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SO...how was skyfest

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No one had any fun.

Does that make you feel any better that you missed it? :P

"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke

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that dog dont hunt kris



Thought I'd try. :D:D I'm stuck in an airport still trying to get home from Skyfest - I need something to amuse myself.

What can I say... great organizing, great vendor fair, free loads, lots of great stuff going on all day and night. I hear there was lots of partying, too, but I was being old and lame and crawling into my comfy bed in my air conditioned hotel room early so I could wake up to kick out some more skydives.

The rumors are true, though. J throws a good boogie. Next time he leaves Texas, though, he needs to leave the heat there. :S
"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke

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Yes, but there's a plane at my gate now, and I have a seat on this particular plane. We're making progress. They say this one is leaving at 11:30 but since it's 11:25 and the previous passengers haven't started unloading I don't think that's happening.... :S

"There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences." -P.J. O'Rourke

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I hope you guys don't have to get up early for work tomorrow. I'm sure you're exhausted about now. I can't sleep on commercial flights. Hopefully you are able to depart soon, but in the meantime, glad you can entertain yourself on here:ph34r:






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Well aside from the massive heat I don't think that awesome could describe it. I wish I had the videos, but the freaking manual import function in Imovie doesn't seem to like me
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No fun at all... REALLY!!! Just the THOUGHT of FREE jumps!!! :ph34r::ph34r::)

For the record I got 3 - NO 4 free jumps!!! 3 sponsored jumps and 1 for my BIRTHDAY!! THANK YOU WEST COAST GIRL! :P


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Yeah, I noticed and I think it's funny!

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I spit coffee when I saw your sigline:D:D

Skyfest was fun-even not jumping I was glad for the chance to meet some great new people, touch base with some folks I rarely get to see, and work on my sunburn.

Heck, the Amazon hug alone was more than worth the time.

You are only as strong as the prey you devour

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I want to hear more about the adventures with the 7 foot banana:ph34r:



pic

There are a few pics on Tony Hathaway's site.
As usual, Tony took Camera-Wizard level pictures. B|

The problem was the spot. First-out was a little before the hangar. If we got out first, it would drop in the lake (or worse, into the crowd). So, we got out last, just before the wingsuiters and it dropped into the trees.

Some day, a hunter will be walking through those trees and see a 7-ft yellow banana face smiling down at him and wet his pants.

Later, Turtle showed up with two new bananas and people started acting freaky.
:D

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I want to hear more about the adventures with the 7 foot banana:ph34r:



pic

There are a few pics on Tony Hathaway's site.
As usual, Tony took Camera-Wizard level pictures. B|

The problem was the spot. First-out was a little before the hangar. If we got out first, it would drop in the lake (or worse, into the crowd). So, we got out last, just before the wingsuiters and it dropped into the trees.

Some day, a hunter will be walking through those trees and see a 7-ft yellow banana face smiling down at him and wet his pants.

Later, Turtle showed up with two new bananas and people started acting freaky.
:D


I'm NOT convinced it was the banannas that did that. I think the youngins will have to wait until next year to fly - can anyone say 2 way bananna load? Thta sounds WRONG!
I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun

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I think the youngins will have to wait until next year to fly - can anyone say 2 way bananna load? Thta sounds WRONG!



On Saturday, the hoop dive grew to 15 quickly. A guy walked up and handed me 8 tickets. We split it into 2 hoop groups.


On the next jump, same thing. Our raft group grew to 16, so we decided to split it into 2 groups. We launched two rafts in sequence.

[url "http://www.perrismedia.com/June%207th/Raft%20Jump/slides/IMG_9902_raw.html">raft pic by Cajones

I was on the ground trying to figure out a way to fly them next to each other. It would be an awesome pic.
At some point, I determined it to be a really bad idea.
:D

However, I think I could engineer a double-banana jump with the right crew. I got the idea while thinking through a different launch.

I don't think most of that craziness would have worked without the right crew.

Mike Wolfe is a raft pro. Roy Harper is just an excellent all-around flyer. Janine helped control the exits for me.

All week, I was depending on Garth to fly any slot like a rock star. He is in a lot of pics.

I got huge amounts of help from the Muff Brothers and Hellfish.

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Just the video from my canopy control class



Perhaps ye should invest in a bit of botanical avoidance lessons.
I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun

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I figured that taking out the showerhouse is a quick way to become very unpopular. I should have sunk it in more andf landed on the path, but I really had to go to the bathroom. Now where in Andrew with the picture that he took
Divot your source for all things Hillbilly.
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What about from the ceremony? :)



The SCR Ceremony was pretty impressive. I had not seen one in several years, and it's good to see that the traditions are being upheld. There were quire a few recipients, and they were properly abused. There was one hell of a lot of beer to pour. I was surprised that there were only a few SCR holders to do the pouring.

It was a really good boogie. No matter what you have heard about the heat, it was hotter than that.:S

Kevin K.
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Dude, you are so awesome...
Can I be on your ash jump ?

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