Hawaii has not only been attracting slackline enthusiasts in recent years, but also filmmakers fascinated by the sport. Oahu, HawaiiĪ post shared by Adrian Flack on at 11:37pm PST You can't bring smokers or charcoal grills to Smith Rock, but you'll be just fine with a Primus outdoor propane stove at the parking lot common area. Set up an outdoor cooking station in The Bivy, as the year-round walk-in camping area at Smith Rock is known. It’s still just a short hike from some of the best climbing in the park, but you’ll feel a little less crowded. Skip the Smith Rock Bivvy site and stay a little further out at Skull Hollow. Just watch out for raptor nesting season- the one time slackliners have to slow their roll at Smith. In addition to the established highlines, there is even an annual highline festival to celebrate the sport and its place in the park. There are over 35 lines set up in various parts of the park, including some strung between Smith’s famous spires. You’ll also find fewer regulations than in Yosemite, the birthplace of slacklining, rangers just as friendly and curious as at Joshua Tree, and a plethora of routes. Once again, where there are climbers, you’ll find slacklines. Joshua Tree National Park, CaliforniaĪ post shared by Poindexter on at 6:20pm PDT So where can you slackline without running into ranger danger? We rounded up some of the most exciting destinations in the U.S., and the best campgrounds nearby. 8 Exciting Slackline Destinations in the U.S. If you’re wondering where to head with your slacklining shoes and webbing next, we’ve got you covered. From Boulder to Whistler to the Smokey Mountains to New England, slackline communities are growing, and towns are getting used to slacklines popping up in parks, at crags, and on the beach. For examples, slacklines are popular enough in Bend, Oregon that the city’s Parks and Rec department has a whole page on their website dedicated to how to properly protect tree bark from hammock and slackline straps But there are plenty of other places you can take your webbing and have a ball. Believe it or not, outdoorsy Portland, Oregon is on the list of cities that ban slacklines in the city limits. Still, some locations ban or regulate the practice. “Slackers,” as they are affectionately known, have bagged high-profile projects from Moab to the Eiffel Tower to the 2012 Superbowl. Since webbing and carabiners first became known as slacklines, they’ve gotten longer and higher, the tricks performed on them fancier and riskier, and the destinations more glam. Over the past few decades, however, the slackline sport (and its taller cousin, highlining), have stepped out from the rock climbing community’s shadow and has come into its own. Slacklining evolved in Yosemite in the 1970s as a way for climbers to keep having fun at camp, in parking lots, at the foot of the crag, and anywhere else they found themselves off the wall.
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