The Stranger is running an article on the emerging slackline debacle that kicked off a week or so ago when a security officer stopped me in Cal Anderson park and insisted slacklining was illegal. I posted the details previously, and to briefly summarize: the police were called, slacklining is not illegal, does not (in [...]

After the whole fully-public ordeal with the legalization of slackline in Seattle, many people have written to me privately asking for suggestions or sharing of whatever resources I may have in order to assist them in pursuing a similar course of action in their own communities. Unfortunately some of you are up against a [...]

I’ve written about some access issues and confusion with parks employees in Seattle as long ago as 2009. This has mostly been an isolated issue. In the last three weeks, several people from our community have been ejected from parks around Washington.

On July 24, 2011, while slacklining at Cal Anderson park, I had [...]

Solutions
I am attempting to work with Parks & Rec to come to a mutually beneficial access policy.  As I’ve stated below slacklining in Seattle is totally legal (when done responsibly).
That said, it seems a very few employees of the Parks dept may see things another way, and it would be nice to have an official [...]

The clear winner for tree padding, in my book, is a bath towel. You can buy long and fluffy bath towels for $1-2 at a thrift store and cut them into 4″x50″ (approx) strips. These wrap nicely around a tree, provide lots of padding, pack up in your gear bag without taking much [...]