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03-26-2009, 03:02 PM #1Registered User
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Shane McConkey
Uncomfirmed that his chute didn't open today? Anybody?
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03-26-2009, 03:04 PM #2
say no to base jumping, its bad
Last edited by Dhelihiker; 03-26-2009 at 05:22 PM.
Hello darkness my old friend
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03-26-2009, 03:05 PM #3
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03-26-2009, 03:07 PM #4
Heard this too...really hope this isn't true.
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03-26-2009, 03:10 PM #5
Please be bullshit
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03-26-2009, 03:11 PM #6
I'm afraid it's true.
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03-26-2009, 03:12 PM #7
Fuck that!
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03-26-2009, 03:13 PM #8
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03-26-2009, 03:13 PM #9
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03-26-2009, 03:14 PM #10
If this is true, that is seriously tragic and terrible. If it's not, worst rumor ever...
The Griz
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03-26-2009, 03:15 PM #11
Shitty, really shitty if this is true.
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03-26-2009, 03:17 PM #12
What, what, what...
++++++vibes++++++
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03-26-2009, 03:19 PM #13
HOLY SHIT. Please, anybody with a credible source confirm this? I live in Twin Falls, where it is about the only legal place to jump in the nation. Shane is out here A LOT in the summer......and this would -horrible- news.
Please, someone say it is a rumor.
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03-26-2009, 03:20 PM #14
Someone please confirm or deny this with an actual source.
"We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard, in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what. -George Santayana, The Philosophy of Travel
...it would probably bother me more if I wasn't quite so heavily sedated. -David St. Hubbins, This Is Spinal Tap
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03-26-2009, 03:21 PM #15
I'm calling bullshit until I hear something more credible
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03-26-2009, 03:22 PM #16
Please see thread labelled: FUCK
or don't
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03-26-2009, 03:23 PM #17Registered User
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Still can't confirm. Something's gotta pop up somewhere soon.
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03-26-2009, 03:43 PM #18Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood.
http://tim-kirchoff.pixels.com/
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03-26-2009, 03:51 PM #19
From this Base Jumping site
Incident with the Red Bull Team today in Italy
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I just heard, 2nd hand from reliable source.
Shane McConkey was involved in a Ski-BASE-Jump incident in the Italian Dolomite's today.
All I know, is that on the jump, one ski released, and one did not release. This put Shane into a spin that got out of control. The witness thinks there was a reserve chute toward the end of the jump, but not completely sure.
Hopefully will have more details later, but the truth is, this is a VERY, VERY Sad day!
Hell, I remember going on some of Shane very first base jumps EVER off old Greeny.
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Mick Knutson
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03-26-2009, 04:12 PM #20
This is absolutely horrible.
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03-26-2009, 04:36 PM #21
Here's the story: http://espn.go.com/action/freeskiing/blog?post=4018726
RIP.
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03-26-2009, 04:36 PM #22
From: http://espn.go.com/action/freeskiing/blog?post=4018726
Decorated big mountain skier and BASE jumper Shane McConkey was killed earlier today in a ski-BASE accident in the Italian Dolomites.
A member of the Red Bull Air Force and pioneer of the ski-BASE-ing phenomena, McConkey experienced problems in the air after launching off a cliff with the expectation of deploying his parachute canopy and then soaring down to the ground—as he had done successfully some 700 plus times before.
"He did a double backflip off the jump and he has these releasable bindings so they come off in the air and then he flies off in his wing suit," filmmaker Scott Gaffney, a longtime close friend of McConkey's, told ESPN Action Sports in an interview this afternoon via phone.
"But one ski did not come off. And when that happens the drag on the skis causes you to flip over, so the skis' over your head. So he was struggling with the one ski. Then he also got into a bad spin..."
Such a sad, sad day...Magic Mountain Freeride Team...bringing your grom's game to the next level.
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03-26-2009, 05:32 PM #23Registered User
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R.I.P.
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