Death Camp
The Snake River BASE Academy's Death Camp is the most comprehensive introduction to BASE available today. The course will focus on fundamental BASE skills, with an additional emphasis on the history and ethics of BASE, and the teamwork necessary to many BASE jumps. In addition to standard First Jump training, the course will cover appropriate brake settings, advanced packing techniques, object avoidance techniques, object evaluation, and landing skills. Time and jumper aptitude permitting, we will also cover unpacked jumps, particularly as used for emergency situations, and multi-way jumps.
Death camp is offered twice each year, finishing at Memorial Day (the last full week of May) and Labor Day (the first week of September). Death Camp is free, and admission is highly competitive. Typically, we receive approximately 30 applications for 5 places. Admission is offered based on evaluation of student applications, reference checks, student preparation and class composition.
Course is limited to a maximum of 5 students and 2 auditors. Auditors should be people who cannot jump during the course, or do not have sufficient experience to be accepted as students.
This course includes seven days of instruction and jumping. Course includes packing video, packing tools, course reader, log book and t-shirt.
