KL BASE Event 2008

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Smashing Records at the CP World Championships

A fantastic location, excellent organisation, good (enough) weather, fast planes, the worlds best canopy pilots and a record breaking competition. That pretty much sums it up.

New distance world record, Nick Batsch 169.61m

New speed world record, Greg Windmiller 2.333secs

New Aussie distance record, Drew Lipinski 143.91m

New Aussie speed record, Cameron Rolfe 2.405 secs

Jay Moledzki is the new World Champion taking over from John Zuliani, the 2006 winner.

Rob McMillan finished 4th place overall, the best ever result by an Aussie. And Cameron Rolfe brought home a silver medal in distance, the first ever World Championships medal that Australia has won in the distance event.

Go the Aussies!

Michael Beeden representing New Zealand finished in 37th place.

Overall

1 Jason Moledzki, Canada

2 Nicolas Batsch, USA

3 Greg Windmiller, USA

Zone Accuracy

1 Jason Moledzki, Canada

2 Goran Schwarz, Sweden

3 Peter Allum, Italy

Distance

1 Nicolas Batsch, USA

2 Cameron Rolfe, Australia

3 Chris Teague, South Africa

Speed

1 Pablo Hernandez, Spain

2 Jason Moledzki, Canada

3 Shannon Pilcher, USA

For full results and photos of the event see www.canopypiloting.co.za/

Canopy Piloting World Championships

69 competitors from 19 countries. That is how many were registered as at the competitors meeting this afternoon. There were 57 competitors in Sydney at the World Cup last year.

The 2 Ukrainians were delayed due to an Air France strike and have done no training jumps. They get to do a practise jump in the morning before round 1 begins, that is the drifter load.

This is going to be a very exciting competition. The unnoficial speed world record is 2.44 seconds, Marat Leiras did a blistering 2.1 yesterday in training. The distance world record is 155m and so far there are about 6 or 7 competitors having gone beyond the 160m mark in training.

Bring on round 1!

CP World Championships in Pretoria, South Africa

Today is the 3rd day of the official training camp at the Canopy Piloting World Championships in Pretoria, South Africa. About 40 of the expected 70 competitors from 20 countries have arrived and are jumping. The entire Aussie team is now here along with competitors from the UK, USA, Canada, Italy, Belgium, Brazil, Venezuela, Denmark, Spain, Sweden, Finland, Netherlands, and of course South Africa. More and more competitors are arriving every day.

The pond looks fantastic, the red dirt is getting into everything, (there will be no white canopies leaving South Africa, they will all be Salmon coloured!) and the 100m of grassed distance course is already taking its toll on competitors bodies. The dz is at about 4000 feet above sea level and we are seeing lots of really fast and very long swoops. Maha, Chris Teague and Jay have already landed in the sand pit out past the end of the turf. That is more than 160m from the entry gate. The current World Record is less than 160m.

Yesterday I didn't have a very good day of training, I only did 4 jumps and missed every gate. Matt Harris kindly offered to call Qantas and bring my flight forward so I could leave today and cut short my suffering. I told him there was no point, I would miss the flight because I would never be able to find the gate.

I had a better day today.....

In between training the Aussies have been making the most of being in Africa and catching up with some of the local wildlife. One of the closest parks, Pilanesberg, is less than 2 hours away and Kruger NP is about 5 hours. The Kruger park rangers are more than happy to interrupt their bicycle poacher patrols and chat to the tourists. Not sure how many poachers they catch on those rickety old bikes though. But I reckon they could get the pace going if some of the wildlife were chasing them. They said they only know of 1 ranger being taken by a lion about 20 years ago.

We are all looking forward the next few days of training and the beginning of competition next thursday.

9 Lives BASE ASIA TOUR 2008

We left cold rainy Wollongong on 21 August 2008 with plans for Tonsai for jumping and climbing, then on to KL for the International BASE event of the KL Tower.

Our plane was delayed leaving Sydney, and it made us miss our overnight train to Krabi. After sitting around in a smelly hostel in KL for a night, we decided to pursue our first building jump (legally).

We ventured to Penang, Malaysia; found ourselves some other crazy BASE jumpers congregated at a 650ft round building named Komtar. We were treated like rock stars, staying in the beautiful Shangrila 5 star luxury resort overlooking our first building. The next day we were escorted by police and locals in great style to the Komtar. 5 awesome jumps later, we were spent. Mega thermals, tight landing areas and swarms of photos and autographs signed, the day was amazing with no injuries and one hell of an after party!!

