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 | SBI Road Trips 04 -part 2- |
 uncleslackline writes "Dylan has got it going on! Whether standing up straight, squatted down low or surfing the line, he has full control of the perpendicular stance on the line!
Last year we did a slackline demo at the Ford Adventure weekend in Beaver Creek and we got mobbed by kids. This one little blond girl showed up. She was not a natural balance wise but she hung around for hours! She absolutely threw herself at the beginner line. Over and over she tried, she would fall off, she would get right back on. The other kids would have to ask for their turn! I have spotted a lot of kids and most loose interest fairly quickly. Not this little girl, she was so tenacious. Well, she showed up and threw herself at the slackline at TMG this year¡ Her name is Heidi Kloser, and she seems to have slackline in her sights. I can't wait to see her skill level next summer.
At the TMG, Mike Kloser (Hall of fame mountain biker, world renowned adventure racer, Vail Corp. executive, basic hard ass!) asked us to make another trip to Vail, so we did a set up for the Beaver Creek Adventure Weekend the following month. Even though we invited a bunch of people it ended up being only Dylan and I. The Beaver Creek people very generously provided us with a huge two bedroom two bath, lavishly furnished suite. At the time, Dylan had been living out of his van, and I’m usually in the cheapest place in town with five or six other people, so basically you had these two camp ground bums staying in the nicest room in Beaver Creek! It was very cool. The set up and demo were good. We met some good people, and had a great time.
We made one more Colorado trip in 2004, and it’s probably the best story. The story of Shawn and I road tripping to the base jumping festival at the Royal Gorge Bridge.
I received a phone call in late summer, the guy on the phone introduced himself as Hank Caylor. He said he was a base jumper and that he was organizing the annual base jumping festival at the Royal Gorge Bridge. Right away he mentioned that he was friends with Dean Potter. He wanted to set up some highlines at this base jumping festival. My first response was, why not ask Dean to do the rigging? He said “you know Dean is not into the public appearance thing�.
I did not know who this guy was or if he was for real. So I asked around about Hank."
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