Bungee Jumping

[Der Der Dongt]

Hey! This is my first photo TR here.

Two of my friends and I went to Austria to do a Bungee Jump off the Europa Brücke (630 ft). The original plan was to jump the Schlegeissperre dam but they were supposed to get some snow up there on that particular weekend.

It was the second jump for one of my buddies and me, we've done the same bridge last year as well.

 

 

We started off our day with some Butterfly credit whoring at Zahmer Kaiser Erlebniszentrum.

 

We arrived at the bridge 2 hours earlier than we needed to so that we could check out the area underneath it and get some photos and video footage

That's me, still smiling

 

Than it was time to head up and sign in our group of three

 

after we got our harnesses it was time to walk on out to the halfwaypoint where you climb down to the maintenance platform

 

The ladder you take down there is shaky and a awesome thrill experience for itself

 

I was next in line after waiting about half an hour. could have been more or less, I rally had other things going on in my head

 

You can really feel how the heavy bungee cord is pulling on your feet!

 

the crew counts down "5 4 3 2 1 bungee" and before you know it you are over the edge!

 

rebound

 

after about 3 minutes of hanging upside down in mid air you have to attach yourself to a cable to get pulled back up

 

almost there

 

my two friends jumped as well

 

after it was all over we really earned our "fat ladies"

 

 

Bungee Jumping really is an awesome experience and hard to describe. You have to do it yourself to know what it's like.

If you get a chance, take it, it's so worth it!

 

For those of you who are going on the oktoberfest trip, it's only about 1 hour and 40 minutes away from munich.

(only open on weekends)

This is their website: http://www.rupert-hirner.at/content.html

 

I would like to finish this TR with our 2010 Bungee Jumping Video!

 

 

Oh yes and before you comment on the video

I admit it, we sort of are CP fanboys

[Joe Cool]

Jealous!! That is amazing man. Bungee jumping and skydiving are the two things in life I want to do so bad.

[Sir Clinksalot]

That's totally awesome. I thought the 150 foot one I did was crazy, but that's nothing compared to this.

[disneyfan1313]

Awesome PTR! I don't think I would be able to Bungee off of something that high unless it was for something like "The Amazing Race". Just out of curiosity - how much does it cost to do one of these super high bungees?

[DBru]

This looks absolutely...insane.

 

Awesome video and PTR!

[Sunfire]

Wow, this looks like one heck of an experience. But I think I'll pass. Sure, I'll try skydiving one day, and I can take any Skycoaster the amusement world can dish out. Hell, give me the Stratosphere's Skyjump and I'll try that. But bungee jumping, I don't know. There's just something about it that scares the crap out of me. Glad you enjoyed it though!

[SharkTums]

Awesome Photo TR! I don't think I would be able to Bungee off of something that high unless it was for something like "The Amazing Race". Just out of curiosity - how much does it cost to do one of these super high bungees?

 

I checked the website and this one looks to be about 130 Euro for one jump.

[Der Der Dongt]

Thanks everyone I'm glad you liked it!

 

Just out of curiosity - how much does it cost to do one of these super high bungees?

 

If you just show up at the bridge you pay 145€ for one jump.

If you book it online you pay 132€

 

However we still had a coupon form last year, 35€ off (you get one after every jump) and since we originally booked a jump at Schlegeissperre which is a little cheaper anyway we ended up paying only 95€ each.

 

As a bigger group you could probably get a good discount as well.