Quite a few years back, I was gun hunting and using the old baker-type climbing stand. I had no climber and would just hug the tree to climb. After it had rained all night, and I picked a particularly difficult tree to hug (and absorb all the rain from), I reached my hunting height and attempted to haul up my gun - and my did the haul line seem light! Either I forgot to tie the gun on or it came undone, I don't remember, but the haul line came up empty and I had to make an extra two trips down and up the tree hugging a rainsoaked tree (it was bone dry by the time I was done . I have clips on either end of my haul lines now!