Quandary and Skydiving!

This past weekend was just splendid. We spent Friday night in Breckenridge, and boy was it a nice change from the 100 heat of Breckenridge! Bright and early Saturday morning we made for the summit of Quandary. My goal was to get to the top without stopping, just slow and steady. Glad to report that the mission was a success.

I played with both my GPS and Camera, the new geotagging that I am addicted to. I now go on exercise just so I can geek around with the GPS and photo results. This link shows the map of Quandary and the exact locations that I took the photos. No manual effort on my part, just a merge of GPS data with the photo.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/repcool/map?&fLat=39.3939&fLon=-106.0915&zl=4&map_type=hyb

Onto Sunday, got to the DZ right at noon and had 2 jumps polished off by 1300h! The weather moved in and shut us down for a few hours. I however got an interesting story out of that. I was on load 13 for a hop and pop. The winds were calm. I get out at 4000, once under canopy it starts to rain, almost out of nowhere. I quickly determine that the winds have picked up so I hold right over the peas flying straight down, funny feeling but nothing serious. My first landing was great, but I shouldn't of flared, that sent my right back up for another landing! The load came back down and I was the only one to jump, so I manifest on the next load and I am on load 13 again! I got to jump the same load twice, once as a hop n pop and once to altitude. Amusing, to me.