It took us a while to pull Tim C up after his first jump just because Dan gets loqua­cious and we had asked him about his tour in Afghanistan. Tim C just rolled with it, though. After com­ing up, he just tossed the hel­met and hel­met cam onto the bridge and set up for the sec­ond jump:

With­out the hel­met, or even a sweat­shirt, Tim C was def­i­nitely the free-​est of all jumpers. You’ll have to ask him if that was a good thing or not.

Now that I’ve got this checked off my list, I’m get­ting two ques­tions a lot.

The first is if I would go again. I def­i­nitely would. Dan men­tioned that this is his “fall­back” bridge since ho never has prob­lems jump­ing from here, but there are other bridges he likes more. He men­tioned that one of his favorites is Weitch­pec, and if we wanted, we should shoot him a mes­sage and he would let us know when he was going to that loca­tion. Appar­ently it’s a higher bridge in an even more beau­ti­ful area. We also asked him about dif­fer­ence bridge height makes, and he men­tioned that higher jumps obvi­ously give you more freefall time, but shorter jumps give you a stronger bounce at more Gs.

The other ques­tion is what I’m going to do next year. That is a tough one; it will be tough indeed to top the last two years. Andrew P sug­gested naked BASE jump­ing. (Tim C demands that if we do go BASE jump­ing, I need to do the Bat­man cos­tume.) There have also been sug­ges­tions of hang-​gliding. I dunno about that, from my ini­tial research, it looks both more expen­sive and less fun than bungee jump­ing. Per­haps I’ll just have to orga­nize a round of The Most Dan­ger­ous Game. (Either version.)

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