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I fucking do that xdd. A few tips to climbing trees in public spaces:

1. uhh you can do it at night. This of course depends on where you live, if you can go out at night safely, but where I live night is the most peaceful time to go out, and no one is awake to judge.

2. if you dont give enough of a shit you can do it during daytime as well. You'd be surprised at how many people just flat out dont notice you being in a tree.

3. you can pick up bouldering / climbing as a hobby. Goes without saying that this costs money, but learning to climb as a hobby really opens up so many different trees you didnt even think to climb before. Its also a really fun way to exercise, just grabbing those colourful blocks and getting higher. Also makes you less likely to fall off a tree and more capable of taking falls, so overall just safer.

i keep forgetting that most adults simply grow too tall to play on the playground and it no longer fits them. that + the contempt for play so many societies have makes having fun exercise difficult.

but anyway people were commenting about how many new outside free gyms for adults are going up like ‘why can’t they just build adult sized playgrounds why even outside do we have to do the gym’ and it’s a fair point. they’ve got hanging bars and no jungle gym. climbing the stairs to a high slide is a workout with the slide reward. you could argue that children who are too small would attempt to use it and hurt themselves but there are already different sized playgrounds for children based on their age/growth.

the free outside gyms give you the same boring motions over and over and no room for imaginative play. it is possible (ofc) to find fun exercise but most examples (trampoline park, ninja warrior, rock climbing) are costly. they love to beat playing out of their people and then cry that no one is exercising.