The place
Modern BASE began on El Capitan. Michael Pelkey and Brian Schubert jumped it under round canopies on 24 July 1966, and on 8 August 1978 Carl Boenish filmed a group jumping it with ram-air canopies, tracking away from the wall. The park allowed jumps by permit from 1 August 1980, stopped them on 9 September, and has banned BASE ever since.
Is it legal? Illegal in the park since the 1980 permit trial.
- 1exit to start
- 2more to find
The exits and launches
1 exit you know from the start. 2 more are out there for whoever walks the rim and looks.
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El Capitan
■■■■■Off the top of the Nose, 900 m of granite over El Capitan Meadow: where BASE began, in 1966 and 1978.
