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How specific do you get in details of your jumps and locations?
Has anyone got charged or new charges for logbooks?

no addresses. Just the nickname of the object and it's height and anything special. no charges because i am like a ninja

Was gonna write mine in pig-latin... then I figured the cops might be able to crack it, being pigs and all.

What is this "logbook" thing which you speak of? I don't understand.

Nick, NUGGENT ALERT!!!

Nugent?

I guess it is log book technically

No legal requirement to keep a logbook, so why bother? It's only numbers & ego.

seriously, another fucking logbook thread? geezus this is getting old.

Uh, 'cus some people like to? Hell does it matter to you?

When a gendarme one time threatened to use the entries in BASE 46's log book against him, Mark snorted: "Good luck. That's a comic book I wrote to get laid."

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The only way anyone can get busted for a logbook is if they consent. How are the so called authorities going to prove anything in that book is a fact? They can't, that's why they get you to incriminate yourself.

atty: Your honor, I would like to admit into evidence one 'logbook' where intimate details are kept as to the location, date as well accomplices that were involved in these illegal acts.

judge: ...alright mr. atty, I'll allow that.

atty:Mr. BASE jumper is this your 'logbook'?

BASE: Yes.

atty: No further questions.

well i do/did logbook as rembering the stories specialy about that jump,i find it rather funny reading it and see mates funky signatures in case they drunk signed the book..

but the cool thing about BASE really is that there are NO rules so if some one wants to log their jumps just for the #´s why give a shit i saw no BASErule telling you couldnt

another # i only got 1 jump in this year so far,way too less

I had a logbook once, but then I used up all the pages to wipe my ass with when I was scared on exit points. That 1000-paged book was used up pretty quick. Hopefully the angry authorities don't find those poo tickets!

+1.

My logbook is a personal treasure, an authentic record of epic times with so many amazing individuals, some no longer with us.

its pretty cool to be able to blast back in time, with just the reading of a passage.

if anyone's too cool for a log book, well then i guess you're cooler than me.
cheers. -b

OK. Famous story. Really old days. Yosemite. I was living there climbing and jumping. Most experienced jumper in the world (200) shows up, nabs me out of the bar to go do HD. This skydiver drops us off. We walk about 200 yards and realize it is too windy and sneak back to Camp 4. Next morning got a tip from a climber and then run into quivering youngster who dropped us off. He got pulled over and searched and busted for pot or something. In the car they find famous jumper's logbook, which was also his address book for pretty much every active jumper in the country. And dates and objects and names of everyone on the load.

So Nic Feteris is leaving the country and jumps the statue of liberty...guaranteed bust, but being deported wasn't a problem.

When they pulled him in, after a few hours they came back with a computer list of every jump, date, object of every jump he had done with famous jumper. This was when computers were very slow.

Nothing became of it. I talked to an attorney and he said that you can put whatever you want in a logbook and say you do it to impress chicks or to pad the number of jumps or whatever. Not really quality evidence. But I am sure it will be done to someone someday.

But I tell ya, there were probably twenty plain clothes cops surrounding Camp 4. They had gotten that much out of the kid. Then ensued an exciting black ops operation. No jump. No laws broken. They rangers were going totally berserk, though, because they knew this guy and had never caught him.

EDIT: I bet that this is the story that Heid is talking about, but I was there. The full story has most likely never seen the light of day. A lot of climbers helped us out. They had us surrounded, but only had a vague description of me.

How do the authorities get your logbook anyway? Do you carry it with you on every jump?

They had bopped over from Lodi after some comp and the car was full of skydiving gear. They got his wallet, everything. This wasn't a normal situation that they had planned out. To top it all off, this was 46, who had the most jumps in the world at that time, many in Yo, and the rangers had a hard on for him like you would not believe.

Man, I wish I was sitting around a campfire recounting some of the old valley stories. Very old stories, from the time when BASE totally broke away from skydiving. How ethics evolved, all that. Ethics arose out of necessity. There were so few BASE jumpers back then. All of the hardcores knew each other no matter where you were in the world. It was a small bunch back then. The ones who took it up as a full blown lifestyle.

I spent much of my youth climbing and living in the valley. Then I got into BASE and it nigh killed my climbing. So I was lucky to see the whole thing evolve.

So, Mr. 1500, it all took place before you were even born. Fun times, though. Best of my life.