Base History - First person you knew who went in

Spiderbaby

Re: [Mikki_ZH] Base History - First person you knew who went in

Bill Frogge, #74. Watched him pound into the talus with nothing out at Echo Cliff in Moab.

From climbing I knew Xaver Bongard, Rob Slater and others long before I started BASE jumping. But Bill was the 1st I remember as a BASE jumper myself..

"Supremely lucky people rarely amend their ways. They always imagine they are in the right when fortune upholds their recklessness."
~La Rochefoucauld

skypuppy

Re: [tempoe] Base History - First person you knew who went in

tempoe wrote: Rick Stanley, #12, 1986, day after bridge day. Still miss him and his brother Joe, RIP boys
I was shocked when I got the call about Carl Boenish, although I didn't really know him.

But I remember driving home one day and hearing that a Canadian jumper from Kitchener had drowned in the New River after jumping from the bridge, and I had to pull over for a minute and wonder who it was. Once I got home I called the dz and found out it was Rick. His brother Joe was the one I had turned to for advice a couple of years earlier when I was going to start base-jumping. He convinced me to wait for bridge day rather than just going out and starting to jump off stuff on my own...

in 2010 I knew # 157 from way back when, but not well. We'd actually met up a few times a bridge day and realized we'd known each other earlier...

there was a time, around 2002, when I was really sort of scared to turn on the computer, so many people were going in that I'd been reading about on boards or messaging myself.

Base719

Re: [Mikki_ZH] Base History - First person you knew who went in

Tom was with me when I made my near fatal jump at Moab.... Jim In reply to:

Hajo

Re: [Mikki_ZH] Base History - First person you knew who went in

First one I knew was Schlefy (#56).

Then Stephan (#96), Edi (#107), Ueli (#140), Bernd (#142), Mirko (#165), Nico (#176), Herve (#186), Steffen (#210) and Uli (#278).

First base-related funeral I have been: Edi.

The world would be a brighter place if that all didn´t happen ...

With sufficient thrust, pigs just fly fine ...

freeflysoul

Re: [Mikki_ZH] Base History - First person you knew who went in

Darcy #92

3,2,1,C-YA!!!
V.
BASE #1075 / BMI #I-002 / PFI #042 / EGI #104

Yorick

Re: [Mikki_ZH] Base History - First person you knew who went in

'knew' as in 'spoken to':

BFL #260

and this month:
#291 #303 and #305

Mitchpee

Re: [Yorick] Base History - First person you knew who went in

Here's a crazy one I found when I was watching an old video. I had to edit the photo to fit, so the quality sucks but there's Fernando Motta #204 (this was his last jump alive), Amber Bellows #204 and her husband Clayton Butler (died speedflying), and Graham Hunt #255.

If that doesn't show the reality of this topic I am not sure what does.

GaryP

Re: [Dunny] Base History - First person you knew who went in

# 27 Joe Shaw

Fukn loved Joe!!

Miss you mate !

G.

drunk

Re: [Mitchpee] Base History - First person you knew who went in

Here's another crazy one.

#262 Damian
#244 Gabriel
#258 Kedley
#269 Dennis

First person I knew who went in was #165 Mirko Schmidt .
First close one was #188 Andre Sementile and many more close friends after him.

jerry81

Re: [drunk] Base History - First person you knew who went in

Here's what's crazy to me: I only jumped for about 4 years. Did my last one in 2011, and I wasn't very active at all (which was one of the reasons I felt I better stick to planes). During my time, I probably shared an exit point with about 100 people. Definitely didn't speak to all of them.

But 6 of those I did speak to, hung out or was friends with, well...

#146 - Geo
#177 - Valentina
#193 - Wioletta
#208 - Paddy
#260 - Jhonny
...and Ludo.

1 in 16. That's my personal experience of the odds.

base44

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grimmie

Re: [base44] Base History - First person you knew who went in

#34-Theresa Tran. All the guys at Perris loved her. She was a great kid.

#37-Magilla Gorilla Christman. I always loved jumping with him.

#39-Gary Dawson. He filmed our 4 way team a few times and was always around the DZ having fun.

#63-Lee "Skypunk" Werling. He worked for me at the Bent Prop in Eloy for a couple of weeks.

#71-Rob Tompkins. All the pretty ladies loved him.

#84-Duane Thomas. I loved him like a brother. We jumped Angel Falls together. What a character.

#140-Ueli Gegenschatz. I met him at the exit in Brento. He was the first dude I ever saw wing suit off a cliff. He was a great guy. He snail mailed me a picture of myself and Mark Kirkby at exit on a two way. Classy.

