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Posted by Slylee on Jun-24-2002 04:13:

Daring Things You've Done/Cool Places You've Gone

as for me i am pretty fortunate that i have this real outdoorsy kind of dad. he has dragged me to the Grand Canyon a few times to hike it as well as to Mt.Fugi in Japan when i was living there during high school. he's also taken me camping in Yosemite National Park to go rock climbing when i was 14. let's see...i've been hangliding and parasailing as well over the beach in miami. my dad is still trying to get me to go sky diving. he has made like over 100 jumps and is certified, but i dunno bout that any more. i DID go up in the plane ride one time w/ him and his buddies and watched them jump it was crazy...that's all i can think of for now...

Posted by Nadi on Jun-24-2002 04:30:

Well Ive also been fortunate to hike the grand canyon, and climb yosemitie. Tho I was the one dragging my dad there Ive also went bungie jumping. No skydiving yet But as soon as my parents let me Im going to do it. Ive also been to Mt. Reineir in oreon and hiked that. I dont really think any of its all that daring though...

Posted by Orbax on Jun-24-2002 04:55:

rock climb crazy stuff 5.13bish outdoors. advanced scuba diver going for master cert, done cave diving and stuff. Paraglider, trick snow boarder, hike, run, mountain bike, street bike, street races, dragging, surfing but highest is 8 foot at the face so far :\, uhm... road trippin across US and then the Alcan highway to alaska 3000 mile highway with hundreds of miles between gas stations and a lot of it isnt paved still, thats about all I can think of. This summer im backpacking for 6 months across Western Europe. I like the outdoors

**edit** oh yeah and Ive logged a whole bunch of flying hours so far towards my pilots license.

and dont take this as bragging, I just think its cool stuff to do its something all my friends do too to some extent

Posted by tranceDJ on Jun-24-2002 04:56:

The Ocean (when there was a riptide)...I got pulled out into deep water and had to be rescued so thats why.

On a side note, this is my 1,000th post! w000t!

Posted by .montecarlo. on Jun-24-2002 07:03:

went diving/snorkeling in the great-barrier reef

climbed ayers rock

went sailing around the whitsunday islands

climbed , and visited some cool waterfalls

went swimming with the dolphins from "flipper" in the bahamas - sorry no more pics

white-water rafting in the fraser canyon

hiked up a volcano in hawaii

hiked black-tusk (near whistler)

went to alot of castles etc in scotland/england

i haven't gone bungy-jumping or sky-diving yet, but i'd really like to...

[NSM]

Posted by Slylee on Jun-24-2002 16:46:

that's awesome do any of u guys have pics (besides insomniac)??? i also forgot to mention i flew a glider plane...that was awesome...u like get taxied up in the air by a small plane and then ur on ur own...i was with an instructor but i still got to handle it on my own. also have done lots of snorkling in the bahamas. my uncle lives there on a sailboat and we've gone out to this reef called the blue hole. i've seen a few sharks also while snorkling...usually just nurse sharks which are harmless but one time had about an 8 ft bull shark swim right under me! that was a rush....

orbax...CAVE DIVING??! are u serious? where?????

Posted by torontotrance on Jun-24-2002 17:50:

scariest thing i ever did.....meeting redeye_ and richierich....or maybe meeting swamper....that was scary also. Hmmmmmm all joking aside, i did meet sander kleinenberg and john digweed tho. I'm cdn..we don't do many crazy things.

Posted by Vivid Boy on Jun-24-2002 21:51:

well i dont really leave toronto that much so the craziest thing ive done was had to pick up drugs from this apartment building that was GHETTO! like these buildings are ghetto...Scarlett wood courts ahh the refuge for every jamaican without a visa...so well anyways me and my buddy had to pick something up from there we knew if we walked in there wearing our normal shit we would most likely be beat down and mugged for all of our gear...so we went into the courts wearing nuthing but our boxers and an undershirt and got the fuck out of there...and thats the coolest thing ive ever done i dont even think its that cool

Posted by torontotrance on Jun-24-2002 21:53:

Or how about vividboy cracked out on e and shirtless at the koolhaus when tiesto came in october. That was scary

Posted by Orbax on Jun-24-2002 22:00:

two scary moments that ive posted before but that was a time ago...scuba diving down to 145 feet and my friend runs out of air because hes a noob, I thought he was gonna die, and honest to God he should have, he ran out at 80 feet and used the last of his air to fill his BC and shot to the surface, that kid shoulda fuckin died from about 5 things.

paragliding: my instructor got all excited about the thermals and didnt prep the chute, and then hopped off the mountain. The wing then got tangled and turned into a basketball sized wad of plastic. We dropped like 80 feet and fell into trees. I thought my legs were gonna break, but the 50 foot tree snapped in half instead of my legs. Then we fell out of the tree. I landed on my instructor, it was a soft landing muahahahaa.

rock climbing always has scary shit, but its the "you woulda had to have been me" kind of things. snowboarding almost snapped my neck, and for a while I couldnt move... hmm ill think of more

Posted by j_spot on Jun-24-2002 22:51:

well..Ive been swiming w/ dolphins in a volcano crater
gone clif jumping, tried to dive, but couldnt make myself do it...
riding horses is 2nd nature, ive jumped on a wild mountain goat(this is a long story)
gone scree skiing(which is incredibly stupid), mountain climbing, hiking etc.

Im blessed to live in a wilderness playground. Im like 1 hour away from the rocky mountains, which is where Ive doen most of this...
and sadly I only have 1 pic of all of these..its me on the cliff..taken from the boat we left floating in the lake.
but I cant post pics..only link

http://groups.msn.com/thajspotexper...oto&PhotoID=143

that little white spec is me, about to jump, then I climb back up, and jump again, this time from the tree to my right(the real big one)

and for those of you who dont know, scree skiing, its done on a scree slope, which is pretty much the bottom of a cliff where all the little ish rocks have fallen..there are boulders and stuff, but mostly hand sized rocks..pretty much it involves running down the hill and hopping, so that when your feet hit, its like you are skiing, very dangerous, very stupid and easy to fall and kill/maim/hurt yourself.

Posted by pupil on Jun-25-2002 02:37:

Well, I have to say that I didn't really feel like I had done a whole lot of traveling until my last semester in school. I studied in londong and it was the best time of my life. As far as clubbing goes...berlin and london were tops. The scenery all across europe was absolutely amazing and you meet so many wonderful people along the way. You should try skydiving as well. I went in switzerland over the alps and it wasn't as scary as one would think. It actually feels quite natural once you let go of the thought of falling. It felt more like floating.

Posted by STi_WRX02 on Jun-26-2002 03:33:

Went heli-skiing in BC and Alaska
Bungie Jumping
Climbed @ Yosimite National Park and Red River Gorge
Raced @ Laguna Seca Raceway (Not offical but i got to drive on it)

One time i was climbing with my friend and i was 'leading'(for those who aren't climbers its when u have the rope on the bottom and you climb up while setting up anchors as you go which = bigger falls=D ) the route. It was a 5.11b, I was having a hard time with this part of the route and i tried to grab the next hold but i lost it and I fell about 50 ft. when the rope caught me. My heart dropped to my ass while my flew to my head (figure of speech of course). In the end I completed the route.

Heli-Skiing....damn was that fun! Spent the entire day hitching rides from a civiilian version of the super huey to mountians that haven't been touched. Skied powder runs all day and its prolly the most beautiful and exciting trip I've ever been on.