A guide to good base jumping (and other SRV extreme sport) locations
Several years ago I had one of the most fun Elite: Dangerous sessions ever doing SRV base jumping off the top of a huge mountain on Njokujinun 1 with Cmdrs Snowman and PeachSlicesV.
Source: https://youtu.be/cQRnMqEpU4Y
Alas, that mountain has since been nerfed out of existence and, although I've looked from time to time, I've never found another quite like it.
This thread is an attempt to pull together a list of great places to go base jumping in an SRV.
What I'm looking for are huge mountains, with a nice flat area on top where you can happily land a ship or two. Preferably they should be low-G (less than 0.2 although I guess there's some fun to be had from base jumping on high G worlds too). If they have interesting slopes and/or interesting scenery/views then all the better.
If anyone has (or finds) any of these could they post the following information:
In addition to high mountains I guess we might as well catalogue any other really good SRV extreme sport locations (e.g. canyon jumping or ridge running).
I have one mountain candidate which I'll post here later and I also seem to recall that one of the engineer bases has some terrific canyons around it which can be cleared in a mighty SRV bound.
In the words of Cmdr PeachSlicesV - "For those that are about to jump, may the mountain make them truly grateful"!
Base jump mountains
Downhill SRV challenge at Charon mountain (Schimz)
System: Sol
Planetary body: Charon
Coordinates: -9.6423, 157.1408
Distance from Sol: 0 ly
Gravity: 0.03 G
Height: ?
Landing: good
More info .. Exit from Oluwefami Depot (CapitanAceR)
System: Vesper-M4
Planetary body: 9C (Oluwefami Depot)
Coordinates: 22.9395, -4.2683
Distance from Sol: 61.40 ly
Gravity: 0.11 G
Height: ?
Landing: good (planetary base)
More info .. Epic mountain on Pomeche 2C (Schimz), (Toberius)
System: Pomeche
Planetary body: 2C ("Epic Mountain Range" tourist beacon)
Coordinates: 24.9590, 27.9263 (also 24.1503, 28.7058)
Distance from Sol: 99.79 ly
Gravity: 0.07 G
Height: ?
Landing: good
More info .. Mount Nervi - a leap of faith (Susanna)
System: Nervi
Planetary body: 3A
Coordinates: 22.5596, 113.1018
Distance from Sol: 110.27 ly
Gravity: 0.09 G
Height: ?
Landing: ?
More info .. Smith Base is at the foot of a magnificent mountain in Beta Sculptoris (Lightspeed)
System: Beta Sculptoris
Planetary body: ABC 4 A B ("Smith Base" planetary outpost)
Coordinates: -5.0528, 98.0331
Distance from Sol: 174.05 ly
Gravity: 0.11 G
Height: 7 km (main rise), 21 km (above Smith Base).
Landing: good
More info .. Mountain close to Dav's Hope - Fun to climb, deadly to go down (Schimz)
System: Hyades Sector DR-V c2-23
Planetary body: A5 ("Dav's Hope" planetary settlement)
Coordinates: 46.4223, -30.7504
Distance from Sol: 184.45 ly
Gravity: 0.08 G
Height: 10 km (peak), 6.06 km (landing spot)
Landing: poor (very rugged terrain, need a smaller ship like a DBX, landing spot at 45.3473, -30.9284)
More info .. The new Pomeche - a base jumper's paradise
System: Synuefe VM-D c15-10
Planetary body: 2A
Coordinates: -33.4879, 136.9019 (also 29.7121, -7.5078 and -15.4859, -6.8839 and many others)
Distance from Sol: 742.87 ly
Gravity: 0.06 G
Height: 15km
Landing: fair for first site, surprisingly difficult for the second (at least in a Python), fair for the third
More info ..
Planet Wilson - a good place for giant base jumping mountains (Bomba Luigi)
System: PRAEA EUQ GK-Y B30-0
Planetary Body: 2
Coordinates: -10.5513, -36.3765 (aka "Mt. Turner"?)
Distance from Sol: 1,107.86 ly
Gravity: 0.07 G
Height: 15.5 km
Landing: good
More info ..
The best jump I've had was at this location en route to Colonia (CMDR ANCALAGON)
System: Lysoosms XJ-G c24-21
Planetary body: 2A
Coordinates: 21.0309, -131.6801
Distance from Sol: ~8,000 ly
Gravity: 0.07 G
Height: 20 km?
Landing: ?
More info ..
New-Major-Mountain-Smojai-IT-P-D6-2-A-2-A - "Mount Wesley" (DasExorcist)
System: Smojai-IT-P D6-2
Planetary body: A 2 A
Distance from Sol: 3,452 ly
Gravity: 0.07 G
Landing: good
More info ..
