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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Geez Chris, don't you have a bi-yearly entreaty about non-climbing threads? Perhaps you should say non-climbing, slacklining, base-jumping threads. Looks cool though.
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Hardman Knott
Gym climber
Muir Woods National Monument, Mill Valley, Ca
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Slakkey
Trad climber
From a Quiet Place by the Lake
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Nothing like a little walk in the park.
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Cpt0bvi0u5
Gym climber
San Diego CA
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Dean is a crazy man. Major respect
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10b4me
Ice climber
Rustys Saloon
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man, that is crazy
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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.....Gulp.........
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labrat
Trad climber
Nevada, CA
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I agree about his guts but how is this different than base jumping off El Cap?
Erik
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blahblah
Gym climber
Boulder
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I don't know enough about slacklining to know how impressive this is (I am super impressed by his and others high level free soling, so I don't mean to come across as a hater/belittler. In fact, I almost literally cannot F'n believe what top level soloers do--all I can conclude is they are madmen or just very much better climbers than I can really comprehend).
But haven't there been circus acts where people do this sort of stuff (rope walking) for centuries, every day? What am I missing?
Is it just that a slackline is much tougher than the old fashioned "tight rope"?
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mr-p
Trad climber
Invisible City
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to pretend one can cheat death indefinitely is just that: a pretension.
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altieboo
Boulder climber
Livermore, Ca
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Gnarly! That is so crazy!
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graham
Social climber
Ventura, California
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God that’s bad ass…
He needs some Jeans that don't bind in his crotch so much. Looks like it could throw him off, yikes!
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F10
Trad climber
e350
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WOW !!!
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AM
climber
DLFA
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But haven't there been circus acts where people do this sort of stuff (rope walking) for centuries, every day?
Really? 2000+ feet above the valley floor? Without harness, without safety net?
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socalbolter
Sport climber
Silverado, CA
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Regarding AM's post: after a certain distance height doesn't really matter any more in regards to consequences. Many of the commercial high-wire acts are still facing probable death if they blow it.
That said, this seems pretty impressive to me. Primarily due to the confidence required to step out onto the line and do it. The ability to shut off your mind's focus regarding the consequeces of failure and focus on the task at hand make this (and high-end free solos) standout.
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Mark Hudon
Trad climber
Hood River, OR
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I agree about his guts but how is this different than base jumping off El Cap?
It would be base jumping without a parachute as I don't see him wearing anything other than jeans.
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Josh Nash
Social climber
riverbank ca
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Doing stunts like that and still can't afford a belt.
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ninjah
Big Wall climber
a van down by the river
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&#$@!#%#$%^*%^(&^%&#@#@ YOU a$$WHOLE, THAT DUDES DONE TONS, more than most and climbing the Arch is no sin, only to the stupied sheep minds like yours that are shackled by society!
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Prod
Trad climber
A place w/o Avitars apparently
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These posts are funny in comparison to the Prana posts.
Prod.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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Yes, people have done spectacular long walks 500-1800' above the ground for a long time, particularly in Europe. The distinction being those were all done on high/tightwires with poles.
"slackline is much tougher than the old fashioned 'tight rope'?
Mainly it's different. Different walking media - webbing, 11mm rope, light chain, heavy chain, aluminum wire, light steel wire, heavy steel cable - they all have very different feels, idiosyncracies, and body adjustment requirements to master. The degree of tension or tightness also radically changes the experience of all those media.
The biggest difference between walking something short, light and loose vs. long, heavy and tight is that the latter is relatively immune to the effects of your body weight - by that I mean the weight of your body is not enough to force it into a stable 'resting state' - it just slowly 'floats' around in some diameter circle dependent on length, tension and weight. The upshot of that is now you not only have to balance and walk it, you also have to 'ride' it at the same time as it floats around. That's one of the reasons wire walkers use a pole - its weighted, drooping ends significantly lower your center of gravity and makes the actual balancing / standing part much easier so you can concentrate on the walking / 'riding' part.
Perceptions of 'difficulty' also have a lot to do with what you learn and get used to. I've walked heavily cranked-down dynamic and static 11mm ropes for the past thirty three years and that's normal to me. Webbing slacklines to me are sloppy messes where you spend a lot of time and energy simply keeping the webbing under you and that's a lot less fun for me than tighter media. But for pure 'difficulty' I'd say a solidly cranked-down, guyed, and essentially rigid, heavy steel cable - without a pole - is by far the most 'pure', challenging, and unforgiving walking experience you can have.
