Three men pleaded guilty to illegally entering a provincial park after they BASE jumped off Ha Ling peak on Canada Day last year.
Alister Clark, 36, from Calgary, Spencer Bisley, 45, from Corvallis, Ore. and 28-year-old Canmore resident Sean Larose were not present in Canmore Provincial Court last Thursday (Jan. 9) for the guilty pleas. However, lawyer Craig Leggatt entered the pleas for them.
As a result, Crown prosecutor Bev Shugg agreed to drop additional charges against the threesome, including giving false or misleading statements against Larose and undertaking an illegal aircraft takeoff for all three under the Provincial Parks Act.
The joint recommendation for each was a $200 fine and a $1,300 contribution to Friends of Kananaskis Country.
“They were jumping off Ha Ling peak with paragliding suits on,” Leggatt told Justice S. Morgan. “They were BASE jumping of a sort.”
At the time of their arrest, conservation officers confiscated their equipment and with the guilty plea, once they have paid the fines and donations, their property will be returned.
BASE jumping is an activity that requires jumps from four categories of fixed objects – building, antenna, span, Earth – with a parachute.
