Local adventurer JT Holmes photographed this amazing summertime view taken with a GoPro Hero 4 Session with Chris Boyle skydiving over Lake Tahoe’s Emerald Bay. “One thing that is quite cool about jumping over Lake Tahoe is that you're at high altitude. So, the landings tend to be fast and fun,” says Holmes. “They’re also in extremely special places, like Emerald Bay or Kings Beach or Tahoe City beaches. We tend to do it early in the morning and it's quite an exhilarating way to start the day. Sometimes we joke that we have skipped breakfast and gone straight to launch.”
“We jump early because nobody's typically on the beaches then, and one good thing about the drought is that the beaches are very big, making the landing areas less technical,” he said. “We are eagerly anticipating a commercial drop zone, which will be up and running at the Truckee airport in the near future.”
