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  1. all very good and valid points made above


    and here's a weird coincidence:

    the exit point is called Mari's Gash, after a jumper named Mari who got hung up on the wall following a cliffstrike..

    the two guys who had clifftsrikes and got hung up on the same wall both had names (or nicknames) starting with 'M'...

    which makes 3 / 3 with Mari...

    cya
    sam

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    crazydave44:
    .."told me personally that he didn't have the strength to pull on his rears. So he goes to his toggles no matter what."
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    You are saying that he Knows he does NOT have the ability to Pull Rear Risers ???? Holy Fucking Shit ! Say It Isn't So..



    Ray and Dave

    That's not what I heard from Marta.

    She said Marty had decided to use toggles for heading corrections, as he could not get his canopy to turn using rear risers when he tried that.

    This does not really surprise me, as I have seen and heard from plenty of jumpers who have not learned yet to fly their BASE canopies competently.

    cya
    sam

  3. if you're going to wear a helmet for protection, you might as well have a full face helmet

    Tom A jumps a full face these days after a friend of his needed facial reconstruction surgery from an incident

    full face downhill mountainbike helmets are the way to go, they are light (especially if you get a carbon shell), absorb a load of impact (they have an expanded foam inner to do that) and will protect your face and pretty smile too and the high end ones go for being real light, so they are relatively low profile and the one I have doesn't take away any of my peripheral vision.

    I have a 661 Full Bravo Carbon, which I got from a web retailer shipped for $118. You won't find better protection for your money that can compare in terms of weight and minimal vision restriction.

    I removed the peak/visor, which is something you would want to do as well.

    I decided on that helmet based on several years of downhill mountainbiking a few hundred skydives and some basejumps.

    cya
    sam

  5. Hey Matt

    massive thanks to you and your crew for sharing this!

    you guys really hooked us up, Brad is definitely addicted now, Sparky couldn't stop talking about the rope jumps and I still can't decide if the rope jump or the base jump from the Tyrolean was the bigger rush... :D

    it was a pleasure to meet you all and to be able to give a little back by helping pack up.

    PM sent with names.

    cya
    sam

    Edited to add: one of the most awesome things was seeing Andrew and Jimmy (the climbers from Canada, who I met when we climbed Castleton Tower the same day as them) do their first rope jumps, so true what you said about climbers and basejumpers, I hope I exhited some of my neglected climbing experience...

  6. Cheri

    it was the least we could do considering all the hospitality you and Tom have shown us B|

    besides, I got to drive the U-Haul and that's always fun! :D

    cya

    sam

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    I'll be in town again this weekend.;)



    dude, awesome!

    the weather was crazy good today

    so much so that our local wonderful-weather barometer, a.k.a. Tom A, came out and did several jumps... B|

    guess having his pilotchute mangled during a daisychain 2 days ago (by me) wasn't enough to scare him off that kind of behaviour for long...:P

    hope this nice weather lasts all weekend, because weather last weekend blew the big one

    cya
    sam

  8. Hey Crystel, what's up?

    Yeah, I got your footage! ;)

    I have tons of footage of everyone who jumped.

    We'll make a plan to get it to you.

    So, it's almost weekend here again, who's showing up this weekend that havent put a shout out yet?

    cya
    sam

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    In a S/L set up the break cord breaks at around 80LB so usually there should not be more than 80LB of force that is applied to any component of the rig.




    I'm not sure how to explain this in a way that will convince all the skeptics, so next time I see you, please ask me to demonstrate:

    -break cord is rated at 80lbs break strength
    -standard static line set up uses 80lb break cord tied into a loop with a surgeon's knot
    -this loop requires a breaking force of 2 times the breaking strength, reduced by a factor for the greatest stress concentration in the system (the knot you use, the link you use, etc.), which generally works out to just under 160lbs on the bridle

    and no, this doesn't mean that this method will suspend you if you weigh less than 160 lb

    cya
    sam

  10. saw what I believe is the first wingsuit jump off the Perrine Bridge in Twin Falls today... :S

    for those who don't know, exit altitude is 486 ft

    in the interest of safety, it was a slider down PCA.. :ph34r:

    looks like he got about 8-10 feet of forward motion, but that might just have been from the exit push.. :P

    what was impressive is that he got all unzipped and turned around and landed in the main landing area.. B|

    nice going dude!

    cya
    sam

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    There will be a crew of 4-5 from SLC at the bridge tomarrow 11/14 for the day....hows the weather?

    Cya
    Sky



    whatsup Sky?

