smkjumper

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Gear

  • Main Canopy Size
    220
  • Reserve Canopy Size
    218
  • AAD
    Cypres

Jump Profile

  • Home DZ
    Cline Falls
  • License
    C
  • License Number
    32036
  • Licensing Organization
    USPA
  • Number of Jumps
    117
  • First Choice Discipline
    Freeflying
  • Second Choice Discipline
    Formation Skydiving

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  • Pro Rating
    Yes
  • Rigging Back
    Senior Rigger
  • Rigging Chest
    Senior Rigger
  1. The deal on that particular jump was that the fire was about 3/4 of a mile a way - and it did'nt even rain there! We jump into the safest/closest place to the fire, which on this day happened to be into a clearing in the path of a thunderstorm. We kinda took cover until it blew over, then hiked up to the fire. We figured that if we would have been under canopy five minutes later then we were - things would have been really ugly! Proplast-- Yeah, I'm still a smokejumper- starting my 7th season in April! (jeeze, I need to get a life!) -smkjumper
  2. Yeah, it's crazy. I think my latest jump in Alaska was at about 11:30 P.M. -smkjumper
  3. I've jumped north of the Arctic Circle a few times as a Smokejumper (in Alaska), but it wasn't much different than any other jumps I've done. I spend about five and a half months in Antarctica (South Pole Station), and honestly have no desire to make a skydive there. Too cold! As far as bad weather? I made a jump last year (again, as a smokejumper) into a rainstorm. It was'nt raining when I left the plane, and did'nt start until about 800 feet, but by the time I hit the groud, I was soaked! -smkjumper