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I know that there are all sorts of other BASE #'s out there: Night BASE, Elvis BASE, Naked BASE, Gainer BASE etc...

Just wondering for my own information...

Who's got Heroin or Methadone BASE, MDMA BASE, Blacked Out BASE, Etc...


P.S. This is a brand new profile to protect my sterling reputation.

Pill BASE was somewhat popular amongst some around here, not for awhile though. We're working on Sex BASE right now, Spain should be great next week!

i dont feel like blacking out and climbing an antenna ok

That's what elevators are for...

anyone got blindfolded base?

Two of the more popular BASE numbers are Broken BASE (injured at least once on each object) and BASE Arrest (arrested at least once at each object).

I still need an "A" for both of them, and maybe an "E" for Broken BASE too, as I'm unsure whether Broken BASE requires surgery, plaster or at least an ER visit to qualify (I limped away after doing the Bastille in Eldorado Canyon but needed no medical attention).

As for the laundry list you mentioned, I think they all fall within the Stoner BASE list, though that one's hard to follow because most people who qualify can't remember whether they did or not, a situation similar to Alzheimer's BASE, which is awarded to people who can't remember at least one jump from each object. These awards are both elusive because it's hard to know if you qualify because if you can't remember the jumps you can't remember, ithey don't count.

Any other questions?

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Acid BASE was attained early on. 1988 or something. The rules were any hallucinogen. Not always LSD.

No kidding. Those were the acid days.

I think I got the first naked E.

In the earliest days, numbers were kept for each object. At least up to 50 or so, but most objects had less than 10. I have a really early Half Dome number as well as a ton of #1's and #2's.

I preferred to do the #2. Let your buddy go first. If he doesn't hit anything then get her done.

I knew the old schoolers would have some good stories about substance abuse and BASE!

Robin, have you ever heard of anyone with Object Strike BASE, i.e. hitting all four? And with the new 8 Go-Pro's to 1 jumper ratio Stoner/Alzheimers BASE is easier to verify, even if the Drug Addict/Old Guy can't remember the jump...

104, any one done Naked Acid BASE, or is that a new frontier for us to conquer?

Mike M. has BASE strike. I believe he was BASE strike #1, but perhaps someone else did it before him.




Ask Outrager.

I´m pretty sure it has been done already but one of my goals in base is to get a Tree BASE#, so to make a qualifying tree landing from all of the 4 objects. No small bushes or something counts, has to be a proper tree! Who´s claiming #1? I´m still missing B and S... :)

I have a friend who has a tie dye t-shirt that says "Blotter is my Spotter" that he made to commemorate his first Acid Free Solo.

The same guy still has a "Sport Climbing is Neither" bumper sticker, too.

The last itme I saw Mike M he was at the 1st Go Fast Games. I heard he was object strike BASE, but then he topped himself by jumping the bridge and hitting the cliff... a bridge jump with a wallstrike, and yeah he went to the hospital also.

Oh yeah, my Wife and I both have object strikes. Are we "Married Strike" #1:/?

any "Wingsuit BASE #'s" out there?

The Canadians have a naked-sub zero BASE number going.

LOL... "A" thwarts me again... I have the other three:

B= Petronas (2000)
A= <nullset>
S= Royal Gorge (2003)
E= Black Canyon (2001)

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The acid things came as a result of you nasty old big wall rock climbers gettting into our virgin sport. As I'm sure you recall, those of us with whom you first partied and associated in the world of BASE, were straight arrows until polluted by the mentality of many rock climbers of the day. Funny, I forgot, I did some rock climbing in college. Maybe there is a reason for that. PS, where's Tom C these days?
Rick
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I can't believe he forgot his rock climbing...

No Rick, I could send you a message on who did Acid Base (as far as I know, he is the only one) and it would surprise you. Not a climber.

I do remember how things did get a little weirder after Phil and others would would have a chance meeting on top of El Cap with Cosgriff and then Cosgriff flying past me on Mescalito...getting me into a new bunny hole of BASE.

As for the Blotter is My Spotter shirt, that would probably be Verm. I have one of the originals of that shirt still in a drawer. It was a bunch of Colorado climbers who did those.

Hoover's strike was one of the cool ones like Spiderbaby's. Fly into the building. Hoover was inside for maybe a second before his canopy yanked him back out. Spiderbaby had accuracy skillz, so he safely landed inside the building and then took the elevator the rest of the way down.

You could hit a building 200 times and never come out with a story that cool.

If Hoover hadn't been jumping a huge canopy on his 120 lb. frame, he would have been toast. As it was, he just needed stitches.

There is a whole story about that.

I have been yacking about some of the crazy days with Nic Feteris this week, and we need to all write them down and send them to one email box for posterity. It doesn't have to be Hemingway.

I have some amazing Yosemite stories that haven't seen the light of day after over 20 years. Some older than that. Paranoia still follows me around, although they weren't too bad in a legal sense.

Dudes and chicks are old and have big jobs and kids and stuff, so some stories stay quiet.

Tom is a big cheese offshore drilling supervisor in Norway. Still climbs hard. Wicked good shape.

Who was it who packed him that pilot chute in tow off that building in Houston? Did you witness that, Rick?

Yep. He had so few skydives that he didn't know how to really pack, so somebody did a pilot chute in tow on him. He got his reserve out just before impact. Limped away.

That was a 1000 footer or something.

I remember that you guys snuck him onto a plane on his first skydive and built an 8-way around him.

Among climbers, the goal was to just get the BASE number with the fewest skydives possible. On purpose. To prove you had a strong mind or something.

I was the first one to figure out that that was stupid and ended up skydiving and BASE jumping my ass off. Then came a long string of others.

To be all tucked into your portaledge on an El Cap route and then have jumpers fly right over you, and then open and holler back and forth with, might be the coolest experience ever. Tom opened right level with us and we exchanged a few sentences. Then he got busted and ended up washing fire engines for the Yosemite Penal System for five days.

That is why there are a bunch of climbers who now jump. It is unreal cool to watch it from the wall. The noise of a tracking jumper is SOOOOOOO LOUD!!!

Mind blowing. I only saw it a few other times when jumping giant A's all night with friends. You would be climbing up the ladder when somebody went by in the darkness.

Edit: As to the keeping of object numbers, it was easy because there were so few jumpers that everyone knew everyone else. In the whole world.

Robin came up to me at Bridge Day once with Don Broyles and Don gave me a patch and I got my Royal Gorge number. I need to go look it up in my old logbook. 16 or something. Still have the simple little patch. A treasured memento that overshadows the wicked road rash I got from downwinding it on the railroad tracks and face planting.