And assuming someone has mastered walking - regardless of the media - doing it high up and untethered (I like to call it 'tradlining') is no different an exercise in mental and emotional control than soloing in rock climbing - commitment pegged at 100% and the margin of error is zero. Oh, and the odds of snagging the webbing on falling: very high, but there's still no guarantee regardless of who's doing the walk.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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We may have to put ninjah down as "undecided".
I was wondering about the thread title, though - "Solo Slackline". Is there any other kind of slacklining? Tandem? Human pyramids? Aerialists do things like that. Maybe Chris meant "untethered slackline"? Except the slackline by definition is always tethered - it's the slackliner (the "slacker"?) who may or may not be.
Verb: To slackline
Noun: Slackline (taut rope suspended over gulf)
Noun (transitive): Slackliner/slacker? (With adjectives, e.g. untethered, as needed.)
What is the proper noun to use for someone who slacklines? I see that Joseph suggests that if untethered, it be called tradlining.
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the Fet
Supercaliyosemistic climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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Bitchin.
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Gene
climber
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I see that the slackline crowd has another meaning of 'solo.' What do they call a walk with a safety connected to the line?
gm
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ninjah
Big Wall climber
a van down by the river
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ok I'm sorry, didn't mean to get so upset:) IT just sounds like the onx is a hater, and i hate that, because i love everyone! :)
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blahblah
Gym climber
Boulder
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healyje--thanks for the info; kind of rare to get a serious response to a serious question anymore!!
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matty
climber
po-dunk
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hoochie mamma, yikes!
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Slakkey
Trad climber
From a Quiet Place by the Lake
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I was just looking at this thread again and I thought the same thing great shot of El Cap
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Onyx, watch out , you're making real sense and on ST no less.
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Mighty Hiker
Social climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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When one of the no-name Soviet leaders (Andropov? Chernenko?) died in the mid-1980s, our local tabloid had the giant headline "TOP RED DEAD!!!" Presumably if the tabloids cover this, their title will be something subtle like "DAFT ON TAFT!!!"
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JuanDeFuca
Big Wall climber
Stoney Point
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What a gay.
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rwedgee
Ice climber
canyon country,CA
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To fall off you really have to blow it several times; you have to fall, then you have to fall "incorrectly" to blow your chance at catching the line, then you have to blow the catch, assuming you snagged it on the way down. What could possibly go wrong? Certainly wouldn't find me doing that crazyness.
By the way I hate climbing in jeans. Unless it's an offwidth.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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"What could possibly go wrong?"
Do it enough years and you'd be astounded by the ways it can go wrong. I've done it enough so that at various times an 11mm rope felt like a sidewalk - and still got f#cked in some curious and curiouser ways in controlled and uncontrolled dismounts from standing to hanging (I normally walk with my rope at about 9').
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morphus
Mountain climber
Angleland
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did he lay off the weed for this one?
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Bldrjac
Ice climber
Boulder
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OK.........nice stunt. And what does this have to do with climbing?
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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I read the interesting interview with the dude who kayaked over the 186ft. waterfall. He went on and on and on about how he only did it for personal reasons. Funny, in congratulating his crew it became evident that 75% of them were there for media reasons. Solo slack lining seems to get the same kind of treatment. Bachar and Croft always forgot to bring the camera team along- oh, but that's that boring thing called climbing.
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steelmnkey
climber
Vision man...ya gotta have vision...
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"Bachar and Croft always forgot to bring the camera team along"
Bwa-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha.
Amen, brutha.
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Maysho
climber
Truckee, CA
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Well it is a great photo. I have a lot of respect for Dean, for various visionary climbs but mostly from what he did on Fitzroty solo, no photogs, no staging etc.
As said previously, most slackline falls result in a catch with the hands, rarely do they blow that and fall onto the leash. And, not to disparage a man and the need to liven up the photo shoot for his lively-hood, but as the dad of Braden, who is one of the top slack line walkers around, I have to say I am not super psyched to see the promotion of "leashless" walking as some sort of penultimate achievement.
