Jan 10, 200608:17 AMThe Life

Desert blogger jumps out of perfectly good airplanes

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Jan 10, 2006 - 08:17 AM
Maggie Downs is a skydiver who recently relocated to the desert. She has uploaded some amazing photos of her parachuting experiences, and she also blogs about them:

At 6,000 feet, about the same altitude at which the accident occurred, I turned and flew away from the group. I shoved my hands down by my sides, pointed my toes, and curled my shoulders forward until I shaped my body into a wing. I could feel my limbs cup the air, and I shot through the sky faster than I ever have before. Behind me, the group had kept my space open to recognize the missing man on the jump.

I deployed. After a few more seconds, I heard the snap of the other parachutes opening up in the sky around me.

It was a gorgeous jump. So stark and so simple and so beautiful. I wish the world could have seen it.

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