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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Topic Author's Original Post - Sep 4, 2013 - 02:43pm PT
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I'm still trying to decide, I've done lots of dangerous things.
Photos help.
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Tried to wade across the Wabash River. Got swept over the old dam.
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TomCochrane
Trad climber
Santa Cruz Mountains and Monterey Bay
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driving on the freeway
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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If we go by actual, rather than potential, outcome, then bicycle commuting.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Can we include guns in this thread?
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Most dangerous?
Or most perceived as dangerous?
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The Larry
climber
Moab, UT
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Unprotected sex. Fer sure.
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Dropline
Mountain climber
Somewhere Up There
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I came in contact with a 7200 volt (supposedly) powerline. The current entered my body through my right hand and exited through my left, and in the process all of the air was forced from my lungs in a bizarre howl.
Luckily I was not burned, and my heart kept beating just fine, and there was no nerve damage. Very lucky.
Another time, a few years later, skydiving, I had an accidental dual deployment. Also not good. Both canopies flew though.
Still here.
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Sport climber
moving thru
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Involve myself in the lives of other humanoides....:D
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 4, 2013 - 02:58pm PT
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Gun stories are allowed.
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Deekaid
climber
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I agree with the Larry
also taking from drug dealers
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kaholatingtong
Trad climber
Nevada City
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bowling for pine trees in a pickup truck at high speed. no bueno. does it still count if its unintentional?
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Deekaid
climber
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sitting in front of my partner in crime while he played with a handgun in the backseat... I leaned forward to grab something off floor of the car as the shot went through the dashboard over my head
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Lynne Leichtfuss
Sport climber
moving thru
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Hey, ekat, any chance I'll ever see ya at FL again. One year that was dangerous for yo if I remember correctly. Cheers, Lynne
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PAUL SOUZA
Trad climber
Central Valley, CA
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Joining the SuperTaco.....
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Deekaid
climber
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falling asleep on a motorcycle after 60 plus straight hours of work
I should probably stop I could go on all day
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G_Gnome
Trad climber
who gave up and just goes sailing now!
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Lead Silver Slippers on Lamb Dome in Tuolumne and then Tune Up on Dozier also in Tuolumne. Thought I was gonna die on Tune Up and would have died had I fallen on Silver Slippers.
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Deekaid
climber
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one more ...called a Tongan a Samoan
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brotherbbock
Trad climber
Alta Loma, CA
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Got off route going up Snow Creek, had to free solo a sketchy, loose rock ridge in horrible weather. Any slip meant death.
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Magic Ed
Trad climber
Nuevo Leon, Mexico
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Man o man, I've done lots of dangerous stuff. Soloing at my limit; jumarring a thousand feet off the deck and forgetting to clip my daisies; body surfing in huge waves with a serious undertow; 8 of them, 3 of us in the Mexican desert; smuggling a large backpack full of weed across the Arizona border; snorting coke with John Belushi; driving around Mexico City for a couple of hours with my blind friend at the wheel--the list goes on and on.
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Rhodo-Router
Gym climber
sawatch choss
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Looking without leaping, top of West Mountain, Hueco. Tried to jump a chasm, failed to stick it, pinballed downward for ~20 feet. Could have been a hundred.
Soloing on old building, slate roof, high school, four stories up. Dumbest move was probably mantling a creaky snow-rail above the bathroom window- if it ripped, I would have gone to the [concrete] deck.
Mixing painkillers, beer, and a fast car.
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SCseagoat
Trad climber
Santa Cruz
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Taking turns driving the White Rim trail in Moab during a one day Mtn bike ride. At one point we went to trade drivers and as I opened the passenger side door and looked down about a 1000 ft drop off we were that close to the edge. Being on a bike was more safe by far.
Sailing thousands of miles off-shore has also had it moments.
Susan
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
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smoking weed everyday for the last 45 years,
oh, and driving when i could not see due to libations,
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Leggs
Sport climber
Tucson, AZ
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I moved to Dallas/Ft. Worth in the early '90s
:)
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Michelle
Social climber
1187 Hunterwasser
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called a Tongan a Samoan
Doh!
Joining the Army
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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I never started to do anything that I thought was unduly dangerous......after the fact some of the things I did turned out to be just that.
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steveA
Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
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Climbing related--too many to list here. I've definitely gone thru my nine lives.
Non-climbing related-- I had a hobby in my teens ( over 50 years ago), of making high explosives; (the nitrated type). I only had one accident, and was very lucky.
