It’s vacation time! On our way to Summer Lake Hot Springs, we stopped at the Peter Skene Ogden State Scenic Viewpoint and watched bungee jumping for a bit.
We’ve been to this viewpoint many times, including the chronicle of this visit in 2014 with one of my favorite picture of Matt. It’s a deep crevasse, that viewpoint, and thus good for Central Oregon Bungee Adventures to set up shop.
It’s not a speedy process, the bungee jump. After getting strapped in there’s the long wait to get the courage to make the jump. The first person we saw jump went relatively quickly, the second one too longer. But she eventually did it.
It turns out the fun part while watching is not the initial jump, but the first bounce back up. Here’s a photo to orient yourself. Take note of where the bridge meets the side of the crevasse before scrolling to the next picture.
The jumpers go all the way down, and then pop! right back up. They tend to have arms and legs flailing as they bounce.
Once all the bouncing stops, they are reeled up so that another jumper can take their place.
“I can’t believe we will be doing that in just one hour!” cried one of three older teenagers who were also watching. We didn’t stay around to see their jump, but I bet they had fun.