kallend 1,623 #26 July 27, 2011 QuoteWhere is that shot taken? Moab?About 18 miles NE of Moab. Took it with a hand held point&shoot camera.... The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
mjosparky 3 #27 July 27, 2011 QuoteMe, Donna Huminsky, Lou Jecker, and Jim Baron. Jumped into Dick Drost's Naked City, Indiana. The naked city nationals or something like that. 50 naked ladies pranceing around the sun dial. 10000 google eyed freaks watching the show. You mean this Dick Drost? Sparky http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/NudistHallofShame/Drost.htmlMy idea of a fair fight is clubbing baby seals Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kd5xb 1 #28 July 27, 2011 The Northern Training Area -- NTA -- Okinawa, 1980. Prettiest island I've ever seen!I'm a jumper. Even though I don't always have money for jumps, and may not ever own a rig again, I'll always be a jumper. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bolas 5 #29 July 28, 2011 Blue Hole. Hands down. Stupidity if left untreated is self-correcting If ya can't be good, look good, if that fails, make 'em laugh. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jackwallace 3 #30 July 28, 2011 QuoteQuoteMe, Donna Huminsky, Lou Jecker, and Jim Baron. Jumped into Dick Drost's Naked City, Indiana. The naked city nationals or something like that. 50 naked ladies pranceing around the sun dial. 10000 google eyed freaks watching the show. You mean this Dick Drost? Sparky http://www.nostatusquo.com/ACLU/NudistHallofShame/Drost.html Yeah that looks like him. We did the dive in the 70's. I figured the guy was dead by now. He had juvenile MD and wasn't suppose to make it to 21. His folks were vitamin freaks, kept him alive. He spent his time sitting in front of TV. He noticed some commercials were cut off before they finished. He started writing letters to companies selling the info, so they got their monies worth. He got rich. In the nudist camp they had a building where people sat and stared at TV's all day, watching the commercials. He ran a bunch of those fake "nudist contests" that were stripper shows. Girl there told me that if she won a contest it upped her worth a bunch at the clubs. He also had a truckers resturant nest to the interstate that had topless waitresses. Big deal back then. I shook the guys hand when we set up the demo and it was like he had no bones in his body.U only make 2 jumps: the first one for some weird reason and the last one that you lived through. The rest are just filler. scr 316 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
maxwellman23 0 #31 July 28, 2011 Well done sir I am ALIVE! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Stearny 1 #32 July 29, 2011 Skydive Switzerland just outside Interlaken (during my 20 day backpack trip through Europe). I was fresh off of student status (jump 28). My briefing from the S&TA when I got there went something like this.... "Don't land East, Mountains = death" "Don't land North, Powerlines and highway = death" "Don't land South, ice cold glacier river = death" "Have fun!" I know it's not that exotic, but I am a good ole boy from Kansas.Stearny Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BobMoore 0 #33 July 29, 2011 QuoteMe, Donna Huminsky, Lou Jecker, and Jim Baron. Jumped into Dick Drost's Naked City, Indiana. The naked city nationals or something like that. 50 naked ladies pranceing around the sun dial. 10000 google eyed freaks watching the show. What!? No pictures!?"For you see, an airplane is an airplane. A landing area is a landing area. But a dropzone... a dropzone is the people." Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sxc 0 #34 July 29, 2011 Do you have to do a water landing at the Blue Hole? or is there a land option? are they islands around the blue hole? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Bolas 5 #35 July 29, 2011 It's all water. Stupidity if left untreated is self-correcting If ya can't be good, look good, if that fails, make 'em laugh. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
sxc 0 #36 July 29, 2011 Doesn't your gear get trashed? Just thinking about the logistics of it .... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
piisfish 135 #37 July 29, 2011 QuoteDoesn't your gear get trashed? Just thinking about the logistics of it ....no TRASHED... but it will need a GOOD rinsing in clear water. Reason for which most people do the sea jumps with their "water" rigs.... (generally older ger who has lost most of its resalle value, but still in a more or less decent shape)scissors beat paper, paper beat rock, rock beat wingsuit - KarlM Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jackwallace 3 #38 July 30, 2011 QuoteQuoteMe, Donna Huminsky, Lou Jecker, and Jim Baron. Jumped into Dick Drost's Naked City, Indiana. The naked city nationals or something like that. 50 naked ladies pranceing around the sun dial. 10000 google eyed freaks watching the show. What!? No pictures!? There are probably a million of them. As everyone of those girls walked, strutted, giggled around the sun dial the click or shutters was deafening. There's a bunch more to the story, but its a there I was deal.U only make 2 jumps: the first one for some weird reason and the last one that you lived through. The rest are just filler. scr 316 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
goobersnuftda 0 #39 July 31, 2011 Exoitic as in not the usual place YES ..... Nice and warm... NO. -44. The wind direction was from the south (it is always from the SOUTH no matter what) The color of the bears is WHITE Back in 2005 the quality of the cameras was not as they are today. Stills taken from miniDV tape. Camera lasted about 3 min before shutting down. Once landed, pocket camera I had inside the parka lasted about 4 min before shutting down. Fresh battery swap (from warm armpit) and lens refused to turn on and extend :) Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
