9 minutes ago I had no idea who Ryan Bean was. Now I know he's what would have happened if Greg Louganis was born in Gen Z. This is nuts.
YouTube algorithm served this one up this morning, so thanks YouTube. Let's start with the basics. Quad means four, quint means five, and a gainer is when you jump forwards off something and do a backflip. You probably knew all that, but I'm covering it just in case.
Next, cliff jumping is ridiculously dangerous for a whole bunch of reasons. Yeah, believe it or not, I did it, once. My high school friends and I from Boise when to up to Lucky Peak reservoir once, had a kind of hike around, dudes picnic day, and found a cliff about 35 feet high that we all jumped off. That's small by cliff diving standards, but enough to get the juices flowing for most people. If you are going to jump off something high into water, first check out the water. Make sure it's deep enough, there are no hidden rocks, logs, alligators, or those giant catfish that eat people on the River Monsters show. Once you know you're landing make sure the take off isn't slippery or sandy. A minor slip jumping off a high place can turn into a really bad day, like broken neck bad. Best if you don't ever try shit like this. But I have a bunch of crazy people who read my blog, so take all needed precautions if you do. Jump off some local high dives into a pool first. There's a ton of impact even the 35 foot little cliff we jumped off in high school, and that was straight forward, feet first jumping. Be smart if you're going to do something stupid.
As you know by now, this blog is about cool, weird, and historic type locations in California. Lucky for me, Emerald Pools, came up on a Google Maps search. So this appears to be Emerald Pools hiking area in the Emigrant Pass area of East central California. Basically, it's not far from I-80, west of Truckee and Lake Tahoe. This place looks amazing, so it's definitely in the cool category of California locations. Here's the website for Emerald Pools if you want to go hike it, it's a 7/10ths of a mile out and back hike.
Ryan Bean is _ryan.bean_ on Instagram, and he has a YouTube channel as well. This guy is nuts, and he obviously has years of some kind of gymnastics training at some point. Seriously, just watch, don't try to imitate this guy.
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