Re: [usmc1775] NEED HELP Locating Hurt/dead Friend Please
To recap the information that we know:
The jumper's name was Scott Wesley Denham. He holds a USPA C license, and we've located him in the database. He reportedly began jumping somewhere in the Midwest, but was mostly active in California.
He had an address in Truckee, CA at one point. He had also apparently lived in Visalia, CA and Glendale, CA (in LA). His last reported residence was in Valencia, CA.
He was jumping with a guy named Chad, from Oregon, within the last few weeks. This is not Chad from Seattle, who posts here.
He was reportedly jumping with a guy named Mike at the time of his disappearance. Mike is reportedly an itinerant jumper, who was headed back to Florida or the Gulf Coast shortly after this jump, and is probably there now.
Scott had worked as a packer at the Elsinore dropzone last summer, but they had not seen him since approximately September. During that time, he had made few, if any, skydives, mostly just packing and hanging out. He was not known to Elsinore area BASE jumpers as an active BASE jumper. He appears to also have been largely unknown in BASE circles in the greater Los Angeles area.
Scott had been injured in a landing accident at a dropzone in Oregon in approximately September. It sounds like this was the result of jumping a highly loaded canopy at an unfamiliar DZ.
Scott had inquired about taking a First Jump Course from Corky in Taft sometime in the last year. He had then resurfaced, several months later, saying that he had completed a First Jump Course with Consolidated Rigging. Neither CR nor Asylum have any record of his having completed an FJC with them.
Scott had apparently been jumping mostly solo, in the LA and Taft areas. He had been seen to jump a relatively low profile site in full daylight, and had been confronted about this with no real result.
Scott called his mother late the night of January 17th or early the morning of January 18th. He told her that he was going to make a BASE jump.
Scott also talked to his girlfriend at approximately the same time. She believes he was in Glendale, CA, when he called her. He told her that he was going to make a BASE jump, and that he would be at the jump site within 45 minutes.
The night of January 21st, a guy named Mike called Scott's family. He spoke to Scott's sister. He told her that he had been jumping with Scott on the 18th, and that Scott had gone in on that BASE jump. He also said that he was going back to Florida, or the Gulf Coast. He gave no other information.
If anyone has any information about this, including;
a) Any way to find Chad, from Oregon;
b) Any way to find Mike, from the Gulf Coast or Florida;
c) Any knowledge of a BASE accident in California sometime in the last week;
d) Any other information about this stuation,
I would greatly appreciate any information you can share.
I can be contacted here via Private Message, via email at
tbaiello@mac.com or via telephone at 208 420-2602.
Thanks!
