A lot has been going on recently. Skydivers set a Colorado state record for bigway formation skydving Sunday August 28th. 69 skydivers jumped from 4 different planes (a King Air and Twin Otter from Mile-Hi, and a Skyvan and Twin Otter from Eloy, AZ) and played “beat the cypress.” The cypress is the Automatic Activation Device (AAD) that automatically opens your reserve for you if you’re still in freefall at a certain altitude (typically 1200ft AGL). There were no cutaways or cypress fires over the weekend. During bigway skydiving they are racing against time, or altitude, to complete the formation. Due to the number of people in the air they want maximum seperation from each other before deploying, it is not uncommon in bigway for a cypress to fire when the skydiver forgoes altitude for more separation.
Here is a video from the ground of canopies deploying on their jump BEFORE the record was broken. This was a 71-way attempt. (The link above has video from the air of the completed 69-way formation)
Sunday I was able to get in 3 jumps out of the Skyvan. The Skyvan is unique because the plane has a rear exit, as opposed to a side exit common in most jump planes.
I was browsing craigslist missed connections late at night last week trying to find myself and ended up on “1000 books for less than 5 cents each!” I emailed the seller and got a call the next morning, 2 hours later, that they were still available. They barely fit in my truck. So if you’ve ever wondered what 1000 books looks like, here you go -
After spending a day sorting through them all I ended up with a couple boxes of baby books and books that had the word “hath” on every single page (Christianity books). The rest of the lot wasn’t bad. Lemme know if you want a copy of “What to Expect When You’re Expecting,” I have enough to go around.
My friends from Static Thought came through Denver last week before finishing their tour friday in SLC. Johaan, their bassist and a friend and former bandmate of mine from high school invited me to roadie for them on their spring 2008 Europe tour. Needless to say, it was an amazing experience. To help them out we tore down a wall for them and bought them pizza.
22 days til Loveland starts making snow! I’m ready for winter, get your car camping recipes dialed!
Buy my shit! Never Summer SL 153 (’10-11), Atomic RT80 171 w/G3 Targas (’07-08), Scarpa Domina Women’s AT boots size 26 brand new!! (’10-11)
I went up to RMNP this past weekend to scout for snow, not much left.
As you’ve probably noticed I have a whole winter season missing from my blog. I guess I didn’t create space in my life last winter for social networking and blogging because I was too busy traveling to places like Monarch, A-Basin, Winter Park, Snowbird, Crested Butte, Aspen, Copper, Eldora, Steamboat, Quandry Peak, Loveland and some super-secret-bro backcountry spots. Also my smugmug account went down so all the pictures from seasons previous are gone. I’ll get all the pictures back up soon and update with trip reports from last season. I promise to be a better anti-social blog loser this winter in my quest for a free pair of sunglasses and new ski pants.
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