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MitchPee
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Hey guys, so I am trying to get an event/legalization of BASE jumping in Zion National Park. I would greatly appreciate even just a like on facebook. I know some of you have been stoked to watch videos involving BASE and it would be a huge help for me and the community to ally with NS and the power of numbers thanks :)

May 4 2013 1:26AM
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p-fo
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Does Zion even have any places with enough exposure to do that? I remember the canyons being pretty gradual overall. Would be so sick to wingsuit fly through the hoodoos though. I hope this gets passed so I can watch GoPro videos of people doing that shit.
May 4 2013 1:29AM
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MitchPee
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Yes there is quite a few wingsuit potential spots. Hell I'll even ski base there with some sort of NS logo if you guys can help me get this passed.

Places like Angels Landing, Kinesava, and Moonlight Buttress are good starting points.


May 4 2013 1:32AM
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HWW
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done & good luck!
May 4 2013 3:09AM
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MitchPee
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Thanks, I'll need it!
May 5 2013 4:44PM
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johnnyBuz
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Liked the page. Good luck. I hope to get into BASE in the next 5+ years or so. I just started my skydiving career last summer so I still have a lot to learn. I probably want to get to 250-300 skydives before I take a BASE jump course.
May 5 2013 4:50PM
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Barefootin_Fiend
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liked. good luck. would love to see ya throw up some vids if/when this gets passed.
May 5 2013 5:45PM
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MitchPee
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Thanks for that! Let's see if the power of NS can outweigh the NPS!

Here's a video if this thread wasn't exciting enough.



May 7 2013 10:29PM
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iFlip
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While this would be cool, it has somewhere between a 0.000 and a 0.001 percent chance of actually passing. The national parks are very, very against this type of thing. Yosemite, with El Capitan and Half Dome, is the best place in the US to BASE, bar none. It is extremely illegal, but people do so anyway. If caught, the consequences are very harsh. The NPS will not budge on its anti-base stance.
May 7 2013 10:38PM
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MitchPee
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Thanks for your unyielding optimism. Hence why this thread has nothing to do with Yosemite.
May 7 2013 10:58PM
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johnnyBuz
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I don't understand how the parks can ban it and make it illegal - not even the parks but all over the US. If smoking cigarettes is legal, so should be BASE jumping so long as its not putting other people in danger or disrupting traffic or things like that.
May 8 2013 6:04PM
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