OT Bungee Jumping

[PDXFonz]

Anyone done this before? Either at this place in OR or somewhere else. I went skydiving a few years ago and had a blast but haven’t been bungee jumping.

It’s only $40 cheaper than a tandem skydive... I've thought about getting certified to skydive solo at some point in my life.

Thinking it might be cool to try this as well since it’s different than skydiving but same kind of adrenaline rush. I used to be fairly “F that” about bungee jumping but I’m warming up to the idea.


https://oregonbungee.com/faq/

 

[Lanny]

Anyone done this before? Either at this place in OR or somewhere else. I went skydiving a few years ago and had a blast but haven’t been bungee jumping.

It’s only $40 cheaper than a tandem skydive... I've thought about getting certified to skydive solo at some point in my life.

Thinking it might be cool to try this as well since it’s different than skydiving but same kind of adrenaline rush. I used to be fairly “F that” about bungee jumping but I’m warming up to the idea.


https://oregonbungee.com/faq/

I wouldn't bungee jump if you put a pistol to my head. I'd rather get my brains blown out than fall a thousand feet and then stretch the bungee cord until my nose almost touches the ground then to be jerked back up high in the air just to do it again and again and again until the oscillations dampen out. No thank you.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

I owned a bungee jumping biz for one summer. It was a hell of a lot of fun.

What would you like to know.

 

[riverman]

I owned a bungee jumping biz for one summer. It was a hell of a lot of fun.

What would you like to know.

Great biz...you empty your customers pockets and shake them upside down like the laundry........to me it's too close to being bait on a fish hook

 

[Hoopguru]

Great biz...you empty your customers pockets and shake them upside down like the laundry........to me it's too close to being bait on a fish hook

lol.....

 

[Hoopguru]

I owned a bungee jumping biz for one summer. It was a hell of a lot of fun.

What would you like to know.

right or left leg?

 

[PDXFonz]

I wouldn't bungee jump if you put a pistol to my head. I'd rather get my brains blown out than fall a thousand feet and then stretch the bungee cord until my nose almost touches the ground then to be jerked back up high in the air just to do it again and again and again until the oscillations dampen out. No thank you.

What about skydiving? You were in the forces weren’t you Lanny? Have you jumped out of a plane before?

 

[PDXFonz]

I owned a bungee jumping biz for one summer. It was a hell of a lot of fun.

What would you like to know.

How many feet up was the jump?

Their website says 5-10 minute duration and 300 ft drop...

Do you think $129 is steep?

Did you actually jump yourself? Enjoy it?

 

[SlyPokerDog]

How many feet up was the jump?

The crane I had was 180-190 ft of stick, worked out to be about 160ft jump.

Their website says 5-10 minute duration and 300 ft drop...

It will probably be closer to 5 mins.

Do you think $129 is steep?

Sounds about right but you're going to want to do the 2nd jump for $49.

Did you actually jump yourself? Enjoy it?

I jumped 100s of times. Enjoyed them all except for 1 jump where I scared the shit out of myself when I was jumping for an Oregonian photographer. The crane had a man basket with plank the you would shuffle to the end and jump. We tied people by the ankles, looks like the place your jumping with uses a chest harness. The photographer was in the man basket with me, I jumped about 5 times but he wasn't getting what he wanted so the last time I climbed onto the roof of the man basket while he walked out to the end of the plank and strapped himself to one of the rails. I squatted down and leaped off backwards but when I squatted and jumped it really dipped the basket. Swung hard and I launched. It's hard to explain but instead of falling down and launched outward in a huge arc. I didn't really see the ground until right when I reached the end of the bungee. Not being able to see the ground, with as hard as I launched off the basket, it was freaky. But it was a great shot and I made the cover of the paper.


Chest harness: they'll tell you to jump off the platform but most will just kind of step off. Most people think it's like a rock tied on the end of a string and it's jarring when you get to the bottom. It's very smooth. You actually won't even feel yourself slowing because your mind if racing. You jump, see the ground coming closer really fast and then suddenly your flying back upwards. You'll do that about 3 -4 times, just not going up as high each time.

 

[SlyPokerDog]

What about skydiving? You were in the forces weren’t you Lanny? Have you jumped out of a plane before?

I skydived at Skydive Oregon. I took the ground school class and then the two jumps the same day. I've never done tandem. Told myself if I was going to do I wanted to do it on my own.

Where did you jump? It's loud as fuck when they open that door.

 

[Lanny]

What about skydiving? You were in the forces weren’t you Lanny? Have you jumped out of a plane before?

Yeah, I've jumped out of a C-130 upon landing. We had been shot at by antiaircraft on most of our trip from Cam Rhan Bay to Da Nang and I was glad to get there alive. I may have kissed the ground upon arrival, just can't recall. We also got shot at by 122 mm rockets about three to five nights a week, always at night. Some guys could hear then flying right overhead in our guard towers. I've spent the night in those goddamned towers but never heard the rockets.
Later, I was transferred to this tiny detachment ordered to take care of the antenna that provided about 2/3 of the radio traffic to the mainland USA. I was told that they never hit there because they expected to win the war and inherit the antenna and that's how it turned out. We had to pull our own patrols and eat in a Navy mess hall. God almighty, the Navy eats like kings while we had dog shit. That was the highlight of my vacation in the sunny South East but it only lasted a couple weeks before my father died in a fishing accident near Maupin on the Deschutes at Sherer's Falls. I got reassigned state side. This is where it happened except it was in the summer.