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BASE jumpers, slackliners in Moab for extreme sports holiday

MOAB, Utah (AP) — Hundreds of BASE jumpers and slackliners have descended on Moab, Utah, this week for holiday events to where they'll walk across webbing stretched between red rock crevices or jump from fixed points like sandstone mesas. A slackline event called GGBY kicked off Tuesday outside Moab at a part of Mineral Canyon known as the Fruit Bowl, where slacklines can be strung closely together and participants walk across them, balancing like a tightrope walk. "It's as close to a church as a lot of us have," said Sonya Iverson, a slackliner from Moab who is helping to organize the event.Read more on NewsOK.com

 

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