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limpingcrab
Trad climber
the middle of CA
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Climbing out of the sunroof at 120mph to see what terminal velocity felt like.
It felt like pooped pants.
Never mind, getting lost and sleeping alone on the street in a Ukrainian ghetto, woken up by white supremacist kicking me, taken to their house, lots of talking I couldn't understand and then they let me go. Thank goodness I was blonde with a shaved head like them.
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Rocky IV
Social climber
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driving 18+ hours straight by myself.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Messing with cell phone while driveing, unprotected sex BINTD...
Mixing drugs and alcohol BINTD, Falling off a motorcycle at 103 MPH, Lots of stuff working construction,a few times in the mountains, a few times on rock, a whole bunch of stuff Ice climbing....
Still feel that work is regularly more dangerous than climbing.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, ... oh my, i almost had my kids swimming in water that was TOO COLD still, and did not realize it, as, we had never been that close to 'just after winter melt' :O
we were just floating on the raft 'things' until i realized by testing it out to swimm that it was TOOOOO DANGEROUS... :O
thanks to god, for 'gut felt' mommy wisdom... whewwwwww...
then, the other 'runner up' would have to be taking some newer and different medication for a bad laryngitis thing that has been causing me to 'choke' at night... apparently he thought it was all in my mind, and that i was just scared to sleep... i found it later it was just some kind of tranquiler stuff, :O --i think it would have killed me, if i kept listening to him...
i just quite taking it, and that nearly made it worse, :O as your body gets
'addicted to it' in just a few days, :O
i just waited it out, later and got well... was a scary time... there sadly, are many doctors in south texas, that treat woman and do NOT take them seriously, ESPECIALLY the ones from poorer families, that are Mexican...
they kept telling my daughter-in-law that there was nothing wrong with her and that she just was worrying too much, but--
she HAD A SERIOUS GALL STONE situation and nearly died, getting there just in time AFTER you tried to find out what was wrong, on her own by the internet, and SHE DID... it was just a few weeks ALMOST too late, :(
they believed her THAT time...
well, that's it, unless we make it a three-way tie and i add this:
driving in winter when it is full of snow and ice... but, sometimes as we all know, we have to do it...
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kennyt
climber
Woodfords,California
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posting on moosedrools boob thread
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kennyt
climber
Woodfords,California
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Oh yeah, the boobs are a close second though.
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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There's a difference between the most dangerous thing that I've ever done, and something that I've done that scared me the most.
Free-soloing was probably the most dangerous thing that I've ever done, but class 5 whitewater kayaking scared me a lot more.
There's also a difference between the most dangerous thing that I've done voluntarily, and the most dangerous thing that I've ever done under duress.
The question in the OP is a bit vague.
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michaeld
Sport climber
Sacramento
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Most dangerous thing I've done-
Learning to drive stick on Salmon Falls road at midnight when I was 18 with a couple of friends in their cars. I had just bought a CRX and stripped the interior, put a strut bar in it, and somehow made my way up Highway 50, grinding my clutch and stalling, to Salmon Falls road.
I only spun out twice. :)
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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Most dangerous thing I've ever done:
Descended the North Dome gully in complete darkness without a headlamp with a haul bag on my back.
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Ricky D
Trad climber
Sierra Westside
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I backtalked my Momma once.
Only once.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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One of my closest calls ever was white water Kayaking. SCARY stuff!
I routinly TR directly through metlouis rap hangers or quick links or rings for one reason or annother. They are my anchors. I bought em, I placed them and most likly I will be the guy who has to replace them.. I try not to do it with other folks anchors but would not lose too much sleep if I did.
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hooblie
climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
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hitchin'/beggin' drunks for mercy, eye to eye from the backseat @140km/hr
on foggy hard glazed snowpack, south bound four lane outta edmondton
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SteveW
Trad climber
The state of confusion
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Like Paul said, gettin' on the Taco stand!
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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Getting a full time "career" job.
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neebee
Social climber
calif/texas
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hey there say, hankster, check your email..
:)
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wilbeer
Mountain climber
honeoye falls,ny.greeneck alleghenys
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SLR,When i came down to WV some years ago,with Jim,that experience of Squirt boating still gives me nightmares.I thought I was a competent kayaker ,yet never squirtboated.Then being in Banos "spare" pry on ,pry off squirt boat,never having seen the Gauley River, I was shaken.
