By: chronic sublime
I'm positive slacklining was invented by bored climbers and boulders for something to do on rain days. Regardless, it is quite impressive, as are the rock features at Totem Pole.
View ArticleBy: Forktine
"Freeballing" the Lost Arrow Spire vimeo (NSFW). Woah. I'd say that doing that takes big balls, but we can see that his are quite normal. Not something I'd do, but impressive to watch.
View ArticleBy: Manjusri
"I'm having trouble finding the Totempole"Mountainproject places it here (green arrow). "If young men in the prime of their lives are capable of such ingenuity, patience, and bravery, why are we not a...
View ArticleBy: markr
I understand the route is fully bolted (presumably from back in the day when such things didn't matter, it was originally aid climbed in the 60s). The bit he is slacklining is how you get off the top...
View ArticleBy: OHenryPacey
I was wondering about the fixed anchors myself. I know the various roping/climbing sports have mixed feelings about this, but that spire did seem like a relatively easy place to simply wrap an anchor...
View ArticleBy: Baby_Balrog
Good lord I've tried slacklining. You might as well ask me to fly. It's one of the hardest things I've ever been asked to do and if you screw up badly enough you get a whip-crack to the nutsack. And...
View ArticleBy: Mister_A
The video confirms a theory I'd formulated about slacklining: It sounds like one of those things that's way harder than it sounds. CONFIRMED!! It seems like maybe not a great thing though, honestly, to...
View ArticleBy: spikeleemajortomdickandharryconnickjrmints
I poorly slacklined on Saturday. The first three steps away from the tree are pretty easy. The fourth step is impossible.
View ArticleBy: bonobothegreat
This summer I'm going to try slack-lining over the dog poop in my backyard.
View ArticleBy: Forktine
The hippies around the corner from me do this in their front yard. When someone is really good, they make it look really easy, but of course it isn't easy at all.
View ArticleBy: orme
How funny would it have been if he knocked the totem over? I mean, assuming he wasn't squashed by it or anything.
View ArticleBy: Faze
Who are these skinny, daring men, walking slack lines over abysses, flying down mountainsides on cloth wings, climbing cliff faces and trekking across Antarctica? What becomes of their daring? Where...
View ArticleBy: sodium lights the horizon
Obligatory comment about him using a safety line coming from someone who has trouble walking along curbstones without twisting his ankle. But... isn't that too tight to be a slackline?
View ArticleBy: Jilder
Isn't the technical term for this type of athlete 'mad bastard'? Tasmanian. Tasmania produces an astonishingly large amount of outta-the-mainstream crazy bastards than its wee population suggests....
View ArticleBy: Dr Dracator
It looks like he needs to make several attempts before getting it right, isn't this something you could comfortably practice in some less deranged setting? I would expect he would be 110% certain of...
View ArticleBy: bicyclefish
This conversation leads me to consider the perfect stillness with which I am presently balanced, ass-down, on my futon.
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