Ryan Stuart, explore's gear editor
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The organized slackliner
zoomSlacklining is tightrope walking on climbing webbing. In the past, pumped out climbers and bruised and broken paddlers whittled away their downtown by balancing on the webbing strung between two trees. They'd crank it tight with a pulley system or come-along and then they'd mount the web to prove their balancing prowess. It didn't take long for the adrenaline junkies to up the ante, stringing slacklines way off the ground, across 1,000 foot chasms and over crevasses.
Up till now slacklining has been a DIY project, but Mammut is about to change that with the release of a slacklining package. The foundation is a new webbing developed by the rope making engineers at Mammut. It features two different surfaces: smooth for doing tricks on one side, and grippy on the other for those high ball slackline problems. Also included is an easy to use ratchet system, a steel caribiner, anchoring straps and a carrying bag.
Seems like a convenient idea, but doesn't it make the name of the sport somewhat ironic? Can you come up with a better name?
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