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Deuce

Herc Boogie, random pics. Hey Schwede!

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I'm cleaning up my files before posting stuff to my shutterfly site, and wanted to share some of these.

I must say, the organization of the boogie was utterly amazing. The cooperation between the volunteer organizers and the military was a model of efficiency and civility. One cool thing was that since we were "military" jumping we could jump through a completely closed cloud deck. I mean, no ground anywhere to be seen. The bottom of the deck had to be above 4500 feet, and we were usually right above the DZ. I had only one out landing, and we were way the f out. Nice chance to chat with John LeBlanc as we walked back.

Anyhow, about the volunteers who make this whole thing happen.

Thank you.

The food was great, the parties were epic, and the jumping and new friendship memories will last a lifetime.

I am actively pursuing the rights to distribute Salmiaki in the United States. :P

One of these pics is of Schwede on the mixed team of Markku's Finnish supersonic base team and Gareth's international men and women from U.N.C.L.E. It was the second to last jump of the boogie, my 32nd and last for Herc Boogie 2004.

I'll be putting more up here as I go through them, and I should have the whole thing up sometime tomorrow.

:)

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Deuce,

Perhaps it's my vision, but in this picture is the skydiver in orange and white (blue helmet) minus his/her leg(s)?

ltdiver



Nah, the Herc inspires great bouts of creativity in people who originally intend to exit stable, but get inspired to dabble in new disciplines like sit flying and freestyle.

I would say that the skydiver in orange and white was simply inspired by the super-terminal airspeed of the herc.

Most of the organizers discouraged such creativity, but as a camera flier, I found it quite fascinating. So fascinating, in fact, I was inspired twice to do unique camera flights of my own creation!

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where was this boogie at? in that boy-aint-right pic, is the middle guy chris debar?



Chris was there but don't ask him about his chest first landing which added some green colour to his white jumpsuit! B| - Do ask him about the 28 way orgasm jump though. :$:D
I'm drunk, you're drunk, lets go back to mine....

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Deuce, some pics of you (I believe) here......
Craig's site I think.
http://www.poxon.org/craig/skydive/images/wingsuit/hercules2004/index.html#1
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Deuce,

Perhaps it's my vision, but in this picture is the skydiver in orange and white (blue helmet) minus his/her leg(s)?

ltdiver



I doubt it. That's Tom Steiro, an SAS captain from Norway I believe. His jumpsuit legs are exactly the same color as the bottom of the C-130 in that shot. If you look closely, you can see them.

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Hi JP, Couldn't you have put a more nicer pic of me?? ;) Yes I only made TWO skydives during the whole boogie as I had to keep the Kindergarten in place.. Nice to have met you and all the rest of the guest to our little boogie (seems to be the 2nd largest boogie in the world this year...more then 1100 people on site..)..

C U NEXT TIME????
Schwede
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