So far Braden has been in some films and photo shoots because of his ability to step out on the highest and longest lines with a calm, smooth, focused style, his use of the leash does not detract from the beauty and boldness of his walks. Of course I hope he continues to practice his art that way, and of course as all fathers of 26 year olds, I have next to no influence on how he does his thing.
I am grateful that he makes a great living rigging and does not need to make money from posing for photos.
Just last night I had dinner with a group of high school seniors after one of our enviro ed programs, a few of the boys are into slack-lining. When I ponder all types of "after the fact" staged solo photo shoots, or even something like this where a bunch of practice goes into getting that one "bold" shot, I can't help but be concerned about the influence such things have on the 17 year old dudes.
I tell them learn to walk smooth and keep the leash!
Peter
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mark miller
Social climber
Reno
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Yahoo Peter.....
Donini you're an Icon, but your harsh analysis of Dean seems a little over the top. Graham get that boy hooked up with some new, better fitting jeans.
Serious crazy photo, I don't go to the edge w/o a rope. 32 years of cragging and still able to enjoy it when I can get the time, Play safe. There aren't any redo's out there folks.
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TitaniumTendons
Trad climber
LA, CA
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"Bachar and Croft always forgot to bring the camera team along"
I wonder how long the media had to hide in his backyard to get some of these shots . . .
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03udLvtNR6Y
It's funny people get so revved up about this. If he enjoys it, who cares? I think one of the most important elements of climbing is self-confidence- putting yourself into a situation with potentially dangerous consequences because you have confidence in your skills and abilities to handle that situation. The majority of climbers have put themselves into a situation where a single mistake could mean, if not death, than certainly serious injury. Isn't that why so many trad climbers give gym climbers, sport climbers, and boulderers so much sh#t? They've taken away a good portion of the risk and the adventure, which is the whole point for a lot of us. I see this as the same expression of that ideal, just in a different medium.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Mark, I don't think I mentioned Dean specifically. He's a great climber. I'm talking about how anything radical in "extreme sports" seems to always get beaucoup media coverage while most climbing solos are done for personal reasons sans camera . I was on the jury at the last Banff Film Festival. We all got sick of the ski porn shows. Skier after skier after skier flying off of cornices and doing flips or jumping off of cliffs. Great camera action but, after a while, it was like watching someone do pull ups.
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Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
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I just hope that DP doesn't try to take over the Extreme Ironing guys.
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apogee
climber
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Beautiful shot, esp. with EC in the background. Unbelievably ballsy, confident, and skilled, and something I will never do.
I just don't get much wood from slacklining, though. Aside from the beautiful backdrops, it just leaves me cold as compared to climbing action (i.e. Mescalito free attempts). Potter inspires me most when he is climbing something on the edge and in good style, and less so when his (or anyone elses) efforts are wrapped up in some woo-woo spiritual stuff while doing something in questionable style (i.e. Delicate Arch).
Slacklining is one of the least interesting aspects of climbing (if one can include it there), in my book. At some point, like Donini said,
"Great camera action but, after a while, it was like watching someone do pull ups."
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fletch lives
Social climber
south lake tahoe
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I guess that he has got to make money somehow. It sure would be sad if he died..
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ryankelly
Trad climber
calistoga, ca
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Nice highline!
That looks like fun!!!!!!!!!!
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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When I'd done it fairly steady a decade or so it got both deeply meditative on one hand and fairly boring on the other, then again, I'm pretty ADHD. But the one-dimensionality of it felt very limiting. Given I bounced on mine a lot I thought maybe trampoline would be interesting next step for the 2-dimensionality of the surface you work with. After a few years or so I was juggling / passing pins, working out two-person passing routines, playing guitar on it, jumping between two of them, doing it during 50-60kt gales coming in off Lake Michigan, etc., etc.
I never had any desire or need to push it into the higher mind-f#ck realm, partly because that's pretty much all there is to it - another level of mind control. Nothing really changes about the walking at all; that, and mind control doesn't really appeal to my ADHD / OCD side. In the end I still do it to keep an edge and for meditation, but it just falls short for me on the curiosty front. For awhile when I was younger I did look into bigger wire walks, but then working with a pole makes the walking part mindlessly easy and so dims the whole balancing art thing down to where, again, it's more just a matter of mind control and stamina.
So for me it's been a completely worthy, if somewhat limited, adventure and skill to learn. And while I personally find the folks pushing tricks such as flips to be way more interesting, I still say more power to any folks who take it to the next level of emotional and mental control; just like high-level free soloing, it's a demanding and burly business that attracts a rare breed of cat.
