 So, what are some tips, what are some things I should focus on? Don't look down. I'm Steve Vazquez with Uprocks and I'm traveling the country in search of adventures within reach of any major city. This is Uprocks GPS. Everyone comes to LA in search of Hollywood or the beaches, but being a local, I know that there's a lot more to LA outside of the city. I'm heading out to San Bernardino to meet with expert slackliner Ray Diaz. He's going to teach me how to slackline, which is a sport that's rising very quickly in popularity. So slacklining is essentially stringing up a piece of like flat rope in between two trees and you just balance and walk across it. What's the difference between highlining and slacklining? So slacklining is off the ground a couple feet and then highlining is obviously up higher where you have to have safety gear. Okay, so for today, what are we going to be doing? We're going to go to Crestline and it's up in the San Bernardino Mountains. There's a cool little bit of highlining that I'll show you up there. Just give you a little taste of what it looks like. Then right next to it is this Mexican restaurant called Hortensias. You can get some lunch and also we're going to go to Deep Creek Hot Springs, which is not too far from there and do some slacklining. It sounds like a good day, man. You ready? Yeah. All right. Let's do it. So you come up here often, then? Yeah. This is probably one of my favorite places because it's super close. Yeah. You know what I mean? Like in an hour and a half, I can be up in the mountains. I don't really know much about this sport. I see hippie in the park, no shoes, but a lot of people do it. I mean, there's lawyers that slackline. There's doctors that slackline. It actually is good for your body. You know, it's good to keep your body in tune with balance and also strengthening your core and legs. All right. I'm coming up. All right, dude. Woohoo. Damn. It is a long way down. I'm not generally, like, afraid of, like, things, but this is genuinely scary. It might not be the climbing type. This is where you come in handy. You get to feed this to me. Okay. Can I do it sitting down? There you go. Thank you. That's crazy. Thanks, dude. Let's go get some food. It's a deep picot spring, San Bernardino Mountains. It'll be a perfect spot for you to learn. I mean, ideally, it's in a park, but this is way better than a park. This is, like, a more epic way to learn how to slackline. It's going to be over water, so it should be pretty chill. It's obviously a lot different terrain than, you know, earlier, and we were in the mountains. Now we're, like, you know, more in the high desert. Are you ready? Yeah. Let's roll. All right. Jeez, like, this landscape is insane. Yeah, this is pretty cool, huh? Sweet. I think it's right over here. All right, dude, let's check it out, since it is a fixed line. So before you get on it, we're going to check the anchors. This is not legit. This is not a safe piece of gear. I think that's supposed to be connected. So we can't do it? It's, like, driving a car with two lug nuts. Yeah. It'll go for a while, but who knows when it'll blow. Yeah. Oh, man, I kind of wanted to try this. Dude, but no worries. I got another spot that I can show you. Sorry it didn't work out at Deep Creek, but I'm stoked that we got you at least on a line and got you that feeling. It's a lot harder than I thought it was going to be, but it's a lot of fun. Thank you so much. I will definitely, definitely do this again. Yeah? Yeah.