Tall mountain range on a rocky ice world (Jimmox72)
System: Crookoa KA-A D1280
Planetary body: A 6 A
Distance from Sol: 13 kly?
Gravity: ?
Landing: ?
More info ..
Ace Rimmer's jump in IC2391
System: IC 2391 Sector FG-X b1-9
Planetary body: 1
Coordinates: -15.9729, 13.5947 OR (better) -15.8798, 13.60807
Distance from Sol: 575.6 ly
Gravity: 0.5g
Height: 1-2 km
Landing: poor
More info ..
Fabulous looking Noth Pole mountain with (barely) landable peak (Corruption Stu on the Buur Pit discord)
System: GD 140
Planetary body: A 1 A
Coordinates: 89.1955, 129.9026
Distance from Sol: 51.55 ly
Gravity: 0.07
Height: ?
Landing: next to impossible
More info ..
Base jump and flive to the Stranded Snake settlement
System: HR 5906
Planetary body: AB 2 A
Coordinates: 3.2, -97.0
Distance from Sol: 420.28 ly
Gravity: 0.06
Height: ?
Landing: next to impossible? (best to land lower down and then climb)
More info ..
Canyon jumping sites
Canyon ridge jumping (Aashenfox)
System: Sol
Planetary body: Ariel
Distance from Sol: 0 ly
Gravity: 0.03-0.04 G
Landing: ?
More info ..
Canyon jumping & racing (Arkadi)
System: Har Pahary
Planetary body: Har Pahary 1
Coordinates: -40.1137, 75.0169
Distance from Sol: 104,59 ly
Gravity: 0.07 G
Landing: good?
More info ..
Ridge running sites
System: Pomeche
Planetary body: 2 C
Coordinates: -13, -60
Distance from Sol: 100ly
Gravity: 0.08 G
Landing: excellent
More info ..
System: Synuefe VM-D C15-10
Planetary body: 2 A
Coordinates: 1.9099, -122.6589
Gravity: 0.07 G
Landing: surprisingly excellent
More info ..
(n.b. this is the route I took in the following video, the jump across to the neighbouring ridges was unintended!)
]Source: https://youtu.be/6W-T4B1hJOU[/video]
I'd like to thank Delta Squadron and Cmdr -NeXuS- for the discovery of this particular location and for putting me on to this new extreme SRV sport.
Other
Awesome "Sandy Ring" icy SRV racing circuit (Alec Turner)
System: LFT 37
Planetary body: 6 A
Coordinates: -13.2, 43.48
Distance from Sol: 65.64 ly
Gravity: 0.08 G
Landing: good
More info ..
]Source: https://youtu.be/SCUYLLOgRhI[/video]
Also - an SLF fly-thru of the course: https://youtu.be/dJ0YBeHZK5c
Visual signposts ..
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...-Grand-Prix!?p=4631913&viewfull=1#post4631913
Fairly brutal 1.2g 50km cross-crater race (Tethys Empire Crew)
System: Sigma Pegasi
Planetary body: 3
Location: next to Keyes Beacon station
Distance from Sol: 89 ly
Gravity: 1.21 G
Landing: excellent
More info ...
Race guide courtesy of the Tethys Empire Crew
I also wanted to give a special shoutout to Eagle131 of the Ski Team who put me on to ColdGlider's truly awesome spreadsheet of similar locations over here:
Ski Team Catalog
Several years ago I had one of the most fun Elite: Dangerous sessions ever doing SRV base jumping off the top of a huge mountain on Njokujinun 1 with Cmdrs Snowman and PeachSlicesV.
Alas, that mountain has since been nerfed out of existence and, although I've looked from time to time, I've never found another quite like it.
This thread is an attempt to pull together a list of great places to go base jumping in an SRV.
What I'm looking for are huge mountains, with a nice flat area on top where you can happily land a ship or two. Preferably they should be low-G (less than 0.2 although I guess there's some fun to be had from base jumping on high G worlds too). If they have interesting slopes and/or interesting scenery/views then all the better.
If anyone has (or finds) any of these could they post the following information:
- system name
- planetary body
- co-ordinates of landing spot
- distance from Sol
- gravity
- height (to get this flight dead level away from the landing spot until your ship is over the ground at the base of the mountain and then make a note of your altitude).
- availability of flat landing areas for the ship (basically rate them as good, fair, poor, impossible)
In addition to high mountains I guess we might as well catalogue any other really good SRV extreme sport locations (e.g. canyon jumping or ridge running).
