Find your spot on the limb, at least three feet from the trunk, but not so far that it sags under your weight. Prepare your rope with an eye splice* to make a loop in one end. Toss the eye splice over ...

When summer vacation started, this was the place generations of Easton Area kids went to cool off. The longstanding tradition of swinging into the Bushkill Creek from a rope tied to a huge tree ended ...