i had a friend that bought one last year, ended up taking it back to bass pro shop. I think his exact words were something about it being a "mickey mouse " design. He said the clips that hold the ladder section together were made of cheap plastic and he didn't trust it to climb a tree, and it also required a very specific diameter of tree that was hard for him to find where we hunt. When he showed it to the manager @ BP they actually took them off the shelves for a while. don't know if they got the design fixed but i would check into that if I were you.