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More slackline anchors 12-Apr-2013 At 10:06:48 AM Trent Williams

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Hi All, I've been a climber for the last 15 years and over the last year been involved a lot in highlining. I've established new highlines and done a bit of lining at Araps. I'm happy to talk to anyone about highlining issues. I've even got a load cell so can share some real world values of longline tensions and highline forces. Just send me an email. I will be down at Araps over the beginning of May, so will be happy to meet anyone there.

In Brisbane the climbers and highliners generally have a good relationship. The slacklining community in Brissy is alive and thriving and is very much pro-active in consulting with climbers (most highliners happen to be climbers anyway). It would be great if something like this could happen in Victoria.

In my experience highliners have as much an appreciation of nature as climbers do. I can't speak for everyone, but in my experience highliners do take seriously the issue of bolt placements and don't spray them willy nilly. Believe it or not there is an ethic to prefer natural anchors over bolts.

I believe the best way forward is to ensure everyone makes an attempt to get good information before going off the handle and to hold back on threats of chopping slacklines! Destroying other peoples property is not an acceptable solution to this issue and could be very dangerous to those concerned. Those of you who have made comments about this may be joking, but others reading this may take your words seriously and think that this is an acceptable form of behavior. Just think about it from your perspective of someone taking a knife to your safety equipment.

I will be catching up with Sam over the next week so will be able to get more info then. As I said before I'm happy to talk to anyone. Just send me an email at post@trent.net and we could go from there.

Happy climbing and slacklining!

Trent