The Daily News Online

The Daily News Online: "When a crew of Cannon Beach, Ore., firefighters and a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter couldn't rescue a paraglider who blew into an old-growth spruce tree on Sunday, they unleashed 'The Human Squirrel' -- otherwise known as Bob Saari, professional tree climber.

The 52-year-old Rosburg, Wash., resident strapped on his spurs, hitched his way 140 feet up the tree, crawled out on a limb and swung a rope down to the stranded man, who dangled from a lower branch. It was the end of a seven-hour ordeal for Charles Phillips, a Portland emergency room doctor who'd been blown off course around 4:30 p.m. while floating over Seaside's coastline on a paraglider, a parachute shaped like an airplane wing.

Phillips' flying partner saw what happened and called emergency workers, who quickly arrived at the forested ridge in Ecola State Park. An attempt to pluck Phillips from the tree using a helicopter nearly blew him off the branch, and rescue workers eventually called Danger Tree Removal in Astoria.

As darkness was falling, the tree service company's owner phoned Saari, a competitive tree climber and log roller.

'There isn't anybody else I know who could've done this,' Danger Tree owner Tim Hill explained Wednesday evening. 'He's a master at what he does.'"

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Good to have a wingman, good to have a guy that knows how to climb big trees. Good read, take a look...
-Robert