A "Day At The Deeps"

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The video depicts children in Duluth, Minnesota, jumping into a pool in a rocky crevasse.  Locally known as "The Deeps," what is often mistaken for a quarry in still photos is actually a natural basalt formation at Amity Falls in Lester Park.  Some techniques for accessing the water require jumping a considerable horizontal distance.

Via Shorpy, where a  link to the video was posted in a comment on a still photo of the same site being used by theoretically-NSFW naked children a century ago.

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This sort of thing is so much fun. I love jumping off waterfalls (after scouting out the place to dive into first, of course).

There's a similar place called punchbowl falls on an incredible waterfall filled hike in Oregon. I jumped off it last summer...with my friend's brand new digital camera in my pocket. Oops :(
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That Shorpy photo is of extraordinary quality of you click through to the full size copy. However much I like digital photography, large-format film had a lot to offer.
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Hrm. My previous post is flagged. Ah well. Just wanted to point out that this is a dupe. Search the site for folding chair or flexible love. Been posted twice before.
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I agree, I'm pretty sure this has been posted before also. I still think someone should take this idea, make it affordable, and sell it in the US in Walmart or something and you could make big bucks though.
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I've never seen this posted on the front page, but I'd also be interested in seeing people actually sitting on the seat portions. Looks like a neat party trick, though.
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There is a part 1 on youtube that shows two women sitting on the chair. Seems to be fairly stable. But, then again, sitting lightly and treating it as a couch are to different things entirely.
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"John Farrier
December 29th, 2009 at 11:38 pm

JamesM, I've searched and haven't found duplicates anywhere."

add neatorama dot com to this

2007/03/02/update-on-amazing-folding-chair/

Maybe trying this variation of the url won't get flagged this time. *sigh*
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