I was begging my company commander to let me go back up and do it again hehehe...that was blast...
-----Original Message----- From: Larry C. Lyons [mailto:larrycly...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 4:14 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: Cool Video (Non-political) Darned near crapped my pants when I tried it. But I had to do it to complete the course. Worth it though. At the end of the course the powers that be had us give a mountaineering demo to the tourists near Banff Alberta. Being the only (very junior one at that) officer taking the course, they decided I had to be in most of the demos, including that one. On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 3:24 PM, Eric Roberts <ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: > > Yeah, that is how we went down, it is called Australian rappelling...one Hel > of a rush hehehe > > Eric > > On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 3:23 PM, Larry C. Lyons <larrycly...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> >> With each person rappelling off the helicopter it would go up about a >> foot or so. If you were among the last people going off the >> helicopter, you ended up having quite the jump. >> >> One of of our exercises in the Rockies we did some rappelling off >> cliffs. I don't remember how high they were but they were high enough. >> It was quite the blast. Then our instructor had us rappel down one >> small cliff (around 50 or so) face forward. that was challenging. >> >> On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Eric Roberts >> <ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: >> > >> > That's awesome...In my younger days I would have been looking for a way >> to >> > repel on that hehehe. IK remember my air assault training we did in the >> > army and that was a blast repelling out of the helicopter and off the >> 500ft >> > tower...I could just image 1768 ft...w000t! >> > >> > Eric the adrenaline junkie >> > >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: Ray Champagne [mailto:r...@raychampagne.com] >> > Sent: Wednesday, September 29, 2010 9:50 AM >> > To: cf-community >> > Subject: Re: Cool Video (Non-political) >> > >> > >> > Holy crap. I can't begin describe the anxiousness I felt for that guy. >> I >> > couldn't finish watching. >> > >> > On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 8:37 AM, Jerry Barnes <critic...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > >> >> >> >> And now for a break from the political, here is a cool video. >> >> >> >> >> >> http://iowntheworld.com/blog/?p=35847 >> >> >> >> >> >> J >> >> >> >> - >> >> >> >> "The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings >> and >> > * >> >> inefficiencies* to our health care system." - Barack Obama >> >> >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:328209 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