We met a Norwegian (Martin) and a Frenchie (Stephane), both top blokes, and decided to persue Thailand for two days of the most beautiful place in the world. Tonsai with its amazing locals, and kick ass 450ft cliff, which just so happens to be right over the top of a bar with ice cold Singha beer waiting after landing.

Back to KL, this time staying somewhere a lot nicer, with only one thing on our minds. It was still 2 days till the event started, so we relaxed for the afternoon, planning on doing the tourist thing the following day.

It didn’t turn out that way! Dan was playing with his cameras, getting time-lapse of the Tower, I was considering a cold beer (it was 5 o’clock somewhere in the world) when suddenly we were kidnapped by the organizers of the event, taken in style to our hotel to collect our rigs, and 30 minutes later, found ourselves standing on top of the 980ft KL tower, ready for the test jumps with the Malaysian guys! Josie was first off for the event, followed by Dan and Stephane and the fun had started. We were allowed to jump until 12noon, when the tower would be closed again until the official start of the event.

For the 3 day event, we made some really fun jumps and met some great people. We both did our first gainers, linked 2-ways and unorthodox exits, which you’d never get to try anywhere but Kuala Lumpur.The KL Tower is a very forgiving object, and we recommend it to any jumper that is passionate about progressing in this sport.

On the final day of the KL event, we were invited to represent New Zealand and jump off the helipad of the beautiful Shark Fin Building (Telecom Tower). This was the first time this building has been jumped legally on the tour. A heart-stopping exit, tight landing area and hundreds of onlookers (Independence Day Ceremony) made this a very memorable jump.

Back to the KL Tower, for the afternoon, to get our last few jumps of the event in before the farwell ceremony, attended by the BASE jump loving King of Malaysia. He thanked us for jumping off his buildings, and expressed some exciting plans for the future.

We’d like to take this opportunity to thank Deepseed for making it all possible, and we’re looking forward to many more adventures in the near future!!

www.9livesbase.com

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DESIGN A T-SHIRT COMP WINNER

Congratulations to Holly Blake for being the first and only and therefore winning entry into our "Design a T-shirt" Competition in August.

We look forward to seeing more entrants into our future competitions!

DESIGN A T-SHIRT COMP 1st Entry

A Big Thanks to Holly Blake for being the first Entry into our design a T-shirt Competition. We're sure you will all agree that she has set the bar pretty high with this entry, so we look forward to getting more entries in the coming weeks.

Training in sweden

So we were invited to come to the nordic freefly championships 2008. The event is held in stockholms parachuting club in gryttjom. We were here last summer and we were really impressed by the place. It's a really down to earth place, with lots of nice and skilled people, so we were really looking forward to coming back this year.

Anyway, we arraived here saturday night after a long drive from Denmark, so the bon-fire and the cold beers were the perfect ending of that drive.

We did the first training jumps yesterday. Its been quite some time since we all jumped as a team, as Niels has been busy with his medical exams (yes, he's actually a real doctor now!), so the first jumps are more about finding eachother again.

We are now working on our free routine, playing with different ideas and different moves and exists. I'm pretty confident that we can work out something useful to the competition, however the competition is going to be really hard. We have teams from Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark alltogether.

That's it for now, I'll keep posting to let you all know how we are doing :)

August 2-3 - Skydive New England Freefly Scrambles

• 2nd Annual Freefly Scrambles open to all skill levels


• 4 round compulsory freefly scrambles


• 2-way mixed skills teams chosen at random


• Video on each round


• Great Prizes!


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The Kaipo Wall

The Kaipo. Aotearoa's Terminal Wall.

