The May long weekend brought a mix of rain and skydivers to the Shuswap Regional Airport. 

Approximately 17 parachutists participated in Skydive Salmon Arm's Mayhem Boogie held at the airport May 16-19. Skydive Salmon Arm's drop zone manager Sara Langlois said the on-and-off rainfall throughout the event put a bit of a damper on things, as did the low cloud cover which at times prevented the Nomad Air Skyvan from taking people up. 

"It was a bit of a slower weekend but we got lots of loads up," said Langlois, adding about 16 loads went up, each carrying 20 jumpers. 

"We had a couple of tandems, we had a lot of just public show up and do a ride in the front seat of the plane," said Langlois. "We had a lot of kids, families that showed up with their kids that just wanted to watch the skydivers land so that was pretty cool."

The weekend's colder weather (which was below 0 at 10,000 feet), kept people from doing another record breaking naked tandem jump, . 

"We have that planned for September ÎÚÑ»´«Ã½“ theyÎÚÑ»´«Ã½™re going to try to beat their record when itÎÚÑ»´«Ã½™s a little nicer out," said Langlois. "But yeah, it was freezing. ItÎÚÑ»´«Ã½™s also 20 degrees colder at 10,000 than it is on the ground, so it was in the minuses at some point. There was snow hitting the visors."