I wake up in the middle of the night remembering,seeing, the surface of the river,stuck in an undertow 7 - 10 feet down,knowing there was a swim and you die rapid just around the corner.Literally.
I remember trying to paddle to the surface,rolling yet still well underwater,there is no air volume in a squirtboat.No floatation
Then narrowly escaping that cast to get to the surface for air ,let alone retrieving the boat and paddle and swimming to a rugged shoreline that was not completely safe.
That was a very dangerous thing to do.
I returned 2 years later to run that river,in Plastic.But that vision haunts.
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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I moved to Dallas/Ft. Worth in the early '90s
:)
Now that is funny!
edit: I moved to Kansas in 1979. Beat that!
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Charlie D.
Trad climber
Western Slope, Tahoe Sierra
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Being a teenager in the 60's running around LA and starting to climb at the same time. I'm convinced I must have had a guardian angel, my goodness the things we did....part humor, part tragedy all true.
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Leggs
Sport climber
Tucson, AZ
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I moved to Kansas in 1979. Beat that!
You win ... hands down.
:)
Edit: I'm a CA girl so moving to DFW was a shock. After two years, I was OUT OF THERE. (And I insist my son simply say he was born in Tucson and not Texas.)
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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Probably a bunch of moments while rock climbing, where screwing up for a quarter of a second would end it. That's the usual stuff of most people around here, but doesn't make for as good of stories unless lots of details filled in.
Boogie boarded by myself in burly winter storm waves at sunset. Dropped into a double-up set, pulled into a huge dark close-out tube, whipped around, driven deep in the water and smashed my face on the bottom, blood spattering everywhere by the time I popped up on the surface. If I had been knocked out, I would probably be dead. Nobody around to grab me.
REALLY the most dangerous thing I ever did, was reaching this philosophical decision after breaking up with my college girlfriend: "any two people can have a happy relationship and make a life together if they just are committed and try hard enough." That dangerous thinking led to a decade-long difficult marriage with a person who was not a good fit for me, and the last 5 years of emotional turmoil figuring out how to stay connected to my kids in the aftermath of that mess with a person who is ambivalent about my parenting role at best, and quite possibly spiteful and vengeful and vindictive much of the time.
I'm very happy with my life right now, but some baggage acquired while figuring out life just stays with you a long time.
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paganmonkeyboy
climber
mars...it's near nevada...
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smoking cigarettes - they damn near killed me at 40...
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pud
climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
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Crawling around inside if this thing for an hour looking for a short circuit ranks up there in my top 5.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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Norwegian
Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
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i just forced 10c moves
above thin gear that was
backed by an a3 anchor.
of course i equalized everything with nothing,
so zin was hovering about.
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Norwegian
Trad climber
dancin on the tip of god's middle finger
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boobs are dangerous around here.
i've done them.
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Leggs
Sport climber
Tucson, AZ
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Leggs, deleted due to being considered for something currently.
Sullly ... I got ya! (you go girl!)
;)
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Anxious Melancholy
Mountain climber
Between the Depths of Despair & Heights of Folly
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On a dark desert highway
Cool wind in our hair
The three of us cramned in the front seat
On a Toyota dare.
A voice in the distance said
Canjon de Tajo was sweet
But boy you better take care
This narrow two lane will bring you dispair
Welcome to the on comming bus passing bus
On the crest of a hill
Rushing to a head on collision
Or a shoulder of nill
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Wayno
Big Wall climber
Seattle, WA
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I'm thinking of a solo scuba dive off some rocks on the Big Sur coast. Scary and strangely beautiful, but I'm here to talk about it. Quite a different sense of fear than any climbing I have done.
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snowhazed
Trad climber
Oaksterdam, CA
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I spent an entire winter snowboarding serious backcountry avalanche terrain in Chile (The Santa Theresita Ridge)- with no probe, no shovel, no beacon, (no training in any of those things anyways), no health insurance, no helmet, and often times alone
it was rad
and i was lucky
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Delhi Dog
climber
Good Question...
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worked for the CIA
butt I can't tell you anymore
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Chaz
Trad climber
greater Boss Angeles area
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Tending bar for a living.
In over 19 years tending bar in less than genteel joints, I've been in more violent fights than I can count ( I consider a fight to be violent when at least one participant goes to the hospital ).
I retired undefeated!
