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It's a shame

That is pretty friggin awesome, hehehe.

I want Hanwags too. Being broke sucks.

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Hehe, I knew that all too well, good weather I hope? It is still hard for me to go flat and stable and take a solid two, I am always jumping the gun (unless I am busy watching the world rotate ) I need to get back up there SOON! If it weren't for Miami I would be well over a month without a jump (skydives aside)

You're in for a lot of fun. I am still finding new ways to scare myself . Congratulations on your first, and may the rest be just as memorable (not likely though )

Didn't jump at all, . Congrats on the first stowed man, I told you you'd find it.

It was a friggin awesome jump, beach landing, so sweet! I am glad I walked away in one piece too Welcome to BASE, by the way. Adam

Problem there is that you are most likely tracking back down the line of flight. You will get back closer to the DZ, but you will also be flying toward and over opening canopies, you've got to keep the tracking perpindicular to the jump run to avoid this.

Not to say who's right or wrong, but I have to say that risers are my way to go. I recently did my lowest freefall (290 ft.) from my first "B", my previous lowest was a 320 ft. jump from an "A". In what I experienced, I had a 90 left and went to risers by instinct. The real risk came in the fact that to get to the landing area it was a hundred foot canopy ride straight ahead (from exit), otherwise it was gonna be a hairy landing. In the situation, I could have gone toggles and it probably would have given me a couple more seconds for my canopy flight, but the risers stopped any more motion toward the object. I thought A LOT about the jump and what I would've done in the presence of a more serious off heading. I am convinced that if I had gone for toggles (with a 180) in such proximity to the object (being a go and throw and all) I would have absolutely not walked away from that building. It was a HUGE difference from almost all of my previous jumps and it really humbled me and taught me a lot about how the canopy flies. Just being so close to the object and so close to the ground, you would think ground rush stops after the freefall. Anyway, just throwing another point of view out there for a little contrast. Hope it helps. Congrats on your jumps Fire, I heard you guys cranked out a BUNCH.

Many thanks to Mr. Boenish for the paving the way for so many of us, and thanks to you, I wouldn't have known otherwise.

Careful, the dreams are what got me started.

I was shown by a good friend of mine a good point (not that it makes a huge difference as Kevin said). the pins will pull regardless of the orientation, but if you look at it, having them looking as much like a 6 as possible will make it so the bridle will immediately start to pull the pins, rather than having to turn the from a "smile" to a "frown". Don't know how much sense it makes, but I am sure I could get you a picture if you wanted. Hope it helps.

Hey, you haven't wasted anyones time, they didn't have to take the time to respond. But to add, it's not always height that makes a site safe, like Drew said. Norway is an AWESOME site, nobody can deny that, and I can appreciate and definitely understand the drive to want to go there (I will be there soon). If you want to go there and jump, you will, and I think what everyone is trying to say is, take the necesary avenues to doing so. Keep in mind that asking questions is the start to it all, so don't feel bad asking, it can keep you alive. Have fun.

This is an ultra unfortunate thing that has happened and I can't say that I don't have a part in heating the site up, but there is one (or more) jumper/s in particular that were damaging this site in a ridiculous manner. Bending down wire with no regard to the fact that someone will notice this damage. A few of us even went out to the site and bent things back, making it look as suitable as we could (AND WE DIDN'T EVEN JUMP THAT NIGHT). It seemed to me that if this site was left unscathed, nobody would have ever put in sensors. In fact, I think that the damage being done to the surrounding fence was exceeding what the cost of a sensor would be, and that was the final decision. Given, there were jumps made there at innapropriate times (myself being included in these) which I am sure did not help the situation. There was a lot of respect put into this site by the people I have jumped with there, other than timing, we made sure that we covered tracks (feet as well as tires) and to my knowledge we were never seen jumping the object. By the way, this site was so easily accesable without doing ANY damage that it is ludicrous that someone was leaving behind such blatant evidence that people were trespassing. One little phone call is all it would have taken to get the info on the site. I myself am a new jumper, but I sought out the necesary avenues to go about finding out what the best way to hit the site was. Finally, I think that a lot of us became too comfortable with the remoteness of the site and that contributed to our lack of stealth. So to the few people who were willing to go to the top, I apologize for my part in the heat, but keep in mind, I enjoyed this site as well as anyone and didn't want this to happen, but it did. This is my first experience with heat on an object, and the mistakes that i and others (the wire damage wasn't acceptable by the way) have made, I personally will take into account and learn from. To end, this sucks, but it's not the end, and to the person who did all that damage to the wire, thank you, thank you very much.