After a beautiful summer in Europe and Scandinavia discovering the fine line and raw power of wingsuit base jumping. I found myself back in the relatively flat North Island of New Zealand preparing to retire my slider for another year. Apart from the one and a few beautiful slider off sites close to home the opportunity to fly a wingsuit from land had yet to be discovered…….
So the search began! Starting with topographical maps and photographs of areas of interest weeks went by until a few options presented themselves. To my surprise where a few mountains in the South Island with a committing but achievable rock drop high enough to launch a wingsuit and get it flying. Not knowing a few names of some peaks in the photo’s I had found online I contacted the New Zealand alpine club to see if they could put names to face’s and if anyone in the climbing world had any tall tales of big walls in New Zealand. The reply from the NZAC delivered the goods. Names, locations and contacts but it was the last line which had me sitting up “I think the Kaipo is the biggest wall in New Zealand”. Hastily I googled the Kaipo Wall the first line I read was, this is New Zealand biggest wall at 1300m/4300ft, followed by a photo of a climber topping out showing a huge vertical section. I peak out and have a surreal feeling come over me as I sit in front of the computer. “This is it” I say aloud. “This is Aotearoa’s terminal wall”


Pioneering a base site amplifies the beauty of the game we play. Weeks sometimes months of planning can come to seconds. Pioneering project’s can be very intense and committing due to the fact there is often a lot of unknown’s. This is why it’s normally shared with the closest of base family. Trust and honesty are priority. That’s why I had no hesitation contacting Jason Cyran (JJJ) and Benjamin Macpherson. Over the years we have traveled the globe together and opened up several sites. There immediate reaction was a definite yes. None of us could miss out on an opportunity like this.

Over the next few months JJJ and I conversed via phone and email organizing logistics and the itinerary. Having him living in Queenstown for the summer was a bonus. Once we had dates and plans confirmed Benny and I loaded the van and departed on our two day journey to Queenstown where we would be based for the next three weeks.

Fiordland World heritage area located at 45 degrees latitude on the west coast of the South Island is notorious for its rainfall and generally disturbed weather.

So we had to be patient and wait for the perfect high pressure system. The next ten days involved serious meteorological study and deep discussion over climbing guides and topographical maps. A nightcap of green ginger wine helped settle the nerves. After a final gear check and a kai gathering mission we were on the road to Milford chasing the weather we needed to be successful. Early on in the planning of this expedition we discovered that one of the legal landing areas in Fiordland was the Ngapunatoru Ice plateau (7000 ft ASL). This would make a perfect base camp and provide us with excellent access to the top of the wall. On the 3rd of March we charted a helicopter from Milford Sound to the plateau.

Before landing on the glacier we were to call home for the next few days we requested the pilot fly over the edge of the wall so we could come face to face with Kaipo for the first time….. The void was huge. This ancient, glacial carved valley spanned more than 1.8 kilometers across and 1.4 kilometers high. We hovered a few hundred meters out in front of the wall. I sat stunned just steering into space, studying the features of granodiorite as they glisten in the morning sun.

The pilot has trouble ascending back to the glacier but eventually we land in between rivers of crevasses on a hard packed, semi flat piece of
ice. After unloading our packs and watching the chopper disappear into sun we were alone for the first time in the Darrans.

Leaving our gear we started navigating our way though bottomless crevasses and thin ice bridges up to the back of the wall. Touching the rock for the first time involved jumping off a cornice over small gap. From there we climbed up the dry sharp rock, lay down on the edge and peered down the wall. I get that feeling around height like something is trying to pull you off. A beautiful feeling really, especially if you’ve got a base rig on. The silence is broken “It’s a bit positive” The huge upper section of the wall was obstructed by a ledge about 300ft from the launch.

Over the next two hours we travel behind the wall searching for an exit point. Rock Drops return 4 seconds to impact and slightly more with a push. This was acceptable for an experienced wingsuit pilot but apart from being the first humans to dive off the Kaipo it was to be Benny’s first wingsuit BASE jump and JJJ was attempting to track it. Sickos. So we needed to be really confidant in our exit point selection. Benny suggested we travel left further down the wall towards the coast. Climbing angled slabs we discover the cleanest part of the wall. Even though it still had out crops of rock which impeded our vision with a big push it delivered a 10 second rock drop it would be tight but achievable. If the Kaipo was to be jumped this is where it would take place.




This was nick named Benny’s ledge. Now we know the Kaipo could be jumped our concerns were on how we were going to get out from the landing area. We had read of one access route to the valley floor and intended to use this to get back to camp.

After a late lunch and base camp set up Benny and I set out on a recon. 4 hours of climbing behind the wall and over glaciers gave us a vantage point where we could see the ridgeline we would climb to half way peak, a main reference point on the map. Sitting back at camp mongrelism stuffing our faces with hot noodles and tuna we decided jump at 9 o’clock. It wasn’t long before the boys were climbing into the tent; it was sub zero and getting colder. I stayed out for a bit and watched the sunset over the Tasman Sea.

