What is your favorite thing to do? There are lots of answers to this question but would any of you say jumping off a cliff? If you were Jon Veness, a senior about to graduate, that's exactly what you would say.
Last summer Jon tried it for the very first time. With five of his best bros after a forty-five minute drive up to Canon Falls they had a choice to make. Do they jump off the thirty foot cliff or the fifty foot? As first time jumpers, the boys started with the lower jump to get used to the fall. After a few times to get a feel for it they moved up to the fifty. Now that's the only one Jon jumps from. "Its a total rush." He told me that the best part of the experience is the fall itself. "You're falling through the air and your arms and legs are flailing and reaching out, trying to grab hold of anything to stop the fall but you know they wont find anything. Then you hit the water like a stone and it swirls up around you before you swim back up and break the surface. I've never done anything more thrilling."
Jon went to the falls a total of five times last summer and intends to keep going back for a long time.
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