The adhesive systems of climbing animals have served as inspiration for a new class of temporary adhesive utilizing surface microstructure in place of intrinsically soft and viscoelastic materials. These have the potential to address requirements for robust, releasable, and reusable bonding. Efforts to characterize synthetic dry adhesives, as well as to scale adhesive patches to large areas while maintaining performance, necessitate consideration of features of the system across length scales. This work addresses two topics which require that the behavior of individual microfibrils be accounted for explicitly within large-scale loading configurations.