Some great highline footage in RWP cable cam demo reel

Well, it's been a while since I've posted an update. There are several reasons for this. Foremost, being that about seven weeks ago I broke my 2nd and 3rd metacarpals of my left hand. This puts a damper in your adventure sports life. I've also just graduated from UBC this past semester which kept me busy with "real" responsibilities.

Here is a teaser clip from Reel Water Productions demo real.
At 1:08 is some of the footage that will be used for National Geographic Adventure television show WOW!

Cable Cam Demo Reel from Bryan Smith on Vimeo.

Thanks again to Reel Water Productions for working so hard to get these shots. Check out their new project The Season coming late January.

Architectural Misinterpretation

As promised, this is a follow up to a post on Buildering.net about climbing a new line up the music building.

Video by Warden Films 2009


The video looks spectacular in HD. Click here to view the video in high definition

It was a trip of Mormon proportions

It's 5am and I'm waiting on my porch for Blicker to pick me up. I'm running on one hour of sleep and still drunk. It's time to ride to the airport and make our way to Salt Lake City.

Boarder crossing always go smooth when the driver is a highschool teacher -- little do they know he's the dirtiest-shit-talking-highschool teacher ever to have lived. At least this time The Man didn't think I was in a motorcycle gang, no thanks to the other Robin Avery who probably is! I'm not sure I could have handled that in my zombie-drunken state.

You know someone's an experienced dirtbag when they bring their thermarest to the airport. That was me at 10am at Seatac airport. Snoozing the morning away.

We pick up the rental car in SLC and the shit talking between Stolz and Blicker begins. I will continue to hear this hilarious discourse for the next nine days. There are only two rules: mothers and girlfriends are off limits. Other than that, everything is fair game. By the end of the nine days I spent with these two crazies, every form of both witty and dirty repartee was soon exhausted.

Moab highlines, Indian Creek splitter cracks, cheap beer, missing skin, and burritos were had by all.

Fruit Bowl Highline: helmet cam footage (slackline) from Robin Avery on Vimeo.

Buildering: new line up the music building

Click here to see the HD video on facebook. You'll need a facebook account to access it.
Via: Buildering.net

(p) Hamish Baxter
See: http://www.buildering.net/guidebooks/ubc#route703

I recently sent a new variation of a classic route on campus, the Music building. In the past the chimney was the only practical way of climbing the building, as the crack in the back offered the only protection. However some large air ducting pipes were placed  on the outside of the building in the last few years, offering some new points of protection. Robin Avery and Eddie Rothschild tackled the right rib of the left chimney, i.e. "the arete".

HD video to come soon!

Kudos to the whole crew for a ballsy ascent. Thanks to Hamish Baxter for the photos. Check out his Flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/hbaxter/

(p) Hamish Baxter

(p) Hamish Baxter

Blue Line at Banff Radicals Reels night

There's a short clip of the Blue Line at 1:14 and 5:55

Bryan Smith recently made a short film featuring me highlining the chief. Check it out at the upcoming Radicals Reels Night at the Banff Centre.

The Blue Line

Canada, 2009, 6 minutes

Directed and produced by Bryan Smith

Two giant granite towers separated by 35 metres and a 360-metre ravine – this short film walks a fine line of adrenaline as Robin Avery attempts the crossing.

Finalist in: Best Film on Mountain Sports

Best Short Mountain Film

Click here for more information about the event.

Video from Hevyfest 2009

Photos from HevyFest

On August 1st, 2009 a few hundred slackliners converged on Nexon Beach in Squamish, British Columbia for the second annual HevyFest Slackline Festival. Here are some photos. Thanks to Jim Hegan for taking these photos. Click here for more photos courtesy of Martin Oberg.

Photos: Jim Hegan 2009

Hevyfest