Disturbed sleep and jump visualization would plague all three of us throughout the night. Being Benny’s first wingsuit flight off a huge remote wall that hasn’t been jumped and to top it off you can’t see past 400ft made for a restless night. JJJ was first up he wanted to watch the sunrise over Mt Tutoko. We weren’t far behind him. While waiting for water to boil we warmed up our legs by practicing positive two foot launch on the ice. I couldn’t help wondering if someone saw us that morning. What would they think seeing three idiots walking around in circles measuring standing jumps in the middle of nowhere. Porridge was then eaten in silence. True silence there was not a breath of wind.


This day was perfect! I can’t recall one word being spoken as we followed our footsteps back to the exit point. It was much the same as we geared up. It took a few moments to find Benny’s ledge again, remembering the wall is over a kilometer wide. After a few more rock drops to remember what was ahead of us. I found myself standing tall and exposed on the exit point. Silence again. After our final words and respects to each other I look down the valley and push hard and long driving my wingsuit off the wall. Out the top of my vision I watched the 4 second ledge come up and slide away. I’m flying I say to myself as I induce a steep smooth left hand carve to start lining up some ledges and angled sections of rock to play with. Speed = Lift I remind myself as I fly back at the wall to have closer look at a recessed glacier. Close is fun and that remains the theme of my flight. After a minute I bank off the wall and fly into the valley and pitch higher than normal due to the landing area being a boulder and scree field with streams and alpine bush everywhere.
Landing in the valley floor and looking back to where I had just come from was an overload.

I couldn’t pick out the exit point and could hardly work my camera as I was trying to contain my emotions. I opted to watch my brothers with my own eyes. JJJ is an orange speck screaming down a vast grey backdrop.

The mad bastard launched into a track or die jump and styled it. Taking angles in his track to find more height as he pulled off the wall into clean air. After a low pull and a quick turn under canopy he disappears into the scrub. Standing down the valley I steer back up at the wall looking for Benny. Suddenly I see a flash off to the right I turn to see a fast white wingsuit flying along the wall. Benny’s first base flight will defiantly be one to remember. He also styles it as I watch him pitch over my head then let loose a cream of elation that echoes down the valley. Benny landed right beside me. As you could imagine we were ecstatic. Before walking up and across the valley to meet JJJ.

We filled up the water bladders and took our first drink from the head waters of the remote Kaipo River. Probably the best water I’ve ever had. Together again we talk about our flights and experience at a hundred miles per hour. The energy was electric. A huge feeling of pride and relief carried us up the 10hour plus route on the eastern side of the valley to half way peak. We climb hard and fast over very steep terrain and were in striking distance of the plateau and the safety of camp mongrelism. As we pushed on the climb became extremely exposed and technical.

It wasn’t long before we realized continuing this route just too risky given the fact there were immanent death falls everywhere and time was running out we made the call as a team to turn back to the valley floor to seek shelter for the night. Knowing we weren’t going to make our rendezvous with the helicopter the following morning, which would probably result in a full scale search being launched. We began an epic walk down the Kaipo Valley searching for the only other legal and accessible landing area the Kaipo hut. As our map was due to end in 4 kilometers we had to rely on memory of other maps. Unfortunately our memories lead us on a 48 hour epic with no food and only our canopies for shelter. We covered over 40 kilometers of remote and dense bush which included 40 river crossings. During which we draw energy off each other taking turns at leading the charge with no quick solution insight. Eventually we arrive at the Tasman Sea.

The ever optimistic JJJ states “I’ve always wanted to go on a fast” as he wades through another section of river towards the beach. Even though we were still in good spirits we knew we had to let people know where we were, as we were soon to be missing persons in the Darran mountain system. So the next morning Benny strolled down the beach and triggered our remote locator beacon we jumped into the valley incase one of us had an accident. 5 hours later the distant rumble of a helicopter gets louder as Southland rescue honed in on our signal. Even though we weren’t happy about sounding the alarm.

