Lowell,<br><br>Regarding ski BASE jumping, a good friend of mine I grew up skiing with is a professional skydiver, amateur BASE jumper (seeing its illegal most places), and phenominal skier. It was only a matter of time before he starting mixing them - rather than sky skiing, he chose ski BASE.<br><br>I'm not sure what YEARBOOK has in it, but he has some footage from both the ground and a headcam that is utter insanity. It starts with him hucking off a rise with considerable speed, needing to clear 70 feet to reach a 400-foot drop. After clearing the 70-foot span and plumetting over the 400-foot drop, he started to rotate backward in an unfortunate way as he was reaching for his chute to deploy. As he said once he landed, "I almost just died."<br><br>So to answer your question, from what I've pulled out of him, this is a little more extreme if you will and a quite a bit more dangerous than your typical jump - for the reasons you mentioned, stemming from the substantially greater horizontal movement. <br><br>p.s. He's not distributing the video on that one, but plans to do some other jumps in Utah this winter. I'll pass along the video if he makes it available.
