I have a climbing stand--it's a ol' man vision-but I rarely use it. Most of the time, I can be found in a fixed position stand up among lots of branches. I look for double and triple trunked trees, trees with lots of limbs and so forth. I also like to use very large trees This kind of tree helps to break up my outline.

For this reason, I don't attach the other end of my harness to the tree until I'm at hunting height and the stand is attached to the tree. Much of the time, the tree is too big at the bottom and I'd have to be unattaching and re-attaching it all the way up anyway. I always attach myself to the tree before climbing in the stand though--just in case. Of course, I'm not a dumba--, but's it's impractical since I'd be unattached much of the time anyway.