base428 1 #26 July 7, 2005 QuoteAnybody got a date in mind??? Just like Tom said, check out my signature line. That will be the 30th anniversary of my El Cap jump where I received my BASE number and I plan to celebrate it with another jump. And that's a promise.(c)2010 Vertical Visions. No unauthorized duplication permitted. <==For the media only Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tfelber 0 #27 July 7, 2005 That's too long. I'll be like 61 on Viagra by then... Ok well maybe not the Viagra part. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nicrussell 0 #28 July 7, 2005 why not a 10 year aniversary? 30 is sooooo over done! plus my A.D.D.....what was i gunna say? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
pullhigh 0 #29 July 7, 2005 What made you decide to make it a 30th anniversary deal? Why not 10, 15, 20, 25, whatever? Ganja "where do we sign up?" Rodriguez Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
base428 1 #30 July 7, 2005 I dunno why I selected 30 years. I'll be 54 years old then, and I figured that I'd be at my BASE retirement age. Maybe I would go out with a bang....at least the bang of the jail doors shutting on me. It would be a great way to end my BASE career. If you guys wanna do this sooner, you're more than welcome to organize it. I'm just giving myself the next 20 years to recruit my accomplices. But perhaps Nick is right. Dating back to the 1966 El Cap jump, the rangers have been sticking it to us. That's nearly 40 years of discrimination. Maybe it's time to stop being nice and show them how we really feel?(c)2010 Vertical Visions. No unauthorized duplication permitted. <==For the media only Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nicrussell 0 #31 July 7, 2005 Then maybe the 40 year El Cap BASE birthday next year. What was the exact date? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NickDG 23 #32 July 7, 2005 This idea has been simmering on the stove for many years. Putting off 200 + from El Cap, sort of like "The Great Escape" and Martin Luther King's march against intolerance through the south, all rolled into one. A civil disobedience protest that would make headlines around the world. The last failed attempt at this sort of thing took the starch out of it, and I wasn't a supporter of that anyway, because six people aren't going to convince anyone of anything, even if it had gone better. We have to overwhelm them either as individuals jumping everyday or all of us at once. I mean, come on, they have their schedule and we have ours. We can either wait for them to let us jump, or we can seize the right. Nothing else has worked, not lawyers, not letter writing, not quiet indignation, and we've been at it for over 27 years. We need to make enough noise that the Joe Six-packs and the Soccer Moms across the nation wonder too why we can't jump. No one I've ever met in my life doesn't think BASE jumping is a cool thing, even when they would never consider it themselves. We are magic boys and girls, we are the very embodiment of what is best about the human spirit, and the only thing stopping us is us . . . I swear, as Carl Boenish is my witness, I will stand there and let them haul me off to what ever fate awaits me. The Yosemite dungeon would not hold us all, so makeshift pens would await us and we'd chant, "Let the Brothers Go . . . surrounded by climbers who have suffered for years under what they call oppression by the "tool." Climbers would marvel at us, and wonder why they haven't done the same. We live in time when it "is" possible to gather 200, maybe even 300, very experienced BASE jumpers in one place. The time is now, the reason is just, and the fate of the sport is in our hands. We can roll over, or we can stand up. We can submit or go down fighting. When you are sitting on your porch, old and grey, and reminiscing on your hundred potato bridge jumps and your grandchild asks, "Gran, what did you do during the great BASE war of 2005, what are you going to say? We can do the details though good old snail mail, they may know we are coming, but they won't know when. This will call for every stealth lesson we've ever learned over time, but the difference this time is it won't be about any individual, it will be about the sport, the thing that brought here in the first place. Let's Seize the Right . . . NickD BASE 194 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TomAiello 25 #33 July 7, 2005 Would it work better if we all got busted, or if we all got away?-- Tom Aiello [email protected] SnakeRiverBASE.com Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
base428 1 #34 July 7, 2005 Will I get a T-shirt if I participate? Either way, I'm in. Just don't throw me off FIRST.(c)2010 Vertical Visions. No unauthorized duplication permitted. <==For the media only Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
leroydb 0 #35 July 7, 2005 you can almost see the rangers starting to sweat...Leroy ..I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw my bath toys were a toaster and a radio... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DexterBase 0 #36 July 7, 2005 I really don't think the rangers will care. It will not overload their resources anyway. When you're arrested for BASE jumping in Yosemite, you're transported to the jail where you're processed and booked. After that, you're placed in a cell. Once this is done, you're free to leave until your court date as long as you have $500 to bail out. If you are found guilty, the $500 is applied to your fine. I imagine if 200 of us go off the rock, they'll herd us up as best they can (I imagine a few will get away since it will be very difficult for them to chase 200 BASE jumpers at the same time) and maybe they'll catch half of us. It would not be hard to put 100 people in a room and charge/book us assembly line style. They will probably not hold anyone in jail as long as we each carry $500 in our pocket to post bail. Oh yeah, there is a midnight cutoff to post bail. Edit: Which means we can all go out and get piss drunk the same evening Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NickDG 23 #37 July 7, 2005 T-shirts for all and the ones who already limp go first . . . NickD BASE194 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