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Klimmer
Mountain climber
San Diego
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Very impressive. I'm way impressed what we humans can do at times. Dean Potter blows me away for sure. Especially his solo climbing with BASE jump gear. That to me is just a very cool combo. Wow!
I know I will never do such a stunt. I love life, my wife and kids.
Be careful Dean. I would still be impressed if you wore a leash.
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Cpt0bvi0u5
Gym climber
San Diego CA
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Onyx your definitely a Big Man. Even if you win your argument on the internet your still f***ing stupid
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Porkchop_express
Trad climber
the base of the Shawangunk Ridge
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I think the concept of winning and argument on the internet is a fallacy to begin with...
Looks like fun (what DP is doing)...but for all the effort to rig something like that I would rather just keep one strung up somewhere for entertainment and light training than as an end in itself. Unless someone else set one up and invited me to try it and so on...
Inasmuch as it is easy to criticize Dean and those like him, how many of us would really refuse the opportunity to do something like that for a decent paycheck? I would like to say that I could but even if I did turn that down, it wouldn't be without a struggle. Idealism is rarely so black and white.
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Studly
Trad climber
WA
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Dean Potter functions at a level in climbing and I am sure slack lining that very few of us can even imagine. Yeah, he might have blown it with the Delicate Arch stunt, and i'm sure he knows it by now, and the repercussions have not been pleasant. I don't know him but really doubt he did it to be maliscious. I think its time we let the Arch thing go.
Give him a break, one of the best climbers ever, he gets it done.
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healyje
Trad climber
Portland, Oregon
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"how many of us would really refuse the opportunity to do something like that for a decent paycheck?"
Having to do it [for money] and wanting to do it are two vastly different deals and the ability to do such feats on-demand, at a specific, pre-arranged time and place, is what separates the enthralled from professionals. I can't say there are any activities I do that involve risk where I wouldn't want the freedom to just walk away when I arrived on the scene and didn't feel the right vibe - unlike, say a circus performers, motorcycle show jumpers, someone making commitments to others who will show up with media gear, or really anyone who's decided such activities are part of how they will generate income. I decided long, long ago that climbing and like activities were way too personal to me to use them for income, but that's just me, more power to those who choose a different path...
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BASE104
climber
An Oil Field
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I have said this before, and I will say it again..
Why does anyone care what motivates him? It is his own gig. If he is having fun and not hurting anyone, then I don't see what the problem is.
He is morphing climbing/BASE/slacklining all together. I think that it is pretty cool. Climbing and jumping have been together since the early eighties, but not at the same time...
And trying to throw slander at it is silly. BASE always felt a lot like soloing to me. You get totally zoned and the head clears entirely to the moment. Total clarity, however fleeting, is a powerful feeling.
M Herndon
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tinker b
Gym climber
my mom
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amazing.
it is not my style to get out there for a photo shoot, but i like looking at the pretty pictures. it is too bad that there are so many people who are so convinced that what they like and how they do it is how the rest of world should behave. climbers (and slackliners/ basejumpers/ kayakers/ ect...) are individuals. of course we will have different likes and dislikes ways of being. keeping perspective, looking outside our personal bubble is always important, but being ourselves, following our own dreams, and telling our own stories is essential.
i love it when people push the limits of what i have perceived is possible. it expands my reality, and pushes what i can do, regardless of the medium.
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Betelnut
Mountain climber
No. California
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Dumb
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Bullwinkle
Boulder climber
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bachar and croft forgot the camera team? Wrong, or are all of my soloing photos of yabo and bachar and long fake? Oh and what about that great photo of croft soloing the last pitch of the rostrum? Yeah what a bunch of photo whores. DF
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Ditto on the back in the day camera team comment. Somehow I remember Bachar making into national network programs more than once.
And why not? Doing what you love for a living is a pretty seductive goal.
and adrenaline....the most dangerous and addictive drug you can have legally from within.
Same as it ever was,,,but different
Peace
Karl
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Rankin
climber
North Carolina
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What a stupid way to die.
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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"What a stupid way to die."
Perhaps in a rational, linear, newtonian model of reality, that would be the case, but...
Some how the Crofts, Bachars, and Potters of the world are not found dying in front of the camera nor in the middle of some bold solo.
