for me it depends on how high i am going. or if i am in a portable or a perminent.

in a portable i always were one. in a perminent if it is a brand new well built stand with rails on the sides, i usually don't were one.

sometimes i bring my portable but put it up only 5-8 ft just to get a better view. the under brush and thicket is bad here in minnesota and i like to get up just high enough to see over it. at those hights i usually dont were a harness because if i fell i would be ok

some people don't like the inconvieniance of having to deal with them, and thats totally up to them. others like the piece of mind knowing they havea saftey net. i think it depends on the situtation if you ask me.

i heard most people fall when climbing up or down their stand. so if you already unhooked your harness to climb down, or have yet to hook your harness on your way up. the harness isnt going to do much good is it.

climbing trees is dangerous business. but i remember as a kid climbing 20-30 feet up into the high branchs of trees with my pals in the nieghborhood and no body got hurt.

i usually like a harness on when i am tired and am in a portable stand, that way if i fall asleep or something i will be ok. even though if i did fall asleep i doubt very much that i would fall out of it.

be careful out there people. i hate to hear about hunters getting hurt.