I started to skydive as soon as I got to Arizona. I just remember that echo in my head from my mother, “Join clubs, meet people.” And here on a street post was a sign for “the nau Skydiving Club is starting up and looking for members.” (laughs)…
Thinking back, it was just mostly.… It hadn't evolved to the sport that it is today—back then we were just jumping out of an airplane. We heard that you could jump out and touch each other. That was our goal in life as skydivers, to jump out in the sky and just… I think Bob Hallett and I made over a hundred skydives just trying to touch each other in the air as we went past each other. I remember my log book entry has, “We were two feet apart!” (laughs) And yeah, people were doing it, but… Like in the old days, remember, there were no books on how to ski, there were no books on how to rock climb, there were no books on how to run a boat through the canyon. Remember when you just had to just go do it?

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