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Update: I narrated the Audiobook. It's now on Audible, iTunes, and Amazon There is a link to listen to a chapter for free and another link to let you read the first chapter also for free.

Happily the book is off to a good start with sales in the US, UK, France, and Poland.

December 2nd will be the 60th anniversary of the first of my 2000+ jumps. Like anyone in this sport I had my share of misadventures and was recently encouraged to chronicle them. I just completed Bad Decisions Make Great Stories and it appeared on Amazon yesterday in paperback. Skydiving is the focus of the book but my misadventures in ski racing, snowboard racing, unicycling, sailing, flying etc are featured as well. The Kindle version is forthcoming. If you got into the sport in the sixties or seventies, you'll be able to relate. Pat Moore D-1814

HI Bill, I just sent you an email. Pat Moore D 1814

Pop's Winter Accuracy was the "must attend" event each year. My ex-wife became the first woman in the world to jump a square chute that Steve Snyder brought to Indiantown to demo. Happily I was on the winning team in 1969 with Bob Holler, Bill Ottley, and Tommy Bryant. [inline popsmeet69.jpg] DZGone.com B-4600, C-3615, D-1814, Gold Wings #326, Diamond Wings #152. If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much room!

You know you're an older jumper when your first jump certificate is signed by these guys...... [inline 1stjump.jpg] DZGone.com B-4600, C-3615, D-1814, Gold Wings #326, Diamond Wings #152. If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much room!

I created a website devoted to defunct drop zones a couple of years ago. Visit DZGone.com DZGone.com B-4600, C-3615, D-1814, Gold Wings #326, Diamond Wings #152. If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much room!

Great stuff! Can someone encapsulate a story about the DZ and hopefully add some pictures? I'd like to update the listing at DZGone.com for Osceola. Please send submissions to [email protected] Thanks! DZGone.com B-4600, C-3615, D-1814, Gold Wings #326, Diamond Wings #152. If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much room!

I was only able to stop by at the Pioneers Lunch on Friday as my wife and I had an early flight to Australia the next morning. I had a thrill reconnecting with Lew Sanborn, D-1, my instructor and jumpmaster at Orange 53 years ago. [inline patandlew.jpg] I was part of the nominating team to get Paul "Pop" Poppenhager D-47 inducted and I gave him a pencil drawing I did from a 1962 photo. [inline pop.jpg] I had some legends of the sport autograph a page that contained my first jump certificate. [inline cert.jpg] Many of the attendees said they would submit stories and photos for DZGone.com DZGone.com B-4600, C-3615, D-1814, Gold Wings #326, Diamond Wings #152. If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much room!

Google Maps list Good Hill Farm Airport as being in Roxbury. I'll see Lew Sanborn in early October and can ask him then. Lew was my jumpaster/instructor on my first jump in 1962. DZGone.com has now identified 622 defunct DZs with more coming in every day. Are you from Woodbury? I took some Giant Slalom gate training from Rod Taylor at Woodbury Ski Area many years ago. DZGone.com B-4600, C-3615, D-1814, Gold Wings #326, Diamond Wings #152. If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much room!

Jennikay, you've revived a very old thread. I'm not familiar with the gentleman in question. Earlier in this thread, the question was raised as to the first commercial dropzone in America. Roxbury, CT lays claim to that distinction. See this article. DZGone.com B-4600, C-3615, D-1814, Gold Wings #326, Diamond Wings #152. If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much room!

Had two rides down on WWII era 24 Twill reserves in 1965. They tended to oscillate a bit during descent and one occasion I timed it right making a standup landing on the runway. I had Mae Wests on my 5TU C9 surplus canopy on my 11th and 61st jumps. In both cases I hand-deployed the reserve. In the next 2000 jumps I had two totals and a scary reserve ride that I can describe when I have more time.... DZGone.com B-4600, C-3615, D-1814, Gold Wings #326, Diamond Wings #152. If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much room!

Folks - make it a point to visit this site. Pat Works has created an extraordinary resource. DZGone.com B-4600, C-3615, D-1814, Gold Wings #326, Diamond Wings #152. If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much room!

I didn't know AJ had jumped. I see him a few times each winter. I even made Ski Racing Magazine with him a few years back. [inline ski.jpg] Only celeb I ever jumped with was Richard Bach, author of Jonathan Livingtston Seagull. I was the first person he had ever seen in freefall. DZGone.com B-4600, C-3615, D-1814, Gold Wings #326, Diamond Wings #152. If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much room!

When doing an equipment check on my first jump students I'd instruct them to "turn your head and cough". That always got a laugh and they were a little less tense going aloft. DZGone.com B-4600, C-3615, D-1814, Gold Wings #326, Diamond Wings #152. If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much room!