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wormly81
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Zero Wind Exit - Beer time
So I know nothing about BASE yet but had to share the adventure of my first Zero Wind exit...

1:30 am Friday night at a Bar-b-que - Overheard someone saying theres room on a balloon in 4 hours.

2:00 am - figured out that I could borrow some gear and started the drive

3:15 am - arrived at said gear

5:00 am - all packed up and back in the car

6:00 am - physically shaking as they inflate the balloon

7:00 am - running across an onion field to get into the balloon

7:14 am - feels like theres a tilt-a-whirl carnival ride going on in my brain

7:15 am - standing on the rim looking at a much closer world than I'm used to, knowing I'm landing out on a new canopy

7:16 am - launched, stable, pitched, two practice flares, stay clear of the crop duster which is flying laps around the farm, lining up the road, running out the landing

7:17 am - Recognize I'm fucked for life

7:18 am - Recieve physical threats from farmer

7:19 am - Can't figure out whether its the adventure or the actual jump that has me higher than a... well... hot air balloon?
freeflychris
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Re: [wormly81] Zero Wind Exit - Beer time
wormly81 wrote:
So I know nothing about BASE yet but had to share the adventure of my first Zero Wind exit...

1:30 am Friday night at a Bar-b-que - Overheard someone saying theres room on a balloon in 4 hours.

2:00 am - figured out that I could borrow some gear and started the drive

3:15 am - arrived at said gear

5:00 am - all packed up and back in the car

6:00 am - physically shaking as they inflate the balloon

7:00 am - running across an onion field to get into the balloon

7:14 am - feels like theres a tilt-a-whirl carnival ride going on in my brain

7:15 am - standing on the rim looking at a much closer world than I'm used to, knowing I'm landing out on a new canopy

7:16 am - launched, stable, pitched, two practice flares, stay clear of the crop duster which is flying laps around the farm, lining up the road, running out the landing

7:17 am - Recognize I'm fucked for life

7:18 am - Recieve physical threats from farmer

7:19 am - Can't figure out whether its the adventure or the actual jump that has me higher than a... well... hot air balloon?

Good job not killing yourself.
Calvin19
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Re: [wormly81] Zero Wind Exit - Beer time
congrats!
tell the farmer to suck it.

no offense to skydivers and ignorant BASE jumpers, but the beer rule/'firsts' thing is for fucking idiots.
GreenMachine
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Balloons & Beer
Congrats dude on your first balloon jump!
I did mine at the '03 WFFC in Rantoul, IL
with sub-200 skydives and jumping then
from pull altitude was scary.

As for beer rules, I am gold wings exempt
but still I like the ones in BASE much better.
You buy beer if someone teaches something
or hooks you up with a new object and a free
place to crash. Note to Tally visitors Wink
justinharker
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Re: [Calvin19] Zero Wind Exit - Beer time
Calvin19 wrote:
no offense to skydivers and ignorant BASE jumpers, but the beer rule/'firsts' thing is for fucking idiots.
seriously! people tried to get me to do it for my first reserve ride when i had a biplane. I'm like hell no! This sport is expensive as it is why add more on top of it!

I don't know. It probably wouldn't be as big of a deal to me if i was a drinker.

I do still mean to pay up the bottle of booze to the rigger who packed my reserve (even though we think it is cause how he put on the rsl that made my reserve come out in the first place).