Saturday, November 28, 1998

• Scott Balcom
  a 35-year-old rock climber from South Pasadena credited with inventing and refining slack lining.
• Darrin Carter
  one of the pioneers of slack lining and one of the earliest persons to have crossed Yosemite's Lost Arrow Spire.
• Chongo
  a 47-year-old rock climber and slack liner who helped to refine slack lining techniques.
• Patricia Dellert
  the mother of well-known slack liner, Dean Potter. She likens the sport to yoga as a means of achieving a meditative state.
• Dean Potter
  a lean 6-foot-5, 200-pound man with large feet (size 12, although he disdains shoes) and huge hands. A college dropout, he lives year-round in a tent in Yosemite, where he is a member of the park's search and rescue team and earns $100 working two days a week washing windows. He has no running water or phone. His father is a former Army colonel who retired after 27 years and his mother is a nurse.