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That magic moment after you've committed but before you're feet have left.



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That magic moment after you've committed but before you're feet have left.



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Nice. Pictures like that make me giggle and want to go grab my rig.

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One of the few pictures I have with me in it - and therefore by definition absolutely awesome.... B|
"If you can keep your head when all around you have lost theirs, then you probably haven't understood the seriousness of the situation."
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An exelent example of slider-down fun. :)Pic taken by Sniff, another super-talented photographer from our base-crew (and she is a basejumper as well:)It's our playground again -- same abandoned Antenna -- legal and still capable of positive emotions and thrill:S
Between two evils always pick theone never tried

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that's an awesome picture. me likey



Glad you like it :)
Here is a couple more from the same day - this is a cliff over a beach and the fog was all the way up to edge of the cliff; it delayed the jumping initially, but made for beautiful pictures when the jumping started.
"If you can keep your head when all around you have lost theirs, then you probably haven't understood the seriousness of the situation."
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Oh yeah! What a beautiful day!!! :ph34r:
Ciao Ivan!!! :P

3,2,1,C-YA!!!
V.
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This fog picture looks like you guys are standing at the end of the world... :o
scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM

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Ah, the frog :P Yeah, it was....
"If you can keep your head when all around you have lost theirs, then you probably haven't understood the seriousness of the situation."
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This fog picture looks like you guys are standing at the end of the world... :o



It was an amazing morning - clear blue skies, but fog all the way up the wall. I have a shot of the group standing at the top with the fog rolling over the cliff edge in the sunlight, but can't post it cos faces are recognisable...
"If you can keep your head when all around you have lost theirs, then you probably haven't understood the seriousness of the situation."
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in which country was that ??
scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM

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"If you can keep your head when all around you have lost theirs, then you probably haven't understood the seriousness of the situation."
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Dan is that you? ... you look like a student!

Look up and present, you make me proud!

*tears*

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Dan is that you? ... you look like a student!

Look up and present, you make me proud!



Hey Per! Yep, that's Dan the Man. Who else would wear such hideous colours? Dan is away for a few weeks, bringing joy to the Antipodies, so feel free to take the piss out of him!

Anyway, if you look carefully, the picture is not about Dan...it's about me! ;-)
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but can't post it cos faces are recognisable...



Erm, obscure the faces?! :-P
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Erm, obscure the faces?! :-P




....perhaps I should have been more honest: I can't bothered spending time editing them :P
"If you can keep your head when all around you have lost theirs, then you probably haven't understood the seriousness of the situation."
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If you know how to use MS paint you could edit them in under a minute. just cut thier faces out and save as jpg.

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If you know how to use MS paint you could edit them in under a minute. just cut thier faces out and save as jpg.



I refer the honourable gentleman to my previous statement. ;)
"If you can keep your head when all around you have lost theirs, then you probably haven't understood the seriousness of the situation."
David Brent

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My friend Don who died several years ago. He would host us (BASE 1, BASE 58, BASE 175, and BASE 335) at the tower. Janis Joplin used to hang out there in his 1 room shack with an outhouse.
Looks like a death sandwich without the bread - Steve Deadman Morrell, BASE 174

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What is Don's BASE #? He looks like quite a character..
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Don actually was not a jumper but he helped the jumpers quite a bit. His place was always party central. I was introduced to him originally by a BASE jumping cop. I made a jump with that cop 12 years ago one dark night and I landed in a tree. It turned out I landed in a pit of alligators. I was charged by a large alligator and I narrowly averted a potentially fatal attack. Don went out the next morning and shot the limbs of the tree that held my canopy. He did this without getting a single pellet in any part of my canopy.

A story about Don. http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?post=2050426#2050426

My post follows Walt's. There is a photo there of Don and me drinking a beer.
Looks like a death sandwich without the bread - Steve Deadman Morrell, BASE 174

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May I? Ok...:$ one of the rare pictures of me jumping from the things. :$:)thanks to Sniff for this one.
Between two evils always pick theone never tried

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Hard core!
Is that tower really only 100 metres? Looks higher.
The bums will never win Lebowski, the bums will never win!
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Hard core!
Is that tower really only 100 metres? Looks higher.


Some people say it's 100, some that it's 110m. I believe it's 110m. And the laser confirms it.
Between two evils always pick theone never tried

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