I have one mountain candidate which I'll post here later and I also seem to recall that one of the engineer bases has some terrific canyons around it which can be cleared in a mighty SRV bound.
In the words of Cmdr PeachSlicesV - "For those that are about to jump, may the mountain make them truly grateful"!
Base jump mountains
Downhill SRV challenge at Charon mountain (Schimz)
System: Sol
Planetary body: Charon
Coordinates: -9.6423, 157.1408
Distance from Sol: 0 ly
Gravity: 0.03 G
Height: ?
Landing: good
More info .. Exit from Oluwefami Depot (CapitanAceR)
System: Vesper-M4
Planetary body: 9C (Oluwefami Depot)
Coordinates: 22.9395, -4.2683
Distance from Sol: 61.40 ly
Gravity: 0.11 G
Height: ?
Landing: good (planetary base)
More info .. Epic mountain on Pomeche 2C (Schimz), (Toberius)
System: Pomeche
Planetary body: 2C ("Epic Mountain Range" tourist beacon)
Coordinates: 24.9590, 27.9263 (also 24.1503, 28.7058)
Distance from Sol: 99.79 ly
Gravity: 0.07 G
Height: ?
Landing: good
More info .. Mount Nervi - a leap of faith (Susanna)
System: Nervi
Planetary body: 3A
Coordinates: 22.5596, 113.1018
Distance from Sol: 110.27 ly
Gravity: 0.09 G
Height: ?
Landing: ?
More info .. Smith Base is at the foot of a magnificent mountain in Beta Sculptoris (Lightspeed)
System: Beta Sculptoris
Planetary body: ABC 4 A B ("Smith Base" planetary outpost)
Coordinates: -5.0528, 98.0331
Distance from Sol: 174.05 ly
Gravity: 0.11 G
Height: 7 km (main rise), 21 km (above Smith Base).
Landing: good
More info .. Mountain close to Dav's Hope - Fun to climb, deadly to go down (Schimz)
System: Hyades Sector DR-V c2-23
Planetary body: A5 ("Dav's Hope" planetary settlement)
Coordinates: 46.4223, -30.7504
Distance from Sol: 184.45 ly
Gravity: 0.08 G
Height: 10 km (peak), 6.06 km (landing spot)
Landing: poor (very rugged terrain, need a smaller ship like a DBX, landing spot at 45.3473, -30.9284)
More info .. The new Pomeche - a base jumper's paradise
System: Synuefe VM-D c15-10
Planetary body: 2A
Coordinates: -33.4879, 136.9019 (also 29.7121, -7.5078 and -15.4859, -6.8839 and many others)
Distance from Sol: 742.87 ly
Gravity: 0.06 G
Height: 15km
Landing: fair for first site, surprisingly difficult for the second (at least in a Python), fair for the third
More info ..
The planet itself is absolutely stunning and well worth a visit in its own right. The entire surface is ravaged by these incredible, 15km deep, fog filled ravines.
The cherry on the top for base jumpers tho' is that there are a number of greenish mountains with domed landable summits which rise around 15km above the pinkish surface below.
Here's the jump from the -33.4879, 136.9019 site.
]Source: https://youtu.be/CWEXIU2jYjI[/video]
And here's the jump from the 29.7121, -7.5078 site.
]Source: https://youtu.be/Ak7eyY_wiFY[/video]
The cherry on the top for base jumpers tho' is that there are a number of greenish mountains with domed landable summits which rise around 15km above the pinkish surface below.
Here's the jump from the -33.4879, 136.9019 site.
And here's the jump from the 29.7121, -7.5078 site.
System: PRAEA EUQ GK-Y B30-0
Planetary Body: 2
Coordinates: -10.5513, -36.3765 (aka "Mt. Turner"?)
Distance from Sol: 1,107.86 ly
Gravity: 0.07 G
Height: 15.5 km
Landing: good
More info ..
System: Lysoosms XJ-G c24-21
Planetary body: 2A
Coordinates: 21.0309, -131.6801
Distance from Sol: ~8,000 ly
Gravity: 0.07 G
Height: 20 km?
Landing: ?
More info ..
System: Smojai-IT-P D6-2
Planetary body: A 2 A
Distance from Sol: 3,452 ly
Gravity: 0.07 G
Landing: good
More info ..
"The central peak reaches around 65 km in height, but is not good for base jumping because of its size. There are smaller peaks around the edges of the mountain that reach approximately 45-55 km in height and make for great base jumping (see video below for example of jump from "Ava Peak" above a crater/canyon system)."