wwarped 0 #38 July 7, 2005 so, what would happen if only half the group actually jumped, the other half simply stood around AS IF they had landed? would they be able to prove whom had done what? or would they book everyone for "conspiracy?" who's up for hiding in the LZ, rigged up, and just walking out? DON'T PANIC The lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss. sloppy habits -> sloppy jumps -> injury or worse Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TomAiello 25 #39 July 7, 2005 Quoteso, what would happen if only half the group actually jumped, the other half simply stood around AS IF they had landed? Brilliant! Or, what if we all just drove in, got out of our cars, put on unpacked rigs, and started milling around the meadow? What would they do? What if we started packing? 200 rigs being packed in El Cap meadow? I can imagine the pure befuddlement in the Ranger station... "I dunno, Ron, I don't think they're breaking any laws." "But Jack, we've got to _do something_." "Sure, what you want me to do?"-- Tom Aiello [email protected] SnakeRiverBASE.com Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DexterBase 0 #40 July 7, 2005 Yeah... that's too funny. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NickDG 23 #41 July 7, 2005 The worst of it, and a thing we seem to accept, and I don't know why, is that by just talking about it, we are guilty of conspiracy . . . NickD BASE 194 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TomAiello 25 #42 July 7, 2005 I don't think it's that simple. If it was, Tom Clancy would be in jail for conspiracy to commit the 9/11 attacks.-- Tom Aiello [email protected] SnakeRiverBASE.com Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
frankj23 0 #43 July 7, 2005 >>Brilliant! Or, what if we all just drove in, got out of our cars, put on unpacked rigs, and started milling around the meadow? What would they do? What if we started packing? 200 rigs being packed in El Cap meadow? I can imagine the pure befuddlement in the Ranger station... "I dunno, Ron, I don't think they're breaking any laws." "But Jack, we've got to _do something_." "Sure, what you want me to do?" << This is really starting to go someplace! I sure hope those of us capable of organizing and motivating can convert these ideas to action. There is good stuff here! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
DexterBase 0 #44 July 7, 2005 I'm pretty sure if I even show up in the meadow with a rig, they're going to lock me up and ask questions later. Damn bust last summer...... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NickDG 23 #45 July 7, 2005 Come on Brothers and Sisters . . . Let's Rock . . . NickD BASE194 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TomAiello 25 #46 July 7, 2005 QuoteOr, what if we all just drove in, got out of our cars, put on unpacked rigs, and started milling around the meadow? And for that, you wouldn't even need jumpers. My aunt bessie could put on a rig. Then when they busted her, she'd claim she never woulda had no intenshun of jumpin' nohow--and it would be believable.-- Tom Aiello [email protected] SnakeRiverBASE.com Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NickDG 23 #47 July 7, 2005 Aunt Bessie in cuffs is just what we need. Bring her . . . NickD BASE 194 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
frankj23 0 #48 July 7, 2005 >>>Aunt Bessie in cuffs is just what we need. Bring her . . . NickD BASE 194 <<< Charter a few tour busses (a lot cheaper than a trip to Norway or Lauterbrunnen), some go to the Tioga road El Cap trailhead to hike across, a couple go the Valley for hiking up from the bottom and maybe one goes with all the Aunt Bessies and ground crewers to put on their unpacked rigs. When everybody starts landing and milling around in the landing area, it will be totally confusing. A lot of people without rigs could point to the ground crewers who did not jump and insist to the rangers they saw them land, and later say they were mistaken. It would drive the bureaucrats nuts, and would warm the hearts of climbers, tourists sympathetic climbing rangers and everybody else....What a sight that would be...the end of the BASE ban, as long as nobody got hurt. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
cornishe 0 #49 July 7, 2005 I'm ready, even this year. 200 jumpers x $100 (suggested donation) each = $20,000 for a bad ass attorney to fight for the entire lot that ended up busted. I can easily open up a paypal or bank account to hold the funds. No one post bail. Lets party in their jail house as long as we can and make some fucking noise. Draw out the jumping for 6 - 8 hours. Have people, media, rangers with eyes on us all day. The shock is gone after a few loads and soon enough someone will realize this is not "insane". Just no one bounce, dammit. This isn't about you or how totally wicked your uber low terminal pull looked, but having 200 "uneventful" BASE jumps happen off one site. I'll start a poll. Look for it. Only answer yes if you are serious about being there. .Abbie Mashaal Skydive Idaho Snake River Skydiving TandemBASE Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
NickDG 23 #50 July 7, 2005 >>200 "uneventful" BASE jumps happen off one site.<< We can do that, we've done it from other objects before . . . with ease and aplomb. . . . We need no one's permission or support! NickD BASE 194 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
