Your First Time
In issue #20, Doc shared some tips he wished he’d known before going to his first boogie. (By the way, you do know that’s beer, right Doc?) What are your first boogie tips and stories?
photo by kilgarron
BOOGIE FEVER!
We have it. Bad. With the sun staying up a little bit longer every day, the temperatures climbing and the unnatural curse of daylight savings time about to come to an end, we can feel the gypsy blood in our veins starting to boil. It’s time to broaden horizons by visiting new dropzones, meet up with old friends and maybe make some new ones. It’s time for fun jumps, geting a little silly, drink cheap beer and swap stories around the bonfire.
With how much skydivers like to travel, it’s no accident that we devote a couple of pages in the magazine every month exclusively to featuring events and places to jump. But we need help from the Blue Skies Mag community here, to pick the right ones to attend. Which ones can we not miss out on? Which ones suck? Are there any new ones that we should know about?
How about records, fundraisers, community support or any of that fun stuff?
Well, we want it all. Those of you involved in planning for your respective DZ’s, make sure to sign us up for your newsletter and list your events (for free) in the Events section of our website. If you don’t have a newsletter, fine – just drop us a line – but make sure you give us at least 8 weeks notice if at all possible.
For those of you just burning to write an article about your boogie experience –
keep in mind that we accept those, as long as you can find a unique, fun and interesting way of presenting it. If you have an cool idea, by all means read this and then chat with the editor!
Happy Boogie Season!
Chicks Rock!
The two Blue Skies Mag chicks are here at Skydive Elsinore for Chicks Rock Boogie. Blue Skies Mag dude is at home eagerly awaiting photos 
Lost Prairie: Summer Camp 2010
By the awesome K-Dub:
Congratulations, TreeGirl!
We’d like to welcome our newest subscriber, Crystal Prom, better known as “That Girl Who Landed In the Tree at CarolinaFest 2010,” or “TreeGirl” for short.
Where nicknames are born. Yes, there is a girl dangling under that canopy. Photo by Trunk/Hypoxic.
TreeGirl handled a scary situation like a pro, going up for a second jump later that day. For that kind of spunk, bravery and badassedness, we had to give her a complimentary subscription to Blue Skies Mag. She also got 50% off a Mirage rig from a slightly inebriated Ward Hessig (pictures on the far left) later that night. (Helpful boogie tip: if you want any Mirage shwag, give Ward liquor.)
Congrats, TreeGirl, now you’re really a skydiver!
Load up the car, we are hitting the road!
Well, not *right* now, because we still have to get some honest work done behind the desk, but come Thursday June 3rd, you can expect to find Blue Skies Magazine setting up a temporary office in a tent on Vendor Row at Skydive Carolina.
We are looking forward to spending the weekend in the beautiful countryside of Chester, SC attending Carolinafest. Which means you can find us right there to either get yourself a subscription, get information in person as to how to submit photos or articles or any other information you might want to get about Blue Skies Magazine – as we come up on our first anniversary in July.
We hope to see a lot of old friends and meet some new ones – so those of you that are coming, please do stop by the tent and say hi! Rumor has it that SkyGod himself might attend, so make sure to secure your women!
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