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The Seattle BASE community is really feeling this one. We just had dinner with Josh the other night and he seemed to be doing well. He had hopes for the future and talked of projects he'd like to work on. I miss him already. Josh, brother, we'll see each other again I know it. Until then, keep an eye on us at the local BASE objects. I know you'll be with us there at the exit point, always. Until then dude...

Russell, My advice is to log your BASE jumps. I started out not logging and now I have about 100 jumps that I can't recall details of. I can remember unusually cool jumps, and scary close calls, but I have jumped with a lot of people I can't remember. When I'm flipping through my logbook trying to find soemthing, I always stop on the jump that I PCA'd you on in Twin Falls. Never fails to inspire me and bring a smile to my face. What got me logging again was having some people I know go in. I wished I could go back and read about the jumps we'd done together. If I have any more friends taken by this sport it will be nice to sit on the couch, pop open a beer, read about all the good times we shared, and shed some tears. As for skydiving... that's an entirely different story. Up to you, but I think it's fully worth the time.

I would definitely log that as a BASE jump. I log my rollovers as BASE jumps because oftentimes, they're every bit as dangerous and complicated as a BASE jump. On Spans, rollovers are pretty simple and carefree but on cliffs you need to be very aware of conditions and body position. Most hazards are the same as if you were exiting the cliff with a packed rig. Since the McCutaway involved a rollover from a cliff (which I consider to be a BASE jump) then everything that happens between the time your feet leave the cliff to the time you land, I consider to be a part of that same BASE jump. That's my logic. But, I log my jumps for future reference and my personal enjoyment. I have nothing to prove to anyone except myself so it doesn't matter to me if someone thinks I'm logging my jumps wrong. I think ground launching and paraglider jumps would go into separate logbooks. The ground launching would deserve its own log and paraglider jumps go into my skydiving logbook regardless of the gear used or exit altitude. Just my humble opinion.

At my dropzone one of my buddies, Chris, died when we were towing a canopy behind a truck. The canopy turned and dove into the ground unexpectedly. The canopy was large and docile, still, it happened very fast and he's not with us anymore. It can happen. Be careful.

Now that is truly fascinating. Thanks Nick.

What about the fact that you can buy a pizza in Yosemite valley? What about all the stores and gift shops? The paved streets and parking lots? You know they have a jail in Yosemite national park? What devastation to the park are you going to see with a couple hundred BASE jumpers waling around in comparison to the tens of thousands of hikers and tourists?

This thread is getting to be rather interesting. If we were to submit this application and it was denied, what would be the next step? (Please don't submit an application with an 8 second delay from that exit point!!! You can take a much healthier delay. In fact, a longer delay is safer there. A wingsuit jumper will be quite bothered to be dumping at 8 seconds there. I'm kidding, I realize the application sample is just for an example.)

Oh, don't get me wrong, I'd love to flick it again. BUT I've already been busted there and I'm not sure how they'll treat me if I got busted again. Does anyone know of a case where a person was busted a second time in the Valley? I'd sure hate to spend 90 days in jail if I got tagged again.

A agree with what Jason said. Jason, 20 years, I'm there.

Not going to help you. We will now be taking you to the finest and most treacherous BASE objects Washington has to offer. Be afraid..... be very afraid.... (((sinister evil chuckle)))

Static cling, Tom. Kinkos will hook that up for about $10 probably.

No. Someone told me today that he had done an actual freefall deployment with a packed rig in that range. I haven't asked him about it personally. Oh. That sounds about right. Would you classify a TARD as a freefall?

I didn't see that commercial, but when I came back from Iraq we flew on a chartered aircraft. We flew in uniform and had all our weapons with us too.

Are you referring to the TARD in Washington?

Faber sucks dude, I'll do it. www.jimmyhalliday.com Edit: Faber, totally kidding dude. Jimmy, nice site!

Triple Canopy is another one to look at if you're interested in this type of work. www.triplecanopy.com

I think it's dirt.

I think if one is not in a position financially to visit actual camps, they could visit the holocaust museum in D.C. That may give them at least some idea.

Reverse risers? The same thing as "integrity" risers? If you're BASE jumping then you should be using reverse risers.

It's just a question really. Katie has a pretty burly 6" snag on her endcell topskin that needs to be patched. I have a bunch of black ZP but the snag is on the F111 portion of the cell. I was curious if the F111 can be patched with ZP. We'll probably just run it over to another friends house and he can take care of it. If you're sending a box anyhow, you might substitute a couple shirts for the ZP though. hehe. Got you!

Thanks, now, why?

Can you use F111 to patch a tear in ZP? What about the other way around?

Assuming the following to be true: 1. The rails are situated in a way that a single, well executed attack can prevent the shipping of people by rail to the extermination camp for an extended period of time. 2. The attack, if successful, will save thousand of lives. 3. The parachute technology exists to drop a team of men in a small area to successfully link up and carry out the attack. 4. The mission would be masked by a larger bomber overflight mission to hide the fact that we were being inserted. 5. There was an evasion and egress plan in place with at least some degree of possible success. I would volunteer for that mission. You wouldn't need to carpet bomb a camp. A single precision demolition of a bridge or tunnel could disable a railroad long enough to prevent thousands of casualties. If necessary, you could conduct several identical operations simultaneously. This would save bombs, which were needed much more elsewhere, and it wouldn't take that many troops (in the bigger picture of how many troops were being killed/objective taken). I'm sure if you could get a brief together detailing what was going on in the camps and the benefit to so many people by attacking the railroads, you wouldn't have a hard time finding enough volunteers for that mission. I think that even without requirement #5 you'd get the volunteers you'd need. Any thoughts?

Hehe... it's good to know even GI Joe has to hump all that crap around.

Every time I fly with a rig, I wear it on my back. I've even flown with my BASE rig on my back before and never had a problem. What's that have to do with me? If they want to get "twitchy" then that's all them.