#219-Jared Garnet. He jumped at my DZ a week before he went in. He was on the infamous WS load that flew from the Oceanside DZ to Camp Pendleton. He hid. Others got arrested.

#220-Max Bond. He jumped at my DZ and always begged for a TI slot.

#224-Dr. Dave. Fun guy. Knew him for a long time. Great doctor.

#232-Adam Rubin. He jumped at my DZ. Such a fun kid, always smiling.

#249-Josh Sheppard. What a cool guy.

#253-Jim Hickey. I made skydives with him a lot when he first started. He was at my DZ a couple of weeks before he flamed in.

#260-Jhonathan Florez. What a human being.

#262-Damian Hrdlicka. He was like my brother from another mother. We were friends for years. He phoned me the night before he left for Europe. I told him if he got hurt on this trip I would kill him.

#263-Avi Schwartzberg. Such a nice kid. He always jumped at my DZ.

#264-Ian Flanders. Always at my DZ. Always up to something he needed my help with. Handsome. My wife loved him. His death sealed my base jumping fate with my wife and I am now retired.

#265-Fernando Goncalves. What a character. Always smiling.

#283-Kristin Czyz. I have jumped with her dad for 25 years. I think I have known her since she was 16 or 17. What a human being. The best.

#286-Chris Labounty. He jumped at my DZ. Always smiling.

#288-Jewbag. What can I say. What a character. I was proud of him for getting on the fire department.

I was also friends with Dwain Weston. We did a sit fly jump at Perris the week before he went to Colorado. Eli Thomson was a friend. Jonathan Tagle. Rami too.

Be safeish you guys...

kleggo

Re: [Mikki_ZH] Base History - First person you knew who went in

Mikki_ZH wrote: Hello, who was the first person you knew who went in,,,?
For me, Tom Manship, BFL 94
Met him in Twinfalls when he used to be finished for the day around 11:00 am after 4 jumps to pack his rigs and start to do stuff people do when they are retired :-)
Jimmy Tyler
then
Carl B
then
Mitch Reno
then
Dick Pedley
then
Too many more

Sigh

kleggo

Re: [pBASEtobe] Base History - First person you knew who went in

pBASEtobe wrote: Theresa Tran, BFL #34. She taught me how to pro pack when I started skydiving. I had a crush on her.
smart man
she was full-o-life and a beauty.

kleggo

Re: [base44] Base History - First person you knew who went in

base44 wrote: Mikki_ZH wrote: Hello, who was the first person you knew who went in,,,?
For me, Tom Manship, BFL 94
Met him in Twinfalls when he used to be finished for the day around 11:00 am after 4 jumps to pack his rigs and start to do stuff people do when they are retired :-)
T

23. I knew, skydived and base jumped with Dwain Weston (killed when he hit the Royal Gorge Bridge after jumping from a plane). I watched him hit the bridge and his right leg landed three feet in front of me. (The rest of him landed on a high ledge under an open canopy.)

That was VERY GRIM viddy.
Glad I did not see what you saw.

MikePelkey

Re: [avenfoto] Base History - First person you knew who went in

Brian Schubert was a very close friend and the only person I ever witnessed going in. He and I jumped the El Capitan together some 12 years before fixed object jumping had a name. He was the best man at my wedding nearly 50 years ago, and we named our son Brian after him about 13 years later. We didn't get along perfectly in his last days on this Earth, but I will never get over losing him.

Happiness is finding the courage to do something no one's ever done.

RickHarrison

Re: [epibase] Aware 100 through 303+

It is a sad thread, but it's part of what makes jumping special. By 1990 my brother and I listed 40 names of folks we had jumped with and were friends with some who had died from violent accidents. Most jumping, skydiving and BASE, but a few motorcycles, iron worker fall, etc. but no natural causes. Since then the BFL has gone nuts and I don't really care to count any higher.

Rick Harrison

RickHarrison

Re: [base44] Base History - First person you knew who went in

Hey 44 forget that you know me would you just until I completely retire from BASE.
Thanks
Rick
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Rick Harrison

base570

Re: [Mikki_ZH] Base History - First person you knew who went in

First person I met was -43- Bob Neely

First fatality I was present for was -44- Thor Alex Kappfjell

First close friend was Eric Davis - committed suicide from a tower so technically he went in, he just didn't have a rig on. I miss that guy.

First fatality of a close friend that I was present for was -94- Tom Manship.

This thread makes me sad.

base704

Re: [base570] Base History - First person you knew who went in

base570 wrote:
First fatality of a close friend that I was present for was -94- Tom Manship.

This thread makes me sad.
It makes me sad too, Jason...
Sad indeed.

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