No Skydiving in Hamilton for an AFF Student

I see why there are so few skydivers. You almost have to take a loan out just to get under 10 jumps, you spend your remaining time and money getting to and from the dropzone. Getting through the AFF course is damn ridiculous.

This week was a dry skydiving week for me. I was going to make a jump on Tuesday, but weather got in the way once again. I talked with the guys at Lost Prairie throughout the week about the next possible time to make a jump. They were heading down to the Hamilton Boogie and thought they could round me up some instructors.

On Friday night I waited for a phone call from Fred that would be a yes or no for making a trip down. I got a call at 9:30 letting me know everything was good to go. The next morning I drove down to Hamilton and started waiting.

I was there at about 11:00 and didn’t do my dive flow until about 3:00. As the day wound on it became increasingly windy and at about 6:00 we pulled the plug on my AFF jump.

That night a storm rolled in and the next morning there were low clouds as far as you could see. I left for the 3 hour drive back. I wouldn’t say I have ever been a patient person, but even though I drove 300 miles for almost nothing I was strangely fine with it. I have really started to accept things that I can’t control, and they don’t bother me like they have.

The forecast for the next week looks great though so it is possible that there could be some more jumps (finish AFF?) over the course of the next couple of weeks.