Bungee Jumping Guide

“I’m about to throw myself off a bridge.”

These are the only words that come to thoughts whilst standing on the precipice of Whistler Bungee’s gleaming metallic bridge, stretched over a massive canyon in Whistler Resort Valley. Your clammy hands are clutching at the metal gate, your knees shivering like tubes of jelly. You’re possibly wondering why you decided to defy gravity and fate all in one leap, even though scattered imagery from your distant childhood surface in your conscious mind. You take a breath and push these thoughts away.

Instead you gaze down upon the raging waters in the Cheakamus river 160 feet below. You feel the breeze on your skin, the harping from the occasional bald eagle soaring overhead, plus the pounding of your beating heart. Your close friends behind you quietly hold their breath in anticipation, wondering if you’ll leap with wild abandon in to the abyss, or if you’ll remain forever clutching the bridge, forcing them to start the dreaded countdown, thereby compelling you to produce the selection that will echo largely being a metaphor for how you will be remembered.

Will your eulogy read like an adventure novel from the dzth century, being a thrill-seeker who sought to suck the incredibly marrow of life in every knowledge? Or will your funeral be a somber affair, with black umbrellas huddled under soft rain, as they speak of you as the cautious follower who lacked the capacity to proclaim that existence is only for those with ambition enough to reach out and claim it?

As you stand on Whistler Bungee’s bridge, you peer out into your fears and realize the option was made even prior to you left your house to arrive inside imposing beauty of old growth forests and rugged basalt column cliffs. The only real choice you have to make is…how will you jump?

Luckily Whistler Bungee features 4 ways to attach their bungee cord and throw your self to the oblivion.

1. Chest / Waist

Perhaps this sounds a little odd, but jumping with a chest and waist harness provides ample comfort and security. (Also you are less likely to have squeamish if the world isn’t upside down).
The chest and waist harness hold you in an upright position throughout the rebounds (which are quite high) and makes it possible for you to marvel at the canyon’s awe inspiring beauty as you wait for them to pull you back up to the bridge. Several cords can be employed for this jump to provide rebounds that faster/higher or softer/slower.

2. Ankle / Waist

The traditional solution to jump, this technique ensures you plummet headfirst towards the seething Cheakamus rapids. Thankfully, Whistler Bungee uses a softer cord for this sort of jump so there is much less of a spine-stinging snap when the cord stretches taut. A secondary waist harness enables you to be upright whilst they haul you back up to the bridge.

3. Tandem

Two people harnessed for the same cord and thrown off a precipice? Sign me up. Whistler Bungee delivers tandem jumping for couples that desire a unique solution to express their love, and for good friends too petrified to hurl themselves alone to the abyss. They propose a combined weight of no much more than 350 lbs (unless you don’t mind a dip inside the river).

4. Wheelchair

Think just mainly because you’re inside a wheelchair you won’t be in a position to partake in a plummet? Feel again. Whistler Bungee provides a comprehensive setup for wheelchair jumpers, as long as you possess moderate finger and hand dexterity and are able to attach the retrieval line to the harness system. Here’s how it works: Whistler Bungee fits you in the waist and chest harness, then rigs a separate one for the wheelchair. The force is limited for the chair and not you. They propose the easiest strategy to launch yourself off the bridge is to acquire 3 good friends to hoist your around the railing.

Now that you might have chosen your method of launch, you are hovering on the edge of Whistler Bungee’s bridge. Bald eagles, rushing river, throwing caution for the wind and all that. You’ve got reached the moment of truth. As you take that fateful step across the threshold, with nothing but empty space between you as well as the torrent below, you understand the danger is a slight fallacy. After all, Whistler bungee has a perfect security record and operators with above 17 years encounter.

So you close you eyes, and leap.

Whistler Bungee, British Columbia’s highest and most pristine year round bungee jumping website, is located 15 min south of world renowned Whistler Village Resort, off HWY 99.