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Hi there, so what do you guys do when the winter comes here in the northern hemisphere? Norway is dark all day long, exitpoints in Switzerland and Italy can only be jumped with a sled I would imagine.. France must be cold af too. So... Since I hate bad weather, I was thinking, either go to the southern hemisphere where there are big walls and socioeconomic problems, or, just stick to the not so cold parts of Europe and put the slider down what do you think?

Other than New Zealand where are the big walls in the southern hemisphere?

If you can afford to travel then travel

South Africa, Brazil, Peru or equador.. I don't remember. These are some I just thought on the top of my head, I'm sure there must be other unexplored spots in other countries

You imagine wrong. The high exits in CH and Italy are closed for the winter but the mickey mouse valley and ITW are normally jumpable all year (on a normal winter). I guess ITW can get get serious snow cover and it can be closed for some weeks but LB mostly works all year. I actually prefer jumping in LB in winter (over summer) as there´s less people, no wind and it´s super beautiful there.

ITW is jumpable year round. It is jumpable all day in the winter usually and the winters there are pretty dry.

Skydiving & BASE jumping

happen 366 days a year

in Florida & California

...and cold

and I may go there... Thought about it many times. I spent one winter in California and sworn to never again.. oh well, I wasn't south enough..
But Florida sounds really good, would love to. If you need a packer I'll be there tomorrow

I found it cold at night but very reasonable during the day and im from california :)

Around here with no legal objects nearby, we tend to jump more. Sunset is early so you can jump and still get to bed at a reasonable hour. There aren't any damn mosquitoes. No corn in the LZ. Moonlight on snow lights everything up really well.