It's another 14x24 Slitherlink! This one was initially constructed while streaming, but I couldn't quite finish it in time. Once again, thanks to TostCronch, Thomas Luo, Yosh, and others for technical and moral support! In particular, Thomas captured my state of mind perfectly with this image during the stream.
This Slalom was designed to emulate the Nikoli style while still keeping the theme. To be honest, I think the grid needs to be a bit larger for the theme to fully take effect, and one small consequence is that I'm not entirely sure if parts of this are actually Nikoli style. But I still had fun making this, and I think I gained some intuition about how to make these in the future. This is probably a bit overclued and on the easy side, but I'd argue that Slalom is one of Nikoli's easiest genres anyway.
Also, some of the implicit requirements for Nikoli puzzles -- e.g. the fact that both ends of a gate need labeling, so you can't label two gates if their endpoints share a cell -- are more annoying than I expected.
