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yeah -- but he said cheap! Alta and snowbird are still inexpensive (relative to the industry), but I think colorado has better snow coverage right now, along with Lake Tahoe region. I know steamboat has gotten dumped on!

$525an hour during the day, $600 at night, but am not sure when it reverts back to 525 for those folks that couldn't book time until 2:30am.....

shoot, I've been spending that per season lately.... but I think that is going to slow down now...

the 25th? i would need to look at the calendar, what times do you have?

it is difficult to give you tunnel drills in written form without showing them to you.... there are a whole range of them that work through and progress into each skill area. like I could say open compressed to half bipole, and you would have no idea what I meant and to write it would take a long time (me anyway).... anymore I can't stand going in the tunnel alone (Ron will tell me now that it is valuable time to hone skills while looking at yourself in the mirror, my retort is that I'm not that vain -- but he is right, but I still dont' like it). actaully since I don't live there anymore (still in denial about access to the tunnel I think) I won't get in there much in the near future. anyway, best coaches in my opinion, are Doug, joey, and Shannon, I haven't actauly been in the tunnel with Dave lately, if ever. Niklas Hemlin is good too. but I digress. Make stuff up that makes you move your center point, and not wobble around the tunnel, go in wtih a whole set planned and written on the white board (they are around, just ask), abouve all have fun.

is that 100 per day for coaching or 100 per person?

Never been to Seattle, have you?! Looks like a long lens to me... I'm watching the sky turning pink over the Olympic mountains - to my south - right ow. Wayyyy cool! nope, just took works digital camera and walked out the front door and took the picture. not sure what it was adjusted to though.

and they say it is never sunny in Seattle...

Dave staying very far away from this one....

well, obviously it's all up to the individual, but I know people from teh tunnel with like 15 jumps turning all kinds of points on a six way. Tunnel time is good for focusing on freefall skills and getting immediate feedback. It is, of course, no substitute for the life saving skills that are needed in freefall and landing a canopy.

well you should look in the yellow pages under skydiving, go out to the local DZ, talk to people there about different student programs, make a skydive and decide if it's for you before making it a career decision, then talk to your instructors and find out how they got where they did and what it took. then make up your own mind about it as a career.

the best thing to do is email USPA and ask them if you can get those back issues. The guy that wrote it -- John Eddowes (all around good guy and DZO) has Cross Keys in NJ, you could also ask him if he has drafts of it laying around. (I'm about 95% sure he wrote it). short version, check airspace restrictions, talk to every neighbor around before any hearings, go in with a business plan, talk to every member on the city council/zoning board, and good luck

yup, here ya on that one, I worked for a fortune 2 or 3 company and they had a no bonus policy, they would award stock options though. Although the ones I got this year are still in the negative. I left that company, the one I work for now has a bonus plan that is totally tied on company performance and individual site performance, so it is objective and actually is paid at the end of the Fiscal Year which is March. It will be nice to see that!

There was an excellent series of articles a year or so ago in Parachutist mag about start up of a DZ... the ins and outs. very detailed.... tells you exactly how to make a million $$ as a DZO...

I thought the saying went.... Oklahoma is windy because kansas blows and Texas sucks....

yeah, my rigger is not to happy when it gets done, What really frosts him though is when other riggers do it (he has polaroids).

oh good grief, I was at the manifest checking in once and they handed me a pen, and said I have to look at the computer for a second you might want to fix your paper work, while I look something up....

I was witness to a guy doing it twice in one day, apparently that made a total of 6 very expensive plane rides for the guy.

like middle of knowwhere in FL, up north somewhere, Quade has him linked up higher in this thread.

Dr. Joel does offer a skydiver discount, call and ask.

umm MMMM!! Excuse me MISTER! When exactly, did you move to Oregon or Washington or wherever it is you went? and WHY didn't you say something? goober. so when are you coming back to FL? it's warm here today and blue skies and light breeze. We miss you already Dave. Just quit your job. What about 4-way? arlo Hey, Ms Goober, I did tell you, well I might have said it was a possibility, but it turned into reality. I needed to make the change. Things I will miss about FL all the good friends I made there, year round jumping, and the tunnel. I will miss nothing else about florida

Well if Rainier went, wow, if it went east not so bad, if it went west, it would pretty much wipe out where I'm currently living. It was weird seeing "volcano evacuation route" signs. I'm used to seeing others (like hurricane and such), but Volcano?!?!? BTW, the moon rising behind Rainier tonight was beautiful.

use a tennis ball soaked in lighter fluid, won't go near as far, but looks pretty cool flying through the air. (you may need to make the canon out of soda can's for this to work, or buy larger diameter PVC pipe)

you're going to fly 4 hours in 1 day? Walgreens is close, and they have the BIG bottles of Advil I might also add to what Ron has said.... I have found that the tunnel required more aggressive/larger inputs to do the same move as in freefall. Maybe it's just me, but it seems like I have to exagerate things a bit to get the same result. Not that that's a bad thing......