Somehow, Reality/God/??? seems to protect the bold and gifted savants during the intensity of their passion*
*at least for the most part, exceptions are noted but rare.
Who knows why it works that way but Potter should be a lot more scared when he gets in a car, motorcycle, or relationship.
Peace
Karl
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bachar
Gym climber
Mammoth Lakes, CA
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A picture is worth a thousand words.
Bad Azzzzzzzzz Dean !!!
Cheers, JB
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hoipolloi
climber
A friends backyard with the neighbors wifi
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what is the 100,000lbs line that he uses? How does he make that?
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deuce4
climber
Hobart, Australia
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That boy lives for maximum intensity.
Dean's living it like no one else.
These incredible moments have nothing whatsoever to do with spectator (or pundit) opinions.
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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My prediction (from Dean's sheepish look)...
This isn't the only sick and scenic slackline he's got in mind for this season.
Check out his blog, linked by the OP. Interesting stuff. Much Respect.
Peace
Karl
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Largo
Sport climber
Venice, Ca
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Someone wrote: "Wait... has he done anything, really?"
Is this a credible question?
Absolutely not.
Consider Dean's recent season in Patagonia, including solo ascents (if I remember correctly) of Cerro Torre and Fitzroy.
A psychologist or mythologist would have a field day with the firestorm that Dean kicks up with his every move. He's the ultimate, modern day, adventure sports anti-hero.
Fact is, adventure sports are way behind the curve per the old "hero" archetype (pure, flawless, humble, totally self contained and totally nonexistant), and the anti hoero, the later being far more interesting and having the added advantage of being real, not imagined.
The old "hero," to which Dean is always being measured, is a fictionalized character out of Outside Magazine print ads and Herzog's Annapurna, characterizations fashioned out of whole cloth by French dreamers and Manhattan ad men (stealing from the old Greek model). Better get used to the anti-hero, who is an actual person - perhaps not a great one, but someone with hopes and drives and powerful regrets — you know, all the messy stuff us real people always have.
Dean's at the top of the game in three disciplines. You don't have to like or respect him, or care what the hell he does; but questioning his prowess or murdering his character is not serious inquiry. It's a faux high-ground troll.
Feel free to correct me so long as you've never backed off a big wall, gotten divorced or spit up on bad terms, blamed others for your woes, argued with your kids, really lost your temper, cheated on your taxes or your wife or your boss, drank or smoked way too much, lied, been vain, smug, ritious, bitter, or (fill in the blank).
JL
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Gimp
Trad climber
Grand Junction
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Read Marko Prezelj's article in Alpinist 21 and you can't help but appreciate his understated admiration for Dean's abilities.
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smith curry
climber
nashville,TN
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Largo got to it before I could: why does this bother people so much? If you read the Prana blog too: People get PISSED. It was the same way with Dano... Interesting, new, scary sh#t gets people angry even if it's much safer than Himalayan alpinism. Climbers can be such a conservative, scared bunch of backbiters that it's a little embarrassing.
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nature
climber
Tucson, AZ
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wow.... cool.
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Watusi
Social climber
Newport, OR
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I think this is absolutely rad!! I used to do some slacklining myself and know what this entails...As to all the griping being done over this, (and the Delicate Arch Stunt, of which I am uninformed) I think it inane. This guy is just Mega-Badass (I just also finished watching his solo, including much free-solo, ascent of the nose.)People of less ability seem to always be gettig all over other people's sh#t. Just look at all the guff Michael Reardon was getting, May he rest in peace.
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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I think we should always take care with how quickly we're willing to take a guy (who was widely respected as hero not long ago) and throw him under the bus after an unpopular misjudgment or a few human foibles.
The guy has done rad stuff and taken new visions to things we never thought of before (freesoloing 5.13 with a base rig on his back!)
He may be human but he's got some superhuman going for him too. Which irritates us more?
It's not really ego. We all have one but Dean is not a smack-down, I'm-the-baddest-dude kind of chest-puffer. So what's the beef?
If anything he even has a bit of "shy" in him, which makes it easier for the crowd to outcaste him.
Somebody sent me a birthday card that read "The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well"
I think it could well add, "if you think you are normal, you don't know yourself either."
So I suggest that we consider the ethic of judging others by the standard we would hope to be judged by ourselves.
