{"id":154122,"date":"2019-11-25T11:05:26","date_gmt":"2019-11-25T18:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=154122"},"modified":"2019-11-25T11:05:26","modified_gmt":"2019-11-25T18:05:26","slug":"the-secret-base-jumpers-of-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=154122","title":{"rendered":"The secret BASE jumpers of California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"deck\"><em>Can this deadly sport be done safely and legally in California? One jumper believes it can.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Daniel Ristow toed a rugged precipice high above a narrow gully near the summit of Mount Morrison and spit into the thin mountain air. The wind carried his projectile left to right, indicating a slight quartering tail wind \u2014 maybe 5 to 8 mph. Not ideal, Ristow thought.<\/p>\n<p>It was nearly noon on a cool blue October morning \u2014 one of the last quality days of the season for a wingsuit BASE jump from the 12,241-foot peak. The drop-off from Ristow\u2019s perch measured about 600 feet to the gully floor, but he\u2019d have to clear\u00a0\u00a0 &#8230;\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/living\/article\/The-secret-BASE-jumpers-of-California-14839305.php?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=briefing&amp;utm_campaign=sfc_baybriefing_am\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Stoked News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can this deadly sport be done safely and legally in California? One jumper believes it can. Daniel Ristow toed a rugged precipice high above a narrow gully near the summit of Mount Morrison and spit into the thin mountain air. The wind carried his projectile left to right, indicating a slight quartering tail wind \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-154122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-skydiving-base-jumping-hang-gliding-paragliding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=154122"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":154123,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154122\/revisions\/154123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=154122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=154122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=154122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}