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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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