The bus to 15,000ft

Just uploaded a few shots from Hibaldstow. Here’s the bus to 15,000 ft:

Exit Steve

In the end, I made eleven jumps this weekend, seven yesterday and all good fun. Here I asked a tandem cameraman to shoot a solo exit:

Exit Steve
Originally uploaded by stevenjbaker

I find I must make way too much effort to match my fall rate to the average skydiver, particularly in big formations (which fall slower), so here goes the diet…

UKS Boogie – Hibaldstow

So here we are, Mark and I, at Hibaldstow for this year’s UK Skydiver Boogie. Via Target Skysports:

Welcome to Target Skysports, the home of skydiving in the UK. We offer sky diving courses from up to 15,000ft at our dropzone in Lincolnshire.

I arrived yesterday in time to jump solo from 15,000 feet, taking a full minute of freefall before pulling at 4000 feet to familiarize myself with the DZ.

Today, it is too windy…