This determined young owl is using all the tools at its disposal to climb up the vertical tree trunk. The beak grabs the bark, the talons dig in, the legs push up and the wings provide some balance and uplift. Often, after fledging and fluttering to the ground, they start by first picking a low sloped, or fallen, tree to immediately get up off the ground and to the forest canopy where usually one of the adults is standing guard/watching. This one has been practicing on those low sloped trees for a couple of days now, stumbling and falling back to the ground several times. It seems that it has decided that now straight-up is the best way to get to Mom, who unfortunately is perched in an adjacent much higher tree. I've seen this one do a few short hop-flights from branch to branch already, so it won't be long and it will join Mom, Dad and its one sibling up high and out of camera reach.