Whenever I thought of the upcoming Nitro Circus trip to the lake, my palms immediately started sweating. A week of fun on the lake with this group is not what most people would consider fun. I knew I was going to be lucky to come away uninjured or alive. Our goal was to get footage for the new Nitro Circus film “Double Wide” due out this fall.
The Nitro Circus rolls in style. I was picked up at the Las Vegas airport and taken to the owner of Nu Skin products “get away” house near Lake Mead. The house is entitled “Pirates Cove” which is basically “Pirates of the Caribbean” for adults. Long water slides, 60-foot mast jumps into small pools and pirate bars throughout the estate. I have never seen anything like this place and could easily spend a week there getting lost in all the details.
From there we loaded up a motor home, 2 fifth wheels, all the other trucks and headed for the lake. In all we had 2 houseboats, 3 cigarette boats, 4 ski boats and more toys than you can imagine.
Throughout the week we accomplished Big Wheel BASE jumps, Mtn Bike BASE jumps, rowdy zip lines, Rollovers for folks who have never skydived or BASE-jumped as well as many punishing stunts the crew was trying to step up too. I watched stunts executed to perfection and I also witnessed a few miracles. All in all, everyone came away in one piece. We had great time and I was stoked to play with the team again!
After the Lake, Pastrana, Plamer and myself rolled back to Vegas for some more BASE fun. Pastrana has some pull in Vegas…we showed up at 2 in the morning made one phone call, and found ourselves at the wind tunnel for a private middle of the night session.
The winds did not cooperate in Vegas but we made up for it with a private go-cart session with Cowboy Kenny Bartram, TP and TJ Lavin.
Make sure you check out the new Nitro Circus film“Double Wide”. You are not going to want to miss this one!
Ring Leader of the Nitro Circus…Travis Pastrana getting warmed up at “Pirates Cove”
One of the many nooks at Pirates Cove. The mast behind the girl goes up 60 feet with a platform to jump from. This is also the finishing pool for a legit water slide!
Some of the crew…after they ran out of gass.
TP’s Big Wheel BASE jump. This was a nasty 250 foot cliff right above our camp. TP had his heart set on riding a big wheel down this face. It was super gnarly and he went mocking down the side of this rock. TP crushed the jump in true form!
Next up was the zip line. After about 5 of us hit it, Jim DeChamp decided to try it out. You can see at the start of the zip line you are 80-90 feet off the deck. What you cannot tell is that the first 200 feet is over water that is only 2 feet deep. Somehow DeChamp managed to peel off the bar and fall every bit of 80 feet into 2 feet of water. Miraculously he was alright….
There was endless firework warfare!
TP, Plamer and myself getting ready to send it.
The aftermath…
Jim DeChamp redeeming himself with a rowdy Mountain bike BASE jump.
Waiting on wind….Not a bad view
Willie crum wanted air time himself. He decided to send the Big Wheel without a parachute. I am sure you can use your imagination to figure how this ended up.
Cowboy Kenny Bartram, TP, Me, TJ Lavin just after our private rally session.
Check out some helmet cam footage in the “BASE” section of the Video page!
Dude thats some pretty funny stuff, nice to see some sick hucks going down at Powell.
Hey Eric
This looks like it was an absolute ton of fun. I half wanted to read this and not ‘cos…well…I wasn’t there…but not being there made me wanna cling to every word…and so I kept on reading. The pics are …wow….is all I can say (especially the 4th pic).