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Rhodo-Router

Gym climber
sawatch choss
Sep 4, 2013 - 04:15pm PT
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.
SCseagoat

Trad climber
Santa Cruz
Sep 4, 2013 - 04:16pm PT
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
Dr.Sprock

Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
Sep 4, 2013 - 04:26pm PT
smoking weed everyday for the last 45 years,

oh, and driving when i could not see due to libations,
Leggs

Sport climber
Tucson, AZ
Sep 4, 2013 - 04:36pm PT
I moved to Dallas/Ft. Worth in the early '90s




:)
Michelle

Social climber
1187 Hunterwasser
Sep 4, 2013 - 05:38pm PT
called a Tongan a Samoan

Doh!



Joining the Army
donini

Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
Sep 4, 2013 - 05:44pm PT
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.
steveA

Trad climber
Wolfeboro, NH
Sep 4, 2013 - 05:48pm PT
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.
limpingcrab

Trad climber
the middle of CA
Sep 4, 2013 - 05:53pm PT
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.
Rocky IV

Social climber
Sep 4, 2013 - 06:16pm PT
driving 18+ hours straight by myself.
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Sep 4, 2013 - 07:17pm PT
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.
neebee

Social climber
calif/texas
Sep 4, 2013 - 07:31pm PT
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...
kennyt

climber
Woodfords,California
Sep 4, 2013 - 07:33pm PT
posting on moosedrools boob thread
kennyt

climber
Woodfords,California
Sep 4, 2013 - 07:40pm PT
Oh yeah, the boobs are a close second though.
Sierra Ledge Rat

Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
Sep 4, 2013 - 07:51pm PT
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.
michaeld

Sport climber
Sacramento
Sep 4, 2013 - 07:57pm PT
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. :)
Sierra Ledge Rat

Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
Sep 4, 2013 - 08:25pm PT
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.
Ricky D

Trad climber
Sierra Westside
Sep 4, 2013 - 08:27pm PT
I backtalked my Momma once.

Only once.
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Sep 4, 2013 - 08:29pm PT
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.
hooblie

climber
from out where the anecdotes roam
Sep 4, 2013 - 08:41pm PT
hitchin'/beggin' drunks for mercy, eye to eye from the backseat @140km/hr
on foggy hard glazed snowpack, south bound four lane outta edmondton
SteveW

Trad climber
The state of confusion
Sep 4, 2013 - 09:27pm PT

Like Paul said, gettin' on the Taco stand!
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