It was necessary and we were commended by the crew for having the beacon. As we weren’t injured they left us on the beach and sent out Milford helicopter services to evacuate us back to Milford. Despite the alternate route home The Kaipo Wall expedition was a huge success on many levels. Personally this will go down as the most fulfilling and spiritual base adventures of my life not just for the sheer enormity of the project and wall. But for it’s location. My Home Country Aotearoa. And the awesome passionate people I was lucky enough to share it with.

Run Hard, Run Low!
Aotearoa B.A.S.E

Al!
Deepseed.

FREEFLY GUERRILHA IS VICE-CHAMPION!!!

Hi guys!!! Great news!!!

Freefly Guerrilha is Portuguese vice-champion!

Thanks to DEEPSEED for all!!!

Deepseed At the Aussie Nats

This Years Aussie Nats just took place at Sydney Skydivers in Picton Australia. Although Deepseed were not there in person, we were really well represented this year by our sponsored Guys. Just prior to the Nationals, The canopy Piloting nationals were held and Team Horizon (comprising Drew Lapinski 1st place, Matt Harris 6th place and Cameron Rolfe 8th place), who have just become part of the deepseed Team put in a great showing, along with Roger Mulckey 5th Place (who took a break from organizing this years Funny Farm to take part) and Mike Vaughan who followed up his solid showing at the World cup with 4th place. (photo Left to Right Drew, Cameron, Matt, Roger and Mike).

In the RW arena, We were represented by Team Crux. Crux went into the comp looking good,with high spirits and full of confidence. (In True Crux Form).

The Competition was very fierce, with Airtite, C4 and Snatch Force (The Aussie Women's 4-way team) the main competition. There were some great jumps and high scores but in the end Crux had to settle for 4th place. On an individual level, Jesse smashed a few canopies together in CF to get bronze in the 2 way, Sal took Silver in the open Freefly and Smithy took Bronze in the 8 way open. Nice work Guys, and next year I reckon they will be the team to beat..watch this space.

Last but definitely not least We were represented by Earth Leakage in the Freefly Comp. Adam, James, and Stewart, Fresh from Their Training camp in the Wind Tunnel in Eloy Arizona, Took Gold. The Team are going to be at the Funny Farm later this month, and then are planning another training Camp in Eloy ahead of the World Meet in Europe later this Year (August). Check out there new site to see there Dives from this years Competition...Nice Work Guys.

We are really proud to be associated with all these talented Skydivers, who as well as having a talent for Skydiving, also have an awesome appetite for life, and do things the right way. We justwant to congratulate them all on a job well done at the Nationals...Go Hard Fellas



Team Deepseed Rules!!

IN MEMORY HAYDEN ROWAN

Hayden Rowan

20/09/82 to 13/02/08

Hayden Rowan was tragically killed in Moshi, Tanzania, in a plane Crash, while working for Skydive Kilimanjaro. Hayden was just 25 years of age.

Hayden did his first Skydive in January 2006 at Taupo, after his parents gave Hayden and his younger brother Michael a skydive Voucher for Christmas 2005. Hayden was working as a motion Graphic designer in Wellington when Michael found details of the Diploma in Skydiving Course at Methven and Hayden then decided to pursue a career in skydiving.

He started the 8 month Diploma in April 2007. As part of the course, it's traditional for their 100th jump to do an "undie jump" Hayden wrote the following about his undie jump

"For your hundredth jump it is traditional that you do it in your underwear. Lucky for me it was a warm day (+1 at 12000 feet) and we were in the warm plane. I also joined in with some other people's (I dunno why) but the temperature on these jumps was -19, then you have 200 kph windchill to take into account, it was torture!"

After completing 170 jumps while on the course, he decided to go to Moshi Tanzania to do his 3 months and 30 jumps work experience. Hayden moved to Moshi in September 2007 and became a permanent employee of Skydive Mount Kilimanjaro as their camera man. Hayden's skydiving dream became his passion (he had found and was living his dream) Nothing would stop him from Skydiving as the following email he sent out to his family and friends shows.

" Had my first reserve ride today, on what I thought was a sweet pack job. All went sweet up till opening when I had a brake release and through me into line twists and a downward spiral. Anyway it was obvious pretty quickly that the twists weren't coming out so I cut away the main and flew around on my back for a bit and almost got stable when I pulled my reserve handle.

