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  1. From the fall of 1981 untill the summer of 1984 myself and many other's we're making BASE Jumps off this 710' northern California Bridge, it was just so Cool !
    Bill Dause my Skydiving Mentor operates a Parachute Center an hour or so away and he was so nice to us when we got back from jumping the Greenie.
    One time when David B Grant and Myself we're discreetly BASE Packing on the side of the Parachute Center's Building, Bill came strolling around the corner, David and I looked at each other thinking something like, oops we're in trouble now ! Bill walked up and checked out my unheard of at the Time, a 52" Yellow Pilot Chute made by Hank Acustio, (I think that's how you spell Hank's last name) a Company called Para Inovator's, from Southern California.
    Bill looked at both us then and never questioned us. He's so cool !
    David and Myself proceeded to make many Jumps off the Greenie and the 2 Very Tall Antenna Towers very close to Bill's Parachute Center.
    Bill Dause treated both David and I with Respect !
    I Highly recommend Bill's Parachute Center to any would be Skydiver or BASE Jumper.
    Gerald Harendza BASE # 75

  2. Hi, Actually I do not where Mark Hewitt BASE# 46 is right now.
    Mark invented the "Sorcerer" Rig that has proven to save lives on high altitude BASE Jumps. Mark is a wonderful Very Smart Person, who has contributed with many BASE inventions during the Very Early years of BASE. I think Mark has 5 BASE inventions ! Mark helped myself and Many Many others during the Early years of BASE.
    On another note: "Slim" a friend of almost every one, Probabally wishes he was Jumping a "Sorcerer"!
    Thank You,
    Gerald Harendza
    Night BASE 24

  4. Posted with Permission from "Jump" Magazine.
    Written by: Skratch Garrison.

    Sometimes my gear scares me
    It's a long way up to be hanging from strings and rags.
    So I think real hard
    and figure it out again,
    then everything goes fine for a while.
    Then I do something
    Scary again.
    Like watching someone else open. Do I really believe that ?
    I better,
    Because it's my turn now.
    I just keep going through the process.
    Because I started when I was to
    young to Know any better
    and now I can't stop !

  7. Years ago in the mid 1980's I made many skydives out of Bill Dause's DC-3 at the Parachute Center near Lodi, California.
    It was loads of fun!
    It would be a great help to know what drop zones are still using DC-3's to drop jumpers?