Went out hunting yesterday. It was raining insanely hard. My one buddy went to his tree and my other buddy (Ccm352) decided to hunt a tree he hunted a couple days ago. Unfortunately it was about the same location I wanted to hunt and only about 20 yards from the tree I was hunting the week before. So I started walking around looking for a tree. I thought I found one but by the time I was 10 feet in the air I had cut about 20 branches off and was fighting the climber up the tree past branch stubs. By that time I didn't know if I was more soaked from the rain or all the sweat from trying to get up a tree. I decided to get down and finda tree with no branches. I walked about 30 yards and found one. This time I got up the tree in relatively easy fashion. I sat down, moved my foot and my platform fell 20 feet to the bottom of the tree. There I was 20 feet up a tree without a platform or bow. I sat for a minute to weigh my options. I really didn't have any so I radioed (luckily I bought radios 5 days earlier.)to by buddy (Ccm352) to come help. Reluctantly he came and helped me out by hooking the platform to my bow line.(don't cut the line on the platform that you tie to the seat.. I did cause it got in the way. I plan to now put a line back on.) That worked and he went back. The rest of the morning was spent sitting in pouring rain watching branches fall off of the surrounding trees. Didn't see one deer. Got down and realized that my rain gear did nothing and I was soaked to the bone.