Treehouse Grows in British Columbia
Three years, 95 feet above the Earth.
David Brower taught me the laws of mountaineering. First: “Climbing is safer than staying home.” Second: “Never step on anything you can step over, and never step over anything you can step around.” When I left the mountains of California to become a boat builder in British Columbia, I recast this wisdom, in honor of one of the legendary scavengers of the Vancouver waterfront, as Jim Land’s Law: “Never buy anything you can make, and never make anything you can find.”
In 1972, at age 19 and facing my third winter in Canada, I built a small treehouse 95 feet ...
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