RE: no harness
I have a question for those that do wear harnesses: Do you have a system in place to catch you if you fall while climbing up to your stand? I'm always strapped in when I'm in my stand, but for my hang on stand I climb up to it then I strap in.
Last week we had a frost here, and my wet (icy?) boot slipped off of one of my tree steps. I was able to catch myself, but it definitely put a scare into me.
I'm in the process of rigging up a static line secured at the top and bottom that I'll be able to clip on to so that I'm secured the entire time I'm in the tree. The way I figure it, I'm a lot more likely to fall when climbing in/out of my stand than I am to fall when sitting there(naps excluded of course).