Finally a moment to thank everyone for making the 4th annual Turkey Boogie in Moab a great time. A special thanks to Hank Caylor for being there every time we needed him. A huge thanks to Spence for having a cool head and medical training during the extraction of Jim. Thanks to Harry Potter for performing magic tricks. Thanks to everyone who helped make this thing go, there are too many to name, but hopefully we thanked you in person.
THE NUMBERS:
Attendance: About 100 jumpers and 40 non-jumpers.
Jumps Made: We made about 1,000 BASE jumps during the week in the Moab area and flew about 7 loads into Mineral Bottom.
Transport: Everyone drove all over this place with big help from 2 Unimogs (military transport) at Mineral Bottom on Friday.
Weather: Virtually no wind the entire time, mostly sunny but freaking cold in the morning until we started hiking.
New sites: Not exactly sure, but probably 10 new sites opened with about 50 sites jumped in all. (This is a huge guess on my part).
Girls who could climb into a normal sized freezer compartment of a refrigerator: 1
Number of people needing a rescue in the dark on Thanksgiving night halfway through the party: 1
Number of people sober enough to actually go out and do it: 3
Number of apple pies actually made sweet love to: 1 (Don't ask)
Food: We cooked four 20 pound turkeys(big thanks to Nick Carapella and Karen from Basic Research for bringing 2 turkeys and a portable oil cooker all the way from California!) Everyone brought something to the dinner at the house/shop on Thursday night so there seemed to be plenty to eat and drink. Burgers and dogs at Mineral bottom for lunch.
Memorial Jumps: 1 for Bill Frogge (His parents Bill and Kaye came out to Mineral Bottom and we had a really nice circle of friends and some ash jumps.
Injuries: One
Money donated: $500 to BLM as a voluntary donation as a big thanks for allowing us to play on our land.
$0 to the National Parks for not allowing us to play on our land.
$800 from the Bill Frogge fund to purchase a back board and a super deluxe medical kit.
$300 from the Bill Frogge fund to Grand County Search and Rescue as a voluntary donation so that we're friends when we need em!
$40 each to Chris Johnson, Mario Richard and John Woodie for the unofficial and haphazard Turkey stomp comp.
So, overall, it seemed like everyone had a great time, some did their first cliffs, a huge congratulations to them!
Thanks to everyone who came from all over the country, the UK, Australia, and Canada!
Jimmy and Marta
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