Category Archives: Featured

Proposal to Redistrict the USPA Western and Mountain Regions

For many years the USPA’s Western Region has included Arizona, southern Nevada, and southern California. This may date back to the 70s when California skydivers often came to Arizona to jump at Casa Grande and later, Coolidge. While Arizona jumpers sometimes visit southern California for competitions, large formation attempts, and boogies, for the most part [...]

State Record Awards arrive from USPA

Skydive Idaho receives recognition for setting 3 different state records for Canopy Formation, also know as CRW!

On the weekend of July 9-10 of 2011, Skydive Idaho and organizer Rich Williams hosted a fantastic boogie benefiting the Boise Rescue Mission. During that boogie some local jumpers as well as visiting skydivers from California, Texas, and Oregon, [...]

Michelle Barker Memorial Boogie – Hucktoberfest!

[ October 14, 2011 5:00 pm to October 16, 2011 8:00 pm. ]

Turbine Caravan for 12,500ft skydives all weekend long

Freefly Load Organizers – Dave Brown (waiting on confirmation), Bill Sullivan

R/W Load Organizers – Coming Soon!

Wingsuit Load Organizers – Zach Schroedel and Bill Sullivan

FLOCK YOU! Squirrelsuit Demos for Rent, Training, and Flocking!

Catered Food

Live Band for Saturday the 15th – The Retreads!

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Infinity Skydiving Rigs by VSE now 5-6 week lead time!

Infinity Containers are currently at a 5-6 week lead time!
What are the top features can you find in an Infinity container that you can’t find in other containers?

Secondary riser covers integrated into the reserve side flap.
Very secure main pin cover flap. You can put two fingers under the flap and lift the rig up by [...]

Contact Congress to Oppose User Fees for General Aviation

Among the discussions currently taking place in Washington, D.C. about reducing the deficit and finding new revenue streams is talk about imposing new user fees on general aviation. There has been similar talk in the past, but Congress squashed the idea. There’s not yet any formal proposal, but there are enough rumors from official sources [...]

2011 Leap of Faith Fundraiser & Boogie

[ July 8, 2011 to July 10, 2011. ] Are you a friend and supporter of the Boise Rescue Mission? Have you ever had the urge to jump out of a “perfectly good airplane?” Are you ready to take a “Leap of Faith?”
Skydive Idaho and the Boise Rescue Mission are coordinating a fund-raising effort and providing opportunities to give that perfect gift, have a [...]

Transformers 3

 
Check out the Transformer’s 3 featurette! Our very own DZO, Abbie Mashaal, was part of a team led by Master Rigger Pete Swan, providing Jt Holmes, Andy Farrington, Michael Swanson, Jon Devore, and Julian Boulle, precision rigging necessary for some truly amazing stunts to be performed.
 
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Urgent Call To Action!

Since late February, there have been five fatalities (and one critical injury) that were canopy-collision related. Every skydiver is asking the same questions: “How is this happening, and why?” It appears that skill level and proficiency are not indicators. One accident involved two jumpers with about 23 jumps each who were the only two jumpers [...]

Greetings and Introduction

Hello Boise Valley Skydivers & area jumpers!
There’s a lot of buzz going around and as always, “where there’s smoke there’s fire”. Yes its true, Skydive Idaho is now under new management! Our mission for 2011 is to have the best skydiving year Idaho has ever seen. We’ll be flying higher and [...]