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http://news.ninemsn.com.au/...lams-into-cliff-face

Did you also know that most journalists can count to potato? I even heard of the one that counted as far as jello. He had the smart.

It was a 180 with line twists. He's an experienced and super heads up jumper. The winds were perfect but this was a shit happens moment which turned out really well in the end.

SAR did an awesome job of getting to him and the officer doing the press release was misquoted in every article I have seen so far. Haha, I spent some time talking to the SAR guys and they rescue hikers and climbers out there pretty much every week.

Fox News just called requesting an interview regarding this incident. I wasn't in the mood for a bunch of questions such as "why do BASE jumpers continue to put rescuers in danger". I just don't see any good coming out of an interview like this and hopefully others will say "no" as well.

The "American" generalizations posted by non-American jumpers are getting VERY OLD.

Good luck to the jumper.

oops, I packed it backwards again....

And if Jeb had jumped from a stool, he would have cleared the ledge

another thread has been started in the Incidents forum.

that seems like a better location, so I'll lock this one.