![]() ![]() This year GGBY also featured spacenets, which are aerial hammocks weaved together in a spider-web-like fashion with synthetic steel and paracord. First-timers could partake in the Introduction to Highline workshop taught by Louie Wray, who said that helping others overcome fears to step onto their first highline was a fun and rewarding job. Lines were shorter and ideal for beginners who ventured to the other side of the canyon. The most daunting of the lines was estimated to be 900 meters long, more than half a mile, which allowed it to lay claim to being the longest highline in the U.S. Participants of all skill levels could choose from approximately 15 highlines on which to walk. This year marks the 11th year of GGBY, put on by Slackline U.S., a nonprofit organization. It is managed entirely on volunteered time and gear provided by professional riggers and locals. The celebration has since expanded into an international gathering of highliners, known as Gobble Gobble Bitches Yeah (GGBY). They came to celebrate the sport and their own highly unique highlining community. More than a decade ago, a small group of highliners began an informal holiday tradition of gathering at the Fruit Bowl during the week of Thanksgiving. Participants use a harness to safely tether themselves to the webbing in case of a fall, known as a “whip.” At the Fruit Bowl, steel bolts are used as anchors to suspend the webbing from one cliff edge to the other. Highlines, unlike slacklines, are rigged 100 feet or more above the ground with intense exposure. Keen concentration and balance is necessary, but for highliners specifically, possessing the ability to mitigate fear is vital. It is as vast as it is deep and although the canyon’s red walls are as visually inspiring as any in the world, the area has been relatively unknown thanks to its ultra remote location in Mineral Bottom.įor those undeterred by the effort to get there, the Fruit Bowl has become well known to a global community of people interested in one particular activity: highlining.īorn from slacklining, both activities require the participant to sit, stand and walk on one-inch nylon webbing. Deep in the heart of Moab’s share of the Colorado Plateau lies a canyon known as the Fruit Bowl. ![]()
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