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Hey Guys..

Looking for advice on a place to stay for 4 people in Lauterbrunnen June.26-July.1

I've checked with Hotel Im Rohr and they are all booked up and haven't heard back from the Horner yet but I'm guessing they may be booked as well as its a popular place. Those were the only places I knew of as this will be my first time in the Valley.

Any help is appreciated

Thanks

If you don't mind staying in Wengen, check with Jenny. She has some nice places to rent.
http://www.wengenselect.com/

Valley Hostel any good? do they have an area available for packing?

Valley hostel is good but they re not specially big fans of basejumper...(and no place for packing). But the room, facilities and price are good (i was there2/3 years ago so maybe things changed)

Hey Shafty.

Ask Angie on https://www.facebook.com/hornerpub.apartments?fref=ts

She will get you sorted.

If not then You have Douggs and Jenny up in Wengen wich you can ask and there is Camping Jungfrau wich has chalets and tents and what not.

Im renting out a camper vann for 200 a week if you guys are intressted to travel around

Cheers

Dave

valley hostel is cool but gets booked up fast as well.. there is no specific packing area but you can use their back patio i believe.. they had a tarp out last i recall. four jumpers may be pushing it though.

camping jungfrau does NOT cater to base jumpers. you may sneak in if you avoid disclosing that is your purpose of the visit, but they have just had too many assholes stay with them and they are fed up with it.

if you dont mind spending cash you will find a spot.. lots of hotels in the valley. doing it on the cheap is what books up quick.

renting a camper/rv and sleeping in it is common, but then you have to worry about paying for parking overnight on top of rental fees. poor examples of people are getting busted circumventing the parking gates/charges at Stechelberg's parking lot also.. dont be one of these.

alternatively but not as conveniently you can check Wengen and Murren of course.

It´s not only the parking fees you have to worry about. Please read Michi´s post here http://www.basejumper.com/...post=2974800#2974800 and understand that it is illegal to camp in Switzerland outside of official camping grounds.

Also one good option for place to stay is Otto´s place in Stechelberg. Super nice people, awesome food and within walking distance from the landing area of all jumps in Stechelberg.

https://www.tripadvisor.com/..._Canton_of_Bern.html

BASEpoint is dead for long time now!

Do you have website or contact info?

http://hotelstechelberg.tcnet.ch/?lang=en. I think they are also on booking.com, I think I booked couple of summers through them.

BASEPOINT is back open. but is called Base cafe now. The bar is still shut for a little bit longer but accommodation is open and people have already been staying there.

https://www.facebook.com/BASE-Cafe-1574710806099046/

What is the weather like there this time of year? i was looking at forecasts...does it pretty much rain every day until august or so?

It's the mountains. It can rain any day, or be sunny any day, or do both in the same day pretty much any time in the whole year

(Except for winter, then substitute snow for rain.)

Its been quite good laterly jumping most days and its nice and quite. Hiked Blackline about a week ago, but last couple of days has been a bit shit with some wind and snow up top...

thx for the reply. debating on heading there for a few weeks

Maybe this helps:
https://www.swisswebcams.ch/...terbrunnen%29_Wetter
or
http://www.bergfex.ch/...engen/webcams/c4692/

Yep... That helped. I'll be staying at the horner pub apts 7/7-7/10 this year. First trip to the valley!

You've never been there?

Dang...I wonder if that's a record for jumping the longest without going to LB?

Just over 11 years with no intention of ever going.

I'm a slacker! 14 years in the sport and I've only jumped in the US and a few in Costa Rica.
Wife wanted to do a Europe trip this summer. All the normal boring tourist stuff... I said sure, so long as we stop in Switzerland and the ITW. I'm psyched! I'm basically only a slider off jumper so I just recently pulled the tracking suit out of storage and I'm spending all next weekend at my favorite 1800' A running laps and remembering how to track.

I was the jumper that the history channel filmed for "most dangerous" during your course. That was in 2008. Never been to LB =)
Turned out to be a cool episode

I too am mostly a Slider-OFF jumper and have been
to both locations only once on a trip with my wife.
Here are My two best pieces of advice:

Do a few practice jumps in the suit from a 182
get out as low as your pilot will allow and do a
hard track from exit to pull, no alti, no wave off.

Visit ITW before LB

i think this is a bad advice. with a skydive rig it's definitely way to dangerous and will bring no benefit at all. a hard track until pull was my biggest fold at my first few cliff jumps at brento (sumo, osp, slow slider).
at 200 kmh the openings was really uncomfortable hard and the last jump with 213 kmh opening speed was fucking painful... seeing stars and not being sure if the neck is ok wasn't nice. after that i drove back home and praciced to flare before pull out of a plane.

in my opinion it's ok to jump brento without very good tracking skills but before jumping in lauterbrunnen you have to make sure that you are a good tracker.

to find the right pull altitude it is a good idea to watch every video you can find from the jumps you plan to do. ask yourself which performance is probably closest to your performance and focus on this videos. add some more altitude to make sure to reach the landing and you should be fine.

ps this are just the 2 cents of a newbie pussy

Stupid.

https://youtu.be/hJSdSKDe9Wg?t=35m57s

Here's the link if you want to see child celebrity Chris Wilson, a flip phone, fat Tom, and not a single gopro.

LOL dude, that's your best piece of advice? WTF is the rest of your advice like?

Is getting out of a 182 low somehow supposed to replicate the feel of a base jump? You're still exiting with airspeed and opening half a kilometre above base pull height - so really you're just making a skydive more dangerous and less legal for who gives a fuck what reason?

Well there's your problem:
Personally if I'm skydiving, I'll be going to full alititude to get the most out of the jump in terms of time to practice flying my body/wingsuit.

And for the record I don't like to dump while pinning out my track, I prefer to flare it a bit at the end. Otherwise it leads to slammer openings, or in the past with larger jumpers, damaged gear.

Since my ideas are in Green they are easy to ignore.

Yes, SKY jumps at 14,000 feet or 4267 meters is a
great way to learn a new suit - Zero argument here.

However, getting out at 3,500 feet and pulling at 2,500
gives you just 10 to 12 seconds of flight in Straight line
but at better AIR DENSITY and still at a safe pull altitude.

I dont NEED that beal!!!