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10b4me
Ice climber
Soon 2B in Arizona
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Dangerous, scared shitless, or just plain stupid?
got caught in a riptide when I was a wee lad(that was scary, and probably dangerous)
some of the mountain bike trails I've ridden are dangerous, especially if you lean the wrong way.
I lead a route a few years ago that was dangerous, but was too scared to think about it.
Actually, the most dangerous situation I've ever been in was at Rustys bar, in Bishop.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 5, 2013 - 02:34pm PT
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In retrospect, the most dangerous things I've ever done involved accepting rides from sketchballs while hitchhiking in the states, or suspect 'taxi' rides in Central America. Close calls.
I've willingly put myself in danger skiing steep lines and climbing, been hurt badly doing both. But, the human element is by far the most dangerous.
I'm one lucky son of a gun, knock on wood.
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WyoRockMan
climber
Flank of the Big Horns
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I thought about leaving a post on Mountain Project asking for my nut, hank of webbing and a sentimental non-locking biner to be returned in exchange for woo woo vibes and beer.
Had to back off as I don't want Locker to kick my ass.
Close one.
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goatboy smellz
climber
Nederland-GulfBreeze
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snowhazed
I spent an entire winter snowboarding serious backcountry avalanche terrain in Chile (The Santa Theresita Ridge)- with no probe, no shovel, no beacon, (no training in any of those things anyways), no health insurance, no helmet, and often times alone
it was rad
and i was lucky
That's okay it's the southern hemisphere so avalanches run uphill.
For me it was working as a bike messenger for 4 years in NYC, close calls with death on a daily basis, been hit by cars at speed 5 times but only bleeding enough to go to the ER 3 times. Fun times.
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Gunkie
Trad climber
East Coast US
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While in college, ran the Philadelphia subway tracks between stations. Could have died very easily and stupidly.
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Fat Dad
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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I was going to say it was soloing Snake Dike, never having done the route, without a route description or topo, but then I remembered all the stupid things I did in college, the biggest of which was getting a ride home from a really drunk friend on his motorcycle. I look back on that and cringe.
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WBraun
climber
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Most dangerous ......?
Hanging out on this planet .......
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sween345
climber
back east
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Tending bar and dealing the poker game in an illicit after hours joint in Brooklyn in the mid 80's, right when the price of the Peruvian Marching Powder bottomed out. Sometimes it seemed like every sewer in Flatbush emptied at the front door.
Commuting into the city during rush hours can be a death wish, but it's all good once I'm on the job.
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The Larry
climber
Moab, UT
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...oh and delivering Pizzas in North St Louis.
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elcap-pics
Big Wall climber
Crestline CA
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Attended church as a child.... imagine if I grew up actually believing all that crap!!!
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bhilden
Trad climber
Mountain View, CA
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Posting something on SuperTopo!
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Floorabove
climber
The Gunks y'all
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Hard to say. My short list:
Went upstairs at a house fire to search, before water was being applied on the fire in the kitchen. Probably knew I shouldn't, but was young and thought I had something to prove.
F*#ked up the peel out of an eddy above some benign Class 4 drop,flipped, and pinned.
Went through the ice on brand new XC skies. The brand new part being significant in that it was the very first time I had clipped into the NNN style bindings. Very tough time figuring out the release in the water, clinging to the ice.
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zBrown
Ice climber
Brujo de La Playa
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Use the internet.
US and UK spy agencies defeat privacy and security on the internet
• NSA and GCHQ unlock encryption used to protect emails, banking and medical records
• $250m-a-year US program works covertly with tech companies to insert weaknesses into products
• Security experts say programs 'undermine the fabric of the internet'
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/05/nsa-gchq-encryption-codes-security
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lars johansen
Trad climber
West Marin, CA
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playing with firearms while intoxicated
lars
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martygarrison
Trad climber
Washington DC
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Maybe walking the favelas of Medellin, Colombia. Or maybe taking a head first fall off of uncle fanny when I was 15, ripping almost all the pro that I had put it, stopping head down three feet from the ground. Yep that last one I guess.
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Jumped out of an airplane.
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Crackslayer
Trad climber
Eldo
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Climbing = ice climbing in the black canyon
Non-climbing = Checking bull pins for mosquitos. Also, rolling my car 300+ feet off of highway 50 in the middle of the night.
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handsome B
Gym climber
SL,UT
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Do I have to pick just one?
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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Lots for me too, the first 3 that come to mind.