    I remember you from when I was here last July.

    as for the weather today - were you at Bridgeday 2004?

    if so, just picture that, but slightly colder and with less wind.

    I have done 3 jumps so far today and we'll be going out soon to try and flick some more.

    look me up at the bridge tomorrow, I'm the dude with the containers that have the car-accident tie-dye jobs - you'll know it when you see it... B|

    cya

  14. finally there's jumpers in town and life at the bridge! :D

    a reasonably nice day if it weren't for the 15mph + East winds dominating most of the day, but at least 7 jumpers did at least one jump each today and most got in a few (I'm pretty happy with my 4, especially since I got Tom to pack my rig in return for videotaping him doing it - easiest packjob I ever did... :))

    anyways, thought the thread could use a *bump*

    sounds like the weekend could get busy, sound off if you're coming out, everyone...

    cya
    sam

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    Unless someone wants to do the test drops ;)



    It should be very easy to just simulate the system by free stowing the lines up the sides fo the container. You could also improvise some kind of covers if you happened to have a spair container you could attach them to. And if you lived in Twin Falls, you could run out and try it pretty easily. And if there was a bored jumper from Canada in town, you might even be able to convince him to side float and film the deployments.

    Hmmm. I wonder if we can find someone who meets that criteria.



    wonder no more - I'll do it!

    I just have one packjob to do tonight (even though I just squeezed two jumps in, a 2 way with Miles and then my first unpacked jump, a slider up McConkey (thanks for the pointers and help, Miles!), which also happened to be my first night span jump, and then I'm all over getting my bulletcam operational...

    :D


    so Tom, are you volunteering to do the test jumps yourself, or am I going to be video-ing a dummy of sorts? ( I can't think how to avoid the pun there, sorry )

    cya
    sam

    (less bored now, that McConkey scared me quite a lot, maybe black lines aren't the most reassuring option when you're looking down at your canopy hanging in the bridge's shadow and trying to see if all the lines look in the right place, damn black slider too :S )

  16. sky12345 – see you when you get here.

    Calvin19 – I’ll be here dude, looking forward to meeting you and the crew and jumping with them. I’ve seen Holly jump twice now and I’m pretty sure what Dexterbase said is the real deal.

    DexterBase – right-on, guy. Bummer about the I-90. Hope Portland treats you well.

    JeNnEjEnN – finally get to meet the famous JeNnEjEnN… you might want to bring more clothing than in that user icon pic, wait what am I saying? – you’ll be fine it’s not that cold out here right now.

    see you dudes soon

    PMs sent.

    :D

    PS - if anyone feels like bringing an empty BASE logbook with them, I'm looking for one and will refund you the costs.

  17. for the record, I'm not advocating this 'contest' as a good idea...

    and as for there being no wingsuit fatalities yet, unfortunately you are mistaken about that, as one of the pioneers of the modern era of wingsuit flying died on a wingsuit jump and the cause seems pretty clearly linked to his wingsuit... :(

    and that's not even counting all the birdmen from before the 'modern era of wingsuiting', you know, the era where it's quicker to count the survivors rather than the fatalities... [:/]

    they may be gone, but they are not forgotten

  20. Chad

    Like Tom said it supposed to be crappy, but turned out really nice.

    I got to the bridge at 09:35 this morning (the walk from my super cheap motel took a bit longer than anticipated, 1 hour and 16 minutes, in fact) and it was a bit cold, but not really windy at all.

    No-one showed up to jump till 11:00 when two jumpers from L.A. rolled in, so we got two off, even though the winds had picked up a bit, it was fine.

    This afternoon looked even better, but I didn't get any more jumps in due to looking for a bicycle...

    see you if you come out next weekend..

    sam

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    I haven't seen this be a problem with modern LRT style toggle setups (where the white loop reduces the overall force to the toggle).

    Have you (or anyone) seen a case of a modern LRT style toggle jamming into the control line during a hard opening (or malfunction)? I am unaware of any instances of this happening on modern gear.



    may not be exactly what you are thinking of, but I rember BD03, Lonnie ended up with a very interesting line/toggle/ring configuration after taking a slider off (maybe it was slider down) to something like 5.5 seconds...

    the opening snapped the one brakeline, but I believe it pulled some toggle into the ring before snapping....

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    (For our American friends, a 70kg person will be about 175-180lbs out the door.)



    I read his post as being 70 kg body weight. 70 x 2.54 = 177.8. Add 20ish pounds for the gear. That's 1.16 on a 170.



    uhm, that should read: 70 x 2.2 = 154

    1 kg = 2.2 lb

    you were thinking inches to cm, 1 inch = 2.54 cm

    ;)