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I just wish some one had gotten a rope and walked out their and just pulled her ass back up with out making a big fuss out of this.

So for the climber/rescue guys here. If you were to lower a rope to the jumper how would you have the jumper attach the rope to themselves? My first thought would be some sort of sling with a bowline looped under their arms and through the harness. Im sure there are better ways but I'm not a rope guy or a knot guy.

if it was a pca it was not her judgment she did not know any better, it was the judgment of the person trainning her who probably shouldnt be

if it was a pca it was not her judgment she did not know any better, it was the judgment of the person trainning her who probably shouldnt be

I just wish some one had gotten a rope and walked out their and just pulled her ass back up with out making a big fuss out of this.

Lee

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Base girl appears to be uninjured.

I personally have seen someone almost go in doing something stupid every time I've been since 2000.

People have been so complacent at this bridge. Just because people do FJC's there doesn't make it safe. No base jump is ever safe. People need to be more careful and use better judgement. ffs

Where are the mentors is these situations? Are you guys just finally saying "Fuck it. Let them do what they want"? If this girl is getting PCA'd, I can only assume she is doing a FJC. Who is advising her that it is ok to jump in 28 mph winds? Even if she is experienced, who is holding her PC?

My Mentor once told me a story about how one guy burnt a building somewhere in the US. The other jumpers got pissed found a bunch of tar and feathers , drove to the guys house, forced him out of his house in the middle of the night, tied him up and tarred and feathered him in his own yard... I think we need to bring back the good old fashion ways of taking care or nuisance jumpers.

Am I missing any thing here....
Kinda hoping that their might some how be an explanation for all of this.

Maybe the fact that a vagina makes men do stupid shit?

I wonder how much experience she had, and if it was a rollover?!

Oh these forums...

In Moab, with a large group of experienced jumpers...some people jump in 15+mph crosswinds and everything works out great. A few people will say "oh that was silly" or "they shouldn't have done that" or "oh those crazy kids"...but then that's it. Noone really cares.

An unknown person jumps *the perrine* in unknown wind conditions (probably windy) and gets hung up. Everyone makes wild assumptions with no information and then lambastes from the arm chair with the threat of TAR AND FEATHERS! THE BRIDGE IS RUINED FOREVAR!!!! Oh wait...titties? TITTIES!!!! TITTIES!!!lulcakes *fapfapfapfapfap*

*sigh*. Just go jump something instead of posting. It's easy to be a perfect jumper on the sofa with a tub of ice cream and tissues.

100 Base jumps and she's being PCA'd from the Bridge?

Who knows. Maybe 100 jumps is 100 skydives and not BASE jumps. Or maybe she was nervous coming back after a long hiatus and wanted her first jump back to be PCA. Although she looks too young to have been in and then out of the sport that long. Too many unknowns.

Totes.

When everyone is at the bar, bus, or train, tying the proverbial one on, they be like "so no shit, there I was, knee deep in hand grenade pins, 30 knot headwind with 75 knot gusts cross, jumping a Soviet cargo canopy stuffed into a racer three sizes too small with a broken chest strap into a landing area filled with flowing magma and sharks. Look at my balls." On the forum everyone is like "RANDO NOOB FAILED TO FOLLOW SECTIONS B AND Y OF SUB-PARAGRAPH 3, PARAGRAPH 17 OF THE BSOP!! ALL MUST DIE!!!! YOU WILL DESTROY BASE FOR EVER! MY FATHER DIDN'T LOVE ME AND I CUDDLED WITH MY MENTOR! IF IRAQ HAD A MENTOR, THERE WOULD BE NO ISIS!" Thees sheet, I don't understand. Whatevs, I've sold all my BASE gear to buy jewels so I can upgrade my town hall and hidden Teslas to max levels. Hella thug.

"Yesterday was not new to us, simply because we have performed that rescue once before in 2007," said Lt. Daron Brown, Special Operations Director, Twin Falls County Search and Rescue.

But Brown says BASE jumpers are not at as big of a risk as many think.

Last year, search and rescue only responded six times to an accident at the Perrine Bridge. Thousands of people jump from the bridge every year without incident.

"The BASE jumpers absolutely take caution in what they do, it's an extreme sport but they still try to be as safe as they can, doing it," said Brown. "It's an extreme sport, BASE jumping. Obviously, sometimes with extreme sports there are accidents and the people that do this understand that."

Together, the agencies train hard for those accidents. However, this kind of a rescue was a first for Smith.

"That's our job to help people and to train for it, and it's what we are here for," Smith said.

BASE jumpers do a lot for the Twin Falls community, bringing visitors from around the world who help boost the local economy.

Chad Smith, the special operations director for Magic Valley Paramedics, says he’s had mixed feelings about these kind of rescues costing tax payers money, but said BASE jumpers bring in a lot of money for tourism in the way of hotels and other accommodations. He said some daredevils who go to the popular location to jump, even donate money towards search and rescue.

“The rescuers that were out here were on duty,” says Brown. “They’re getting paid whether they’re out here doing a rescue or sitting behind a desk doing paperwork.”

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Brown adds that Twin Falls rescue personnel usually respond to a BASE-jumping accident maybe six times a year. About 100 jumps from Perrine Bridge occur on a nice day, he said. BASE jumping is statistically “safer than most other extreme sports,” the report says.

She did her groundschool at elsinore. Completed less than 5 jumps. Not sure if she continued on. She had previous base jumps prior to attending her ground school for level 1 AFF.

How long was she suspended in the harness?

Anyone have actuals from time of the incident to when SAR Shows up and when she was safely off the object?

thx

if it was a pca it was not her judgment she did not know any better, it was the judgment of the person trainning her who probably shouldnt be