River and a bunch of Colorado slackliners spent two days weaving a large neon green and pink square spacenet. In the meantime, however, his slacklining buddy Nicholas Honnold invited him to participate in a giant spacenet weaving party at a park in Boulder. He didn’t really have anywhere to practice weaving or to create anything grand. Now, this was in 2014, and River wasn’t a homeowner. Every single tree net River came across was fascinating and incredible, but it was in Andy Lewis’ epic backyard tree net that River realized the true scale and scope of possibilities that this artform can embody and it was in that net that River became so inspired by the artform that he realized he had to find a way to make this type of art himself. River had been in other tree nets in the past, from the iconic ones in dead trees at the old school slackliner Terry Acomb’s slack ranch in Fruita, Colorado, to the renegade tree nets all over the Boulder, Colorado, highlining areas that slackliners have made using retired climbing rope. Andy Lewis also has in incredible, intricate, 5+ level tree net in his backyard in Moab. The following few years River travelled to Moab each thanksgiving and helped rig the epic spacenet (an impressive task that requires a team of at least 20 people and usually takes 1-2 days depending on conditions and focus level. Being suspended 500’ high in a gigantic neon colored pentagonal spacenet with slackliners highlining all around and base jumpers hucking themselves off the net all around was such a mind-blowing experience River had to have more of it. That was in 2013, and River immediately became a huge fan of the art of net-making. The first net he ever saw was the epic “Thug Mansion” space net created by Andy Lewis, which is rigged annually at Thanksgiving for the GGBY Highline Festival in the Fruit Bowl Highline area in Canyonlands, Moab, Utah. Tree nets and space nets are a really fun part of the slacklining community, and that’s how River got introduced to the concept of making nets out of rope and paracord. During that time, River was an extreme slackliner who actively participated in the slacklining community at the highest level. River got into making tree nets when he lived in Colorado from 2012-2015. Tree Weaves was founded in 2017 by River Echeverria.
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