Coolidge AZ, 1977-78

The girl and guy on the right side of the picture are Scott Haslam and Jane Marchant. Husband and wife..killed in an airplane crash in August 1992. 

'go in here'  hehe

I think it was '80, I went to the infamous Ghoulidge annual Christmas - New Year's boogie. Ended up doing my first demo. They were doing a jump into a nearby country club / golf course for their 'All America Days', or some such. They had someone with a red canopy, and someone with a white one. Mine just happened to be blue. Didn't have a whole lot of jumps at the time (started in '79), so they asked me how my accuracy was. 'Pretty good, I think', I told them, so they said they'd watch me on my next jump. Had a malfunction, cut away to a round reserve. By the time I landed and got back to the hangar, they had retrieved my canopy, straightened it out, had a rig for me to pack it into, and had a rigger arranged to pack my reserve. As soon as I was packed we climbed into a 182 and went to do the demo. Had a great time, they fed us a great lunch, and we flew and jumped back into the dz, where my rig was waiting for me, reserve repacked.

What a place, what an era. And yes, of course I bought the beer...

Photo from Danny Peters. 

From Danny Peters collection. 

Do you (or anyone else) remember "Better a transient than me..."?

Had so much fun going to multiple ghoulidge boogies.

DC4 - landing out and having to cross 2X drainage channels

co-ed showers

fun jumps

good friends

thanks for the memories

Halloween Boogie, 1977.... seldom if ever matched.  Tom Piras, Zing, Ernie Butler, etc. in rare form.

I was there.

Yes, indeed!

More from the Danny Peters Collection.  Also on Farcebook in Old School Skydiving.

Zing!

I drove cross country in 82, Ohio to So Cal.

Stopped in Coolidge, tired, hungry, dirty.

Zing fed me, gave me beer, let me use the shower.

Good man.

Craig