MARION — No quantity of printed phrases may precisely describe the weeklong carnival of costumes, neon palm tree lights, bonfires, electrical one-wheels and airplane a great deal of skydivers you may see for those who go to the annual Misplaced Prairie Boogie in the summertime close to the tiny city of Marion in northwest Montana.
With a glance of awe, a first-time tandem jumper prepares to exit the airplane on the Misplaced Prairie Boogie.
All day for 9 straight days, you’ll be able to watch teams of adrenaline junkies plummeting to Earth from excessive above the camp.
The “swoop and chug” is a standard beer-drinking recreation performed on the Misplaced Prairie Boogie.
Skydivers ready to go up will typically sit in garden chairs and watch as their mates descend above them. The Drop Zone vibrates with exercise. The acquainted whipping sound of a cover (parachute) because it nears the grass is as fixed because the hum of the airplane engine.
Skydivers line as much as board Skydive Arizona’s Twin Otter plane on the runway at Meadow Peak Skydiving. Usually, Meadow Peak presents jumps from a Cessna 182, the most typical skydiving airplane, however the finish of the 12 months pageant brings in Twin Otters which permit for bigger teams.
A whole bunch of individuals are gathered for every week of jumps, partying, good meals, music, video games and storytelling. Some have jumped lots of, even hundreds of instances.
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Skydivers take part within the “swoop and chug,” a skydiving, beer-drinking recreation during which the diver lands and their companion races to chug a beer in report time.
This was the fifty fifth 12 months for the oldest skydiving pageant within the U.S., in response to Meadow Peak Skydiving proprietor Wayne “Wayndo” Cross. A number of hundred individuals confirmed up with tents and RVs this 12 months to take part within the enjoyable.
Britany Bess “pies” Phil “Bare Phil” Carlon after his one hundredth bounce on the Misplaced Prairie Boogie.
For the fiftieth anniversary, he mentioned 748 individuals got here to skydive.
A skydiver makes an attempt to hitch a formation of 11 skydivers above the drop zone at Misplaced Prairie Boogie. Jumpers fly relative to one another and take “grips” to make a formation.
“We had 8,400 skydives in eight days,” he mentioned. “We had an airplane touchdown and taking off each 5 to seven minutes.”
It is a sport that is addictive, but it surely’s not for the faint of coronary heart.
Onlookers watch as a load of skydivers approaches the drop zone on the Misplaced Prairie Boogie on August 10. Meadow Peak Skydiving in Marion hosts the boogie, a week-long skydiving pageant, annually, the place lots of collect dive from roughly 12,500 toes.
As skydiver Will Rowe of Hamilton places it, first-time jumpers can count on a variety of feelings.
Cody Thomas balances a frisbee atop a foam noodle throughout one in all Misplaced Prairie Boogie’s post-dive video games.
“You are gonna be fu—– scared,” he mentioned, sitting round a campfire. “You are leaping out of a fu—– airplane. I would be mendacity if I mentioned I wasn’t nervous, however you discover a degree of peace and settle for it.”
A skydiver swoops into the drop zone on the Misplaced Prairie Boogie.
Skydiving comes with a sure degree of hazard, however Rowe notes that so does driving a automobile.
“Issues can go incorrect, but it surely’s a shorter time period so you concentrate on it extra,” he says of skydiving in comparison with driving.
Pals pay respect to a late skydiver earlier than spreading his ashes within the sky.
The nervousness is available in waves in the course of the day of your first bounce, he notes.
Jumpers bump fists earlier than exiting the airplane.
“You are gonna put in your harness, and you may really feel very nervous,” he mentioned. “Then, you are hanging out and laughing and also you relax. Then the airplane exhibits up, and also you’re gonna have an ‘oh f—‘ second. Then you definately go up, and the doorways gonna open and also you’re gonna have one other one. Embrace that.”
Pictures: The fifty fifth annual Misplaced Prairie Boogie
Onlookers watch as a load of skydivers approaches the drop zone on the Misplaced Prairie Boogie on August 10. Meadow Peak Skydiving in Marion hosts the boogie, a week-long skydiving pageant, annually, the place lots of collect dive from roughly 12,500 toes.
With a glance of awe, a first-time tandem jumper prepares to exit the airplane on the Misplaced Prairie Boogie.
Skydivers line as much as board Skydive Arizona’s Twin Otter plane on the runway at Meadow Peak Skydiving. Usually, Meadow Peak presents jumps from a Cessna 182, the most typical skydiving airplane, however the finish of the 12 months pageant brings in Twin Otters which permit for bigger teams.
Skydivers take part within the “swoop and chug,” a skydiving, beer-drinking recreation during which the diver lands and their companion races to chug a beer in report time.
A skydiver makes an attempt to hitch a formation of 11 skydivers above the drop zone at Misplaced Prairie Boogie. Jumpers fly relative to one another and take “grips” to make a formation.
A skydiver swoops into the drop zone on the Misplaced Prairie Boogie.
Pals pay respect to a late skydiver earlier than spreading his ashes within the sky.
The “swoop and chug” is a standard beer-drinking recreation performed on the Misplaced Prairie Boogie.
Jumpers bump fists earlier than exiting the airplane.
Britany Bess “pies” Phil “Bare Phil” Carlon after his one hundredth bounce on the Misplaced Prairie Boogie.
Cody Thomas balances a frisbee atop a foam noodle throughout one in all Misplaced Prairie Boogie’s post-dive video games.
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