Over the last few days I've been "ridge running" on Synuefe VM-D C15-10 2 A.
Essentially this activity involves attempting to travel as far as possible along one of the ridges of this extraordinary planet, something which was first brought to my attention by Cmdr -NeXuS- of Delta Squadron. You can find more information about the exact location towards the bottom of the following forum post ...
A-guide-to-good-base-jumping-locations
On my first attempt earlier in the week I had a pretty good run (shown in red on the image above) which included a certain amount of luck (if I'm being honest) where I fell off the edge of the primary ridge, managed to bounce across the top of another ridge and then continue my journey along a third (before eventually falling off that). The full journey can be viewed (at x4 speed) in the following video.
Anyway ... today I made another attempt at jumping across to the long middle ridge but the light was poor (yes, that IS my excuse) and I fell ... badly ... and ended up WAYYYYYY down the bottom of an extremely steep ravine that was utterly impossible to drive out of. I recalled my ship (which thankfully came down right above my SRV) but unsurprisingly it couldn't land nor even get close enough to the ground for me to perform a mid-air boarding manoeuvre (which is sometimes possible).
I was about to give up when a thought occured to me. Could I scramble the SRV up onto the back of my ship and then use my own ship's takeoff to launch me up out of the canyon?
The following video records what followed (which I thought was pretty cool and serves to remind fellow planetary explorers that it's never over until it's over).
Essentially this activity involves attempting to travel as far as possible along one of the ridges of this extraordinary planet, something which was first brought to my attention by Cmdr -NeXuS- of Delta Squadron. You can find more information about the exact location towards the bottom of the following forum post ...
A-guide-to-good-base-jumping-locations
On my first attempt earlier in the week I had a pretty good run (shown in red on the image above) which included a certain amount of luck (if I'm being honest) where I fell off the edge of the primary ridge, managed to bounce across the top of another ridge and then continue my journey along a third (before eventually falling off that). The full journey can be viewed (at x4 speed) in the following video.
I was about to give up when a thought occured to me. Could I scramble the SRV up onto the back of my ship and then use my own ship's takeoff to launch me up out of the canyon?
The following video records what followed (which I thought was pretty cool and serves to remind fellow planetary explorers that it's never over until it's over).
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