Anyhow the reserve opened between my legs which gave me some pretty mean burns on my leg. To say the opening was violent would be an understatement. I got whiplash in my back and I literallyy couldn't see for a few seconds. The reserve ride was agony but I managed a nice soft landing, and I laid there for a while until I realised that I needed to see where my main canopy was going to land. It gave the African Guys who work for us a bit of a scare, I don't think they had seen a cut away before. One of them ran off to get my canopy and ended up having to bribe a Masai 5000 shillings ($5 US) to get it back.

Anyway I went to the doctor, and I have just got some muscle damage to my back, so he said not to do anything for a few days....yeah right, unless I can't walk when I wake up, tomorrow I'll be jumping.


This letter was kindly written by Hayden's mum, Kathy, who in a display of the utmost courage and respect for the wishes of her two boys is supporting her other son Michael through the same diploma and into the sport that took away her son.

Jumpstart 2008 Doing it for the Kids

DON'T MIND DOING IT FOR THE KIDS

Every now and then you catch yourself feeling a bit low on life and wallowing in your own troubles and woes. It's times like these when you need to be reminded (through awesome Initiatives such as Pete Maher's Jumpstart) just how good you actually have it.

Pete came up with the idea last year of joining forces with the RNZAF and some leading Kids charities Canteen (supporting Kids with Cancer) and Project K (helping Kids maximise their potential), and getting a bunch of Tandem Masters (lets face it, we do have it pretty good), to donate their time for free to help give these kids the experience of a lifetime.

Hell Jumping out of a Herc is an experience most skydivers would kill for!!.

This Year, it is all happening again and with lessons learned from the inaugural event, is set to be bigger and better than ever.

Deepseed are providing Free T-Shirts to all the Kids and Staff, and YOU can make a donation either via the Jumpstart Website , or by buying a T-shirt for just $30 from Deepseed. Just email us at info@deepseed.com and tell us how many t-shirts you want to purchase. It's that simple!

All profits from the T-shirts will be going to the charities, so If you can't get to the event, and if you haven't sponsored one of the kids, You can still support the cause and have something that will help to remind you that you do have it pretty good compared to some people (just in case you find yourself wallowing in the blues in the future).

Deepseed Dave will be at the event, and we will bring you a full write up in Next month's Newsletter.

Team Crux in the USA

Team Crux in the USA

What a great idea lets leave Australia’s beautiful summer and go to a bitterly cold Arizona winter and spend thousands of dollars to fly in a wind tunnel. What compels us to do these things!

Who cares; its fucking fun !!!

Fly into LAX pick up the car and point it towards Arizona 8 boring hours later pull into the sky rider inn to crash out for a 4:30 am start.


For eight days straight we get up at 4:30-5:00am head over to the tunnel and relearn body position, block moves and re learn body position again and again until it sinks in to our thick heads. Thanks Joey Jones and Todd Hawkins for your persistance!

We spent two or three hours in the morning in the tunnel and the rest of the day creepering or jumping out of hot air balloons or high altitude jumps from 21000 feet. The guys at Skydive Arizona are awesome lots of cool people from all over the world come together at one drop zone to share skills and have fun.

Leaving Arizona was easy we had thrown all of our money at the tunnel and we were off to go base jumping In Idaho at the Perrine Bridge in twin falls. After stopping at a local base sight in Arizona to watch the crew from the drop zone got off a 400 ft rock in 15 knot winds we were pumped to get to the bridge and have some fun ourselvesYou drive over the bridge before you get into town so stopping to have a look over is a must. It doesn’t matter how safe people tell you it is you’re still shitting yourself just looking at it.





After meeting some of the locals we had to get used to the idea that you stroll out to the exit point take your time and go when you’re ready.

This was quite different to the base jumping we had experienced back home with Douggs running to the exit point of a 180 ft bridge quickly getting static lined three seconds of canopy flight then get in your car and get the fuck out of there.

I much prefer the Perrine Bridge.

We all got off about ten times each starting to have some fun with the 480ft bridge, back loops, side floaters and two way roll overs to name a few. Also a very cool experience jumping in the snow and watching a local pull a triple gainer and his canopy exploding before he dropped into the freezing cold water. He was fine once he was dried off and had some warm clothes on.

I have to say a special thanks to Ahren for showing us the ropes and taking us to some amazing places in Idaho including a beautiful hot spring up in the mountains covered in snow, very special.