Update to "The Jump" Blog

Quick photo update to a bungee jump I did two years ago at the Grand Canyon. I posted on this blog about the jump with photos, videos, a film and an amazing letter from Alyse. Alyse was visiting the Navajo Bridge, watching us doing daring feats of leaping off a perfectly good bridge and she would plead with her folks to join the crazies who were testing gravity.

She would make an incredible leap and shared with me on the one year anniversary as to a story she wrote on the jump (she crushed it with an A!) and that it was a life-changing event.

It was a life moving event for me, as well. It would be my first bungee jump in ten years. It was epic and important for me to continue to take on challenges. As I recruited people for the novel event, I had strongly wanted to have another person with type 1 diabetes be in the mix, so I could create a broader story in my film. I had a type 1 who was going to join us but decided, at the last minute, not to go.

Bummer.

Alas, the first person we met when we arrive at the bridge was Bryce. A type 1 who did jump!

The other crazy angle to my jump, that my film does not cover very well, is the fact that on one of my bounces during my jump, my Sony Action Cam flew off. Yes, it flew off…….and I caught it. I was so surprised, but realized that I was likely to (still) lose the camera to the Colorado River as I was bouncing, spinning, upside down, and I, unfortunately, had to re-mount it on my head (and not drop it).

I had made another request to the two photographers at our jump for a specific photo. A photo of that interesting time with my disconnected camera, if they had happened to have captured the unique moment. It would not have been a photo they would have sent as the cream of the crop, glorious jump photos. The photo above was taken by Barry Glazier.