]Source: https://youtu.be/prN6uw8dkv4[/video]
And here's a video of my own showing a couple of base jumps plus an SRV climb of the mountain.
]Source: https://youtu.be/XsKKXhDiQE4[/video]
Note: at the time of writing this is the largest known mountain in the galaxy.
And here's a video of my own showing a couple of base jumps plus an SRV climb of the mountain.
Note: at the time of writing this is the largest known mountain in the galaxy.
System: Crookoa KA-A D1280
Planetary body: A 6 A
Distance from Sol: 13 kly?
Gravity: ?
Landing: ?
More info ..
Tall mountain range on a rocky ice world. Crookoa KA-A D1280 A 6 A. The crater in the gap between that ice peak on the left and the mountains in the middle is @ 17.2 -116.8
The tallest mountain peak in the centre is 17km above the general surface. I was able to land on it:
... and so of course I had to get in an SRV and jump off
The tallest mountain peak in the centre is 17km above the general surface. I was able to land on it:
... and so of course I had to get in an SRV and jump off
System: IC 2391 Sector FG-X b1-9
Planetary body: 1
Coordinates: -15.9729, 13.5947 OR (better) -15.8798, 13.60807
Distance from Sol: 575.6 ly
Gravity: 0.5g
Height: 1-2 km
Landing: poor
More info ..
Video: https://youtu.be/KNp41aQh8k4
System: GD 140
Planetary body: A 1 A
Coordinates: 89.1955, 129.9026
Distance from Sol: 51.55 ly
Gravity: 0.07
Height: ?
Landing: next to impossible
More info ..
System: HR 5906
Planetary body: AB 2 A
Coordinates: 3.2, -97.0
Distance from Sol: 420.28 ly
Gravity: 0.06
Height: ?
Landing: next to impossible? (best to land lower down and then climb)
More info ..
This is the Stranded Snake settlement ..
This is the view from the nearby mountain top (the settlement is off in the distance beyond the crater) ..
And here's the jump and subsequent journey back to the settlement.
This is the view from the nearby mountain top (the settlement is off in the distance beyond the crater) ..
And here's the jump and subsequent journey back to the settlement.
Canyon jumping sites
Canyon ridge jumping (Aashenfox)
System: Sol
Planetary body: Ariel
Distance from Sol: 0 ly
Gravity: 0.03-0.04 G
Landing: ?
More info ..
Video: https://youtu.be/Env8NTvKA2o
System: Har Pahary
Planetary body: Har Pahary 1
Coordinates: -40.1137, 75.0169
Distance from Sol: 104,59 ly
Gravity: 0.07 G
Landing: good?
More info ..
This place is well suited for beginners. It features steep canyon walls, it isn't terrible high and the bottom of the canyon invites for exploring and racing.
A special bonus to this location is, that there is the Coriolis Starport "Leonard Station" right next to the planet.
]Source: https://youtu.be/w3RDKM3VjQs[/video]
A special bonus to this location is, that there is the Coriolis Starport "Leonard Station" right next to the planet.
Ridge running sites
System: Pomeche
Planetary body: 2 C
Coordinates: -13, -60
Distance from Sol: 100ly
Gravity: 0.08 G
Landing: excellent
More info ..
The original classic ridged planet, now the home of the Pomeche Ridge Challenge.
]Source: https://youtu.be/sGKxhrgbtDE[/video]
Planetary body: 2 A
Coordinates: 1.9099, -122.6589
Gravity: 0.07 G
Landing: surprisingly excellent
More info ..
(n.b. this is the route I took in the following video, the jump across to the neighbouring ridges was unintended!)
I'd like to thank Delta Squadron and Cmdr -NeXuS- for the discovery of this particular location and for putting me on to this new extreme SRV sport.
Other
Awesome "Sandy Ring" icy SRV racing circuit (Alec Turner)
System: LFT 37
Planetary body: 6 A
Coordinates: -13.2, 43.48
Distance from Sol: 65.64 ly
Gravity: 0.08 G
Landing: good
More info ..
Also - an SLF fly-thru of the course: https://youtu.be/dJ0YBeHZK5c
Visual signposts ..
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...-Grand-Prix!?p=4631913&viewfull=1#post4631913
System: Sigma Pegasi
Planetary body: 3
Location: next to Keyes Beacon station
Distance from Sol: 89 ly
Gravity: 1.21 G
Landing: excellent
More info ...
Race guide courtesy of the Tethys Empire Crew
I also wanted to give a special shoutout to Eagle131 of the Ski Team who put me on to ColdGlider's truly awesome spreadsheet of similar locations over here:
Ski Team Catalog
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