I just moved from IA and a typical year of bowhunting would consisit of 90-100 days in a stand. Lots of doe tags plus trophy hunting = lots of time in a stand. This type of mobile hunting is only for people in good physical condition. It will take some practice and getting your own technique for doing this quickly, quietly, and safely. By the time you have done this 25-30 times, it is a breeze. I actually enjoy putting my stand up each time and it is not a dreaded chore for me. I always use a linesmans belt. I only hunted private property and could have had the lands saturated with stands. I hunted 3 different properties. The only other alternative method I considered is to have about 10 ladder stands for every 30 acre timber I hunted. At $80 a pop for each stand and that is $2400 for enough ladder stands for 3 properties. I then need padlocks and cables for each of the stands and this brings the cost to an additional $450. Roughly $3,000 to really do it right. I would then still bring in my hangon and at least one climbing stick so that I could get additional height as 16' is too low for me. The ladder stands are a lot of work to get out to the woods, but they don't need brought in each year and make a nice safe way to get into the stand. They are also heavy and thieves are not so likely to steal them. I still stand by my statement that a climber is too tree specific and will not work on the variety of trees that my setup will. They do have their place though.