Peace
Karl
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bubble boy
Big Wall climber
T100
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Props to Dean - especially for not getting involved in all this schoolyard banter - he's probably out climbing......
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GDavis
Trad climber
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someone stole the bottom half of deans pants.
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Mimi
climber
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Dean asked permission to climb Delicate Arch and received it from the Super of the Park. The Park Service changed the rules after he climbed it. Patagonia should have made this clear before dropping him and the other climbers they sponsored. Prana picked Dean up to his benefit.
My only worries about Dean is that he's taking huge risks and I'd hate to see anything happen to him. We've lost enough bright souls lately.
Onyx, you continue to be a flaming twerp while Dean is a nice and pleasant man.
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Bullwinkle
Boulder climber
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mimi you don't know what you're talking about, it didn't happen that way.
Oink, just another hater without the balls to use it's real name, so sad but what do you expect from a nonclimber. . .your mommie is calling you Oink, your nappie is full and she wants to change it, run along now as you really are stinking up the room. . .oh, and stop playing on the internet machine. . .
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GDavis
Trad climber
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Deans a bad ass dude, kind of retarded that people won't get off his nuts about the delicate arch issue. He soloed el cap and half dome in a day... @_@
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Mimi
climber
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So, Dean, what's your version???
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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bitches best respect.
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Blitzo
Social climber
Earth
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Circus tricks. Woopie-Doo!!!!
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Not interested.
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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I wanna know what that thing hanging off his back is? Could he be leashless but wired for sound (Not that there's anything wrong with that) Just that Dean is so Low tech, it would be funny if he was transmitting grunts and such to cameras on the ri.
Edit, looks like he has headphones on too. MP3 player? What's on the playlist?
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Blitzo
Social climber
Earth
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Nice one, Dave!
We all know that Dean is Rad (and A nice fella). Why wouldn't he make it?
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pedge
Trad climber
SW
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The arch was a mistake because of access issues, sure. I don't understand though, why anyone would criticize him for this sort of thing, or anyone for engaging in dangerous stunts. If he isn't hurting anyone or endangering access, its only his business, and if he feels comfortable making some money off a stunt, why would anyone care. It might not be my choice, but thats no reason to criticize him for his choice.
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Blitzo
Social climber
Earth
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I'll bet Al Dude isn't impressed!
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the Fet
Supercaliyosemistic climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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It's always funny when rock climbers condemn someone for doing something they consider dangerous. Helllooo!!?!?! You know 99% of the world thinks your nuts for climbing at all. Everyone can make their own decisions about what level of danger is acceptable to them.
Stunts like this are usually mostly because the person wants to do them and feels confident they can pull it off. Getting some publicity out of it is a bonus, it's not like he or any other climber is making millions of it and it really doing it for the money. Is it worth it to risk your life so you can live like a dirtbag? It is if that's what you want to do.
This is just another goal which makes life more rewarding. Having the idea, scoping out the location, setting it up, stepping onto it, walking it the first time the whole way, going leashless, etc. Setting a goal and then enjoying the journey to complete the goal. That is the meaning of it all. You might not appreciate what he's doing, but you should let it inspire you to try for your goals whatever they may be and whatever fits with your unique talents.
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Nefarius
Big Wall climber
Fresno
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I'll second what Dean said... That's not the way the Delicate Arch thing happened.
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aldude
climber
Monument Manor
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You're wrong Billy....leashless is balls out!! Remember that Darrin dude leashless on Lost Arrow highline -Cowabunga!!
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spyork
Social climber
A prison of my own creation
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I run a 50 foot lowline in my backyard and mess around and juggle. To walk a line that high with no leash takes a huge amount of confidence and Huevos Grandes, IMO. No matter what the guy's reasons are, I gotta respect the endeavor.
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ninjah
Big Wall climber
a van down by the river
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True JL you have a way with words, just what I wanted to say to that hater onyx, thanx your anti hero yourself john! Big ups to you and dean for keeping it real.
And to hoipolloi. I think dean told me that it's sailing line? Hard to walk but worth the effort on a high line ( dean like good odds, 10 to 1 safety ratio, just to be safe, or something?)
Not hateing ninjah
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jhog
climber
south lake tahoe
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Jun 11, 2009 - 12:57am PT
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Everyone hear who like this must see the movie Man On Wire. Excellent film!
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