The Island

Taking inspiration from Pylon King and his

secret crag list, I have compiled a list of all

my secret Somerset sends on SlackMap..

As the lines were solo rigged so I have no pictures
of people walking them so over the next 6 months 

I will be re-rigging and collecting all the pictures 

and then relocating them to the true location of each line.. 

Until then it's a secret..

Spacenet #5.. White Net 2 The Redux

After building the Illumineti and giving it a 

test rig between some tree's I quickly realised 

the net was too loose and it would need to have 

static rope inside it to give it more strength and less sag.

Like a sadist I went to work unpicking every single knot,

it took forever but it was a good way to stay busy during

the winter months and it meant I could start again fresh.

For this new project I wanted to remove the glowing cord
 and instead just build a plain white net, but after building it
I decided to use the scraps from my other projects to create
a sacred geometry inspired icosahedron net instead.
I found this image and planned out the amount of
cord needed for a simple interpretation of this design
and luckily I had just enough to make a couple of shapes.

After about a week of overhand knots I have almost
reached a point where I am happy with what I have created..

The next plan is to rig the first uk spacenet 'float-line'
either at the hollow or possibly at a new unrigged location.

Spacenet #4.. THE ILLUMINETI

For a long time I have been sitting on 60m of

glow-in-the-dark paracord, I had purchased it for 

a big spacenet project that I never found the time to start..

I chose to give up on the larger project for now and focus on 

building another triangle spacenet, this way I can rig a float-line 

between them and that's something I have been planning for awhile..

I started off putting 2 stakes in the ground and a hanger onto my shed and

created a triangle with edges around 6m apart, I connected 6x 2.5m spansets

together to create 5m edges which will be replaced with a permanent outer

material as soon as I decide between Amsteel or 5m spansets..

I girth-hitched my paracord along the bottom edge about 5" apart and 

started off by weaving the corners towards the middle, It was the first 

time I have not used a loom and by the half way point I realised i was going

to run out of cord. I pulled the net downwards and managed to save it

but the weave had to change pattern and i was still a meter short..

To fill in the gap in the top point I used 350 glow-in-the-dark paracord,

I also had some unrated glow-cord and with the remaining 350 cord

I created an Illuminati inspired pyramid eye in the center of the net..

This is my 'ILLUMINETI'
And I am unhappy with it so its getting remade immediately..

Island Hunter

For a long time I have known about a possible highline on an island,
and on this island is a sea spire that dreams are made of..

Last year I had almost finalised plans to rig this line but
everything was a bit rushed and unfortunately it all fell
through at the last minute, this year I have more time to plan
this project so hopefully 2017 will be the year.. fingers crossed.

Spacenet #3.. Salvage

The past year I have been slowly picking apart the knots
in my first Spacenet, I planned on using the scraps to weave
something slightly bigger with a hole in the center..

I started off with 2.5m spansets for outers and used a spare
piece of 11mm static rope to create my inner edging for the hole,
I girth hitched all my strands to the center and weaved backwards
into each corner, now I have an exit for a rope swing..

I'm pretty happy with the final result and it was a good chance
 to practice some new knots..

On to the next one..