1. Going through a "checkpoint" manned by self appointed guerillas twice a day in Entebbe Uganda in 1980. They'd make us get out of the car, AK-47's to our heads and check our "papers". Only thing that saved us is that we were working for the government, and they were scared of the government!
2. 19 yrs old, driving home drunk from a 3.2 bar on top of Lookout Mtn called Sams (Golden, Co), down Lariat Trail.
3. Hitting on a local's girlfriend at 3:00 in the morning at a small bar in Nevada that was full of patrons from the local Paiute reservation.
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GhoulweJ
Trad climber
El Dorado Hills, CA
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Got married....
Then divorced....
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The Larry
climber
Moab, UT
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The Beerolympics is perdy dangerous.
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TradEddie
Trad climber
Philadelphia, PA
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The list is endless and I expect that many here had very similar experiences with alcohol/cars/bikes/guns/fire/explosives and any combination of the above that I somehow survived, but looking back, my closest calls never even crossed my mind as dangerous at the time. Although I grew up in Ireland, events in Northern Ireland were hundreds of miles away, normally as irrelevant to my life as events in the middle east - except when they weren't: As impoverished students, we couldn't afford clay pigeons or other targets to shoot, so one afternoon we went to an abandoned coal mine for some redneck shooting fun. Two days later, police find that the IRA was using that mine to practice with a belt-fed Russian 50cal they'd got from Ghadaffi.
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Lambone
Big Wall climber
Ashland, Or
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it's probably a toss up between jugging some old ass ratty fixed lines anchored to loose pins on Ama Dablam...
or...
The East Ledges descent in the dark with a huge load super haggard.
or...
Driving 9hrs home after a Leaning Tower weekend warrior push. 3 days with basically no sleep. Woke up driving in oncoming traffic....luckily it was 2am and the road was empty.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 6, 2013 - 01:37pm PT
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Bombing longboard hills on a street deck is right up there for me as well. I had big soft wheels and high derometer bushings, so it was a sweet ride.
It's the other people that were the problem.
My buddy was following me in my car, he said I was well over 40mph when the a-hole heading up the hill decided to swerve into my lane and force me off the road. Obviously no helmet or pads.
Could've bit the big one right there. I got off easy with a concussion, dislocated shoulder, sand dollar sized chunk of scalp missing, all the thick meat on my palm missing, broken ankle, and scars from knee to shoulder on my right side.
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mcreel
climber
Barcelona
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I've done a number of stupid and dangerous things, some of them illegal (long ago and all in good fun, PRISM), but the most dangerous was very nearly rapping off a rope into space.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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C'mon, the OP said 'dangerous', not stoopid. That's why I got nuthin'.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 6, 2013 - 02:00pm PT
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True.
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Prezwoodz
climber
Anchorage
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I'd like to submit this one for my friend John. I'm not sure what my most dangerous is but I've always ranked this as one of his. This is a baby rattlesnake, quite alive and healthy.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Prez, that wouldn't be very dangerous if he wasn't so stoopid as to be
holding it that far back on the neck.
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HighTraverse
Trad climber
Bay Area
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Three votes for venturing forth on SuperTaco
falling asleep on a motorcycle after 60 plus straight hours of work
Things I outta knowed better but did anyways
30 hours motorcycle riding without sleep….until I fell asleep in the saddle. AmAZING how fast you can wake up when it means life or death. Didn't crash.
Riding my motorcycle from Salt Lick City to Boulder at the end of October…over US 40...in the middle of the night, on icy roads. My buddy crashed twice (at low speed fortunately). But hey, anything to keep a date with some coeds!
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ncskains
Ice climber
Alaska
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My second marriage was A5+... I lost my career, my business and my sanity..
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boston
Trad climber
squamish bc
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My job. Im a professional driver in Squamish
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 7, 2013 - 11:02pm PT
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I've had a death threat uttered to me and there is a bounty on my head in a province of Panama.
Long story short, don't ever let a British drug smugglers wife seduce you, ever.
Nothing but trouble, and dangerous.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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I think we need a trip report on the seduction by the wife of British drug smuggler! You came out alive, there's gotta be a story!
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 8, 2013 - 10:15am PT
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I'll let you know how it all works out, it's a story that's still unfolding.
Luckily, he's on the lam and she's from Colombia, so they are both personas non grata in the US.
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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mess with my cellphone while driveing. not glamerous but killed 5 people within 12 miles of my house this summer.
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