HALO Jump

Last weekend I went down to SkyDance Skydiving in Davis, CA to do my first High Altitude Low Opening (HALO) skydive.  I participated in the jump as a prep for the high altitude jump at Everest.  There were 4 of us doing the jump.  Everyone was super nice and it was a really fun weekend. 

My friend Jesus came with me for support and to take pictures which was awesome.  We arrived at the DZ by noon on Friday, went through the equipment and did two practice jumps from 12,000 ft (standard exit altitude for a normal skydive). 

The 30,000 ft jump was schedule for early Saturday morning. We arrived at the DZ at 6 am (EARLY) Saturday to get geared up and pre-breathe 100% oxygen for 45 minutes prior to take off.  We continued breathing 100% oxygen as we flew to altitude which took another 45 minutes.  When we reached exit altitude we switched to our personal oxygen systems (bail out bottle) for  the actual jump.  We estimated our freefall time was just over 2 minutes (as compared to about 60 seconds in a normal skydive). 

      

Because of the multiple wildfires in Northern California we couldn't see all the way to the CA/OR border or the coast but it was still an amazing jump. 

 

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