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Trevor

Keys Boogie 2002

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I flew into Miami thurs night and partied with James O in Miami. We drove down friday morning, met up with Steve, Denyse, Rusty, and Jerry from Raeford and made about 6-7 loads.
They were running cross keys' otter and skyvan and an allouette helo that fit 3 jumpers. There were a lot of people there (200+) for just 2 turbine aircraft, so I was more into doing quality jumps than quantity. Rook Nelson and Dave Brown did a great job organizing the freeflyers (no one was left out) and I saw the RW organizing was top notch as well.
It was windy and the landing area was challenging for some jumpers. There were no outs except for the atlantic. Marathon airport has a steady stream of civil air traffic which had to be respected as well. Saturday was the busiest day as many people finished work late friday and came to jump the weekend. Sunday I got 2 hop+pops before the weather rained the day out, but skydivers improvised by going snorkeling, scuba, drinking all day at Key West (45mins away).
Visuals during the jumps were the best I've seen in the states (with all due respect to western ohio :)The hotel had a good enough bar to get everyone soused. The party Saturday night was a blast.
Monday, most people had gone home and there were about 40 of us..enough to run the otter back to back. I made 11 jumps by 2pm and then had to race to miami airport. I got to the check-in counter 20 seconds before my flight closed...(but that last jump was worth it!)
I am definitely making this boogie a regular thing...

-Trevor

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Hey Trevor

I'm glad you made the check-in ...

Thanks for doing the fire-wire before you left ...

The boogie was a blast ... The best views I've ever seen and a really good vibe ... everyone was just into jumping and having fun - very definately a "quality boogie" :)
See you all next year

James

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