Congratulations has got to go out to crwper, who opened up the first big wall (a 1200+ foot vertical chunk of granite) in the area Sunday -- disproving the theory, again, that Canadians disintegrate when the go past 3 seconds.
Congratulations has got to go out to crwper, who opened up the first big wall (a 1200+ foot vertical chunk of granite) in the area Sunday -- disproving the theory, again, that Canadians disintegrate when the go past 3 seconds.
Duplicate post, sorry.
Limestone? Thanks!
Michael
>Limestone? Thanks!
Ah, seems I took it for granite.
Ouch.
Has it really come to that?
Michael
Sweet!! Nice job.
So where are the pics???:7 :7
BASE 570
Them pics are coming! Crwper, that was the coolest thing I ever did see! At least tied for that B McConkey that 587 did;->
You are my hero:)
Thanks! The jump was very intimidating, to say the least, but I managed to get myself off it using the old, "I'll put my gear on and then see how I feel about it."
Pics are coming soon. It takes a while to develop that digital film, you know. Even made sure we got a nice shot of the wall just for you!
Michael
As promised! Keep in mind I was shooting from 1 km away!
Sweeeet!
Sweet! Attachment #1 is a good shot of the wall. The vertical part is approximately 1200 feet high. The talus you see at the bottom of the face is about 100 feet long, and then it drops over a few cliff bands (maybe another couple hundred feet vertical). After that, there's about 2000 feet of high-angle talus leading to the valley floor, where it levels out a bit. The longer stretch of talus is a fine landing area. Where it levels out I'm sure it would be a wonderful landing area. On this jump, I opened high enough (about half-way down the wall) to land roughly where the first shot was taken -- a meadow in the col between this wall and another.
The rock drop was about 10.5 seconds. Taking account of the time it takes for sound to travel back up the wall, that's about 9 seconds to impact (on the talus directly below the face). I'm thinking that with good tracking skills, we can easily make use of the long stretch of talus below to build on the freefall time. Does that sound feasible?
The opening in Attachment #3 was after a 5-second delay. I had a 90 right on opening due mainly to poor body position (I was overly aggressive throwing the pilot chute, and can clearly recall that causing a bit of a turn and dipped shoulder). However, the photo also seems to show some closed endcells on the right. The canopy is a v-tec Fox 245. The photo seems to have been taken before the cells had really pressurized -- by the time I looked up at the canopy, all seemed well. Is it possible the closed endcells contributed to the off-heading, and is this normal for a 5-second slider-up (large-hole mesh) deployment?
Thanks, Dave!
Michael
Hi Michael,Congradulations on the new site.Awesome!!I expect to hear from Jason as you guys develope the site further.I just opened a new "A" back hear in the east.360' very nice!
later,
Trent:)
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