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Really bummed, depressed cuz no jump in over two weeks secondary to weather. Tonight, I wondered if i was just being a pussy, though I smelled like one cuz I just fed the cats tuna outside... How many hardcore jumpers on this forum will climb a tower, in light rain, winds averaging ten knots, temps. in low to mid thirties and at night to make a jump?? How about solo at that?? 15 years ago i stuck bathtub non slip strips to a local tower at 700', but they are long gone now. It's a mental thing, but who does it??
feeling down in Ky

In Canada we call those perfect conditions
Especially in March/April

Hope that doesn't explain that cervical fusion in your avatar!!!!

touché!

Sorry, to some that may sound like smart ass response. That's just my reflexive nature. Do you use any additional safety equipment? I found cable ascenders for tower workers online but they are 275 dollars. Usually itseems the rime ice type shit on the ladder is gone by 75 feet or so in winter conditions.

don't mind the cold, but i don't like getting wet.

as long as the conditions are good to "jump" i don't really discriminate. i'm also really not all that hard core.

i climb and jump so many freakin' antennas that they really are just not all that special to me. and unless OSHA is watching, i would never bother with "safety-climbs".

I've got a couple spares. Want me to send you one?

I lucked out and finally scored
one on ebay for $36 with shipping

Never used it on inside climbs but I
do have an outside climb that I want
to have it for.

Yeah, I know, I got a big green vagina

in winter time we normally jump under -10-20 Celsius, sometimes under 25-30 celsius

Ya sometimes up here in Canada we get so much ice on the bottom 100' of antenna that no matter the conditions it's safer to jump than it is to climb down.
As for safety gear.......don't let go of the ladder. lol

i hate climbing a tower with any rain. water condenses on the tower and it runs down the ladder, down my hands, down my arms, and then down my abdomen. yuk!

You have learned well young Jedi, I can now pass on the teaching torch to you

I agree. Antennas, power towers, etc. If its raining i'm not jumping. call me a pussy, a dry pussy that is. Now if its a cool unique jump, well then I might jump. But with a climb and rather misarable conditions, eh Im good. I am not that hard up to jump. I remember when I was learning to sky jump in Oregon a decade ago, some of us would jump in almost any condition during the winter. Now I understand why some jumpers would just say "im good".

Me and a buddy jumped in fairly crappy conditions this past weekend. Barely quit raining, very wet, light wind, very dense fog. We could barely see the ground from 300ft. Cool visual, but creepy!

I totally know what you are talking about. Last winter a friend was visiting and we went to a building. When approaching I couldnt "see" the top of the building. I could see slightly above openening altitude and below. We were in a city so light was ample. But because everything looking down from the exit had this well fuzzy apperance, we went hand held. I was totally soaked after that one. And I totally noticed the lack of penetration my canopy was getting from just two nights earlier. Moisture highly effected my glide.

I was gonna go jump the power tower the other day, was fucking wet, damp and miserable but good winds from the south.

I pussed out when i thought about how that thing zaps us even when we are dry.

Now who would climb it, with tons of climbing gear, when the icicles are forming on the rungs, after midnight, with well below zero windchill, to rescue a canopy left after a hangup, with a friend/canopy owner who was still suffering from frostbite from the hangup??? Ahh, what are friends for???

Hello,

When I was pushing hard back in the days I jump in pretty much every weather condition, have even a few tower jumps in blizzards ...

Now days, nope =) I wait for better weather.

PerFlare
Swedish BASE Team

BASE is all about risk management. jumping in lousy weather increases a variety of risks.

if you are willing to jump in rain, wind, and snow, ask yourself if you are willing to be lying in the mud, busted up, at risk of hypothermia? a solid ground crew seems like a wonderful addition.

Shit, that doesn't sound any worse then my 36 hour stint at the bottom of the cruz gulley ?spelling after that horrific black canyon "climbing accident" I had in 94. Had no idea that poison ivy grew at altitude in colorado in early winter, that hard rain could wash boulders the size of v.w.'s down the wash I was in, that mountain rescue could enjoy those elements so much, and that nps could be such a dick to try and prosecute me for over 5 years when I was hiking and enjoying nature in MY national park treasure...