{"id":357,"date":"2009-12-31T12:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-12-31T20:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/?p=357"},"modified":"2013-09-08T14:05:29","modified_gmt":"2013-09-08T21:05:29","slug":"2009-catch-up-part-3-of-5-bungee-jumping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/?p=357","title":{"rendered":"2009 Catch-up Part 3 (of 5): Bungee Jumping"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>2010 starts tomorrow and I haven&#8217;t finished posting about 2009. The last few months have been a blur of activity and compositing so Live Journal updates have suffered. Fear not, my three readers, a flurry of updates has arrived!<\/i><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chinnymedia.com\/images\/2009\/bungee1205\/bungeejump001.jpg?w=625\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Karl of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.extremethings.com\">Extreme Things<\/a> has been trying to get us all to jump off a bridge for months now. He had arranged a bungee jumping event on two separate occasions that were each canceled because of circumstances beyond any of our control such as a huge wildfire in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Angeles_National_Forest\">Angeles National Forest<\/a>. Thankfully, the third attempt was successful  and a few of us were able to bungee jump off the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bridge_to_Nowhere_(San_Gabriel_Mountains)\">Bridge to Nowhere<\/a>. I&#8217;ve made this hike a few times prior and I always enjoy it. It includes my favorite aspects of hiking: stream crossing and rock scrambling. This time, although, I was able to jump off the bridge with the help of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bungeeamerica.com\/\">Bungee America<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I flew three times and each experience was different (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bungeeamerica.com\/jump-styles.html\">See a list of jump styles here<\/a>). First, I tried the <b>front swan dive<\/b>. It was fun, but not especially frightening or jarring. The <b>backward plunge<\/b>, on the other hand was quite exciting. Not being able to see where you are falling or anticipate when you will stop is quite a rush. Lastly, I tried the <b>Elevator Drop<\/b>. I have never felt so aware of acceleration before. Streamlining your body and leaping straight down is a frightening, but fun experience. Karl said my eyes were huge.<\/p>\n<p>At the moment I have no photos of my own jump, but Karl and Trails promise to send me pictures and video in the future.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chinnymedia.com\/images\/2009\/bungee1205\/bungeejump002.jpg?w=625\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--more 2 More Photos--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chinnymedia.com\/images\/2009\/bungee1205\/bungeejump003.jpg?w=625\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chinnymedia.com\/images\/2009\/bungee1205\/bungeejump004.jpg?w=625\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2010 starts tomorrow and I haven&#8217;t finished posting about 2009. The last few months have been a blur of activity and compositing so Live Journal updates have suffered. Fear not, my three readers, a flurry of updates has arrived! Karl of Extreme Things has been trying to get us all to jump off a bridge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[244],"tags":[74,84,164,139,71,52,28],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fourchinnigan.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}