It was the staring down over 50 feet of vertical rock, knowing that only some jerks were holding on to it.
On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 10:34 PM, Eric Roberts <ow...@threeravensconsulting.com> wrote: > > 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:328217 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
