One hundred feet above and 100 feet out over a ravine off Squaw Creek Road southwest of Edwards on most days you can find professional slackliner Davis Hermes highlining freestyle tricks.

His balancing motions on the line are calculated and his focus is razor sharp as he bounces between the ground below and the clouds above.

The Eagle County resident has been slacklining half his life — for reference, he's only 25 — and there are few days you won't find him balancing high above the sage brush in Colorado's western mountains.

Hermes first saw the sport at the Teva Mountain Games in 2012 — renamed the GoPro Mountain Games in 2013 — and was immediately addicted.

"That was the first year that they had slacklining there," Hermes said. "I was working printing T-shirts at a booth that was the

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