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Anyone accessorize their basegear?

i have two things.:
a rock that managed to get in my PC (serves well as an internal handle)
and a string of bead that i picked up that were next to me when i broke my tibfib on an urban jump..


lucky items of power... :)

Items Found:

A small toy Barney Gumble figure that
says "Homey" when you push a button.
Found it in Twin Falls LZ in 2008 while
collecting trash, he now lives in my loft.

Medium sized rock found inside my Troll
now lives in my minature Zen rock garden.


Talisman:

My gear closet has a green and white flag
that I flew during the opening jumps from
a building in Sibu, a green rope with bells
from Indian, jade trigram from China, and
I burn incense inside my gear closet.

pulled a used condom out of my canopy after jumping in manhattan... didn't keep it though

i'm thinking of putting a 1%'er patch on my rig since so few of my jumps are legal. similar to the 1%'er motorcycle club philosophy.

Saw a rig tag WFFC on the Capitan.
take care, space

After opening, I could see a silly band in the shape of an elephant inside my center cell. Glad it wasnt a real elephant.

after drying my canopy from a water landing, i found probably a hundred or so tiny dead minnows in my cells

Very interesting, 150 jumps on an unrinsed canopy that was landed in saltwater leads to line failure 5 times quicker than fresh water minnows.
Take care,
space,
PS hop0e we jump soon ande have sushi.

reminds me of this post
http://www.basejumper.com/...k%20manbird;#1287556

A friend of mine stitched a T-rex onto his rig. We all got a good laugh out of it, first jump on his new T-rex rig he had linetwists off a 900ft A and literally kicked out 2 seconds before flaring and kicking off a building landing on his hip.

We agreed that dinosaurs don't belong on BASE jumps

I found a hard back copy of the Kama Sutra under a bridge once. It's in my collection of weird shit I found while jumping. It was weathered and had damage that alludes to the fact that it was tossed from the bridge into the canyon.

i once found a super-cool carry-with-you static line system that someone broke on a jump. Didn't keep it though, seemed like bad ju-ju!