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Oct 27, 2021 · Discover Evel Knievel's Snake River Canyon Jump Site in Twin Falls, Idaho: Where the famed daredevil attempted to launch himself across a canyon in a custom-built rocket.
Evel Knievel's Famous Snake River Canyon Jump. On September 8th, 1974, famous daredevil Evel Knievel climbed into a steam-powered rocket and attempted to blast across Idaho's Snake...
On September 8, 1974, Knievel attempted to jump across the Snake River Canyon in Idaho using a rocket-powered cycle called the Skycycle X-2. The jump failed due to a parachute malfunction, but Knievel survived with minor injuries.
Sep 2, 2023 · Over Labor Day weekend 49 years ago, Butte, Montana daredevil Evel Knievel failed spectacularly trying to jump the Snake River. He successfully jumped his motorcycle 275 times, but crash-landed into fame with the 15 he didn't.
Jump Site. In his risk-taking heyday, nothing seemed to intimidate the notorious motorcycle daredevil Evel Knievel. Not even the 500-foot-deep, quarter-mile-wide Snake River Canyon, which he famously attempted to jump on a steam-powered skycycle in September 1974.
Sep 15, 2016 · Evel Knievel sits in his steam-powered "rocket cycle" before his September 8, 1974, attempt to jump the Snake River Canyon near Twin Falls, Idaho. (Note his lucky rabbit's foot.) Forty-two...
Apr 25, 2011 · Maybe the name of the canyon changed during those eight years from the Grand Canyon to Snake River because of circumstances. Maybe the motorcycle jump became a rocket jump because of simple...
Nov 2, 2022 · This is where motorcycle legend Evel Knievel tried, and failed, to jump a rocket-powered bike across the Snake River Canyon in 1974. Amazingly, most of this jump still exists today, and is open to visitors .
May 14, 2023 · Stunt performer Evel Knievel attempted to jump Idaho’s Snake River in 1974. A parachute failure resulted in him falling into the canyon below.
Sep 14, 2016 · On September 8, 1974, Evel Knievel climbed into a “rocket cycle” and blasted off a cliff over Idaho’s Snake River. Stuntman Eddie Braun is trying the jump.