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Smallest Parachute Swooping Soboba Mountain - 59 sq ft Icarus

3,662 views · Published 5 April 2016 · 2:40 · Indexed 19 October 2026

Channel: Daredevil Girl · 2016 · Sports

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I almost threw up before this skydive, I was so nervous. My favorite thing to do is proximity fly down mountains. It's the endless swoop. Skydive #1353 for me was a swoop down Soboba Mountain on my pink 59 sq foot (2.1 wing loading) Icarus Neos canopy (parachute). This was my first jump from a Cessna over Soboba on my new wing. I had one previous skydive over Soboba the year before on my 67 sq ft Icarus FX. For the jump in this video I flew my new pink 59 square foot Icarus NEOS. As I flew over this mountain I hit speeds of 40 - 60 mph. This was a day I will never forget - August 24, 2006. Soboba Mountain is in Hemet, California. It's 2,200ft tall. Our jump altitude was 6,200 ft, so we exited the Cessna 182 at 4,000 above the mountain. This was several years before the Soboba Flight Park was opened. Soboba is NOT for newbies.

This is one of my top ten most favorite skydives ever. I love to swoop mountains! This was my third swoop down Soboba total. My first two swoops down Soboba were a few months prior on my 67 sq foot Icarus Extreme FX. Since this was my first swoop down the mountain on my 59 sq foot NEOS, I was very excited...and a little nervous. I almost got sick and threw up before the jump. I pulled myself together and nailed it. As far as I know, this is the smallest canopy that has been flown down Soboba.

I had a super fun swoop on the deck down the mountain. Wyat Drewes followed me and filmed and took pictures of the jump. We got a little low coming in to land straight in next to the road. Our landings were a bit rough. They were more like crash landings. Everyone was ok and no one was seriously injured. We were a little bruised and scraped up, but that was normal for Soboba. The landings were usually down wind or no wind. Part of being a great high performance canopy pilot is to know how to handle rough landings because things can happen really fast. We are not crazy, we are amazing!

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