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TradEddie

Trad climber
Philadelphia, PA
Sep 6, 2013 - 01:05pm PT
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
Sep 6, 2013 - 01:18pm PT
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.
Brandon-

climber
The Granite State.
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 6, 2013 - 01:37pm PT
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.
mcreel

climber
Barcelona
Sep 6, 2013 - 01:53pm PT
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.
Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Sep 6, 2013 - 01:55pm PT
C'mon, the OP said 'dangerous', not stoopid. That's why I got nuthin'.
Brandon-

climber
The Granite State.
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 6, 2013 - 02:00pm PT
True.
Prezwoodz

climber
Anchorage
Sep 6, 2013 - 03:24pm PT
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.

Reilly

Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
Sep 6, 2013 - 05:02pm PT
Prez, that wouldn't be very dangerous if he wasn't so stoopid as to be
holding it that far back on the neck.
HighTraverse

Trad climber
Bay Area
Sep 6, 2013 - 07:15pm PT
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!
ncskains

Ice climber
Alaska
Sep 7, 2013 - 07:26pm PT
My second marriage was A5+... I lost my career, my business and my sanity..

boston

Trad climber
squamish bc
Sep 7, 2013 - 10:37pm PT
My job. Im a professional driver in Squamish
Brandon-

climber
The Granite State.
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 7, 2013 - 11:02pm PT
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.
Jaybro

Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
Sep 8, 2013 - 08:31am PT
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!
Brandon-

climber
The Granite State.
Topic Author's Reply - Sep 8, 2013 - 10:15am PT
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.
tradmanclimbs

Ice climber
Pomfert VT
Sep 8, 2013 - 11:00am PT
mess with my cellphone while driveing. not glamerous but killed 5 people within 12 miles of my house this summer.
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