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Sierra Ledge Rat
Mountain climber
Old and Broken Down in Appalachia
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Topic Author's Original Post - Jul 1, 2014 - 01:12pm PT
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I was thinking of the thread Ground-Up
Who has taken a grounder?
I was free-soloing on Mt Evans in Colorado, and I had climbed a tricky section (5.7?) of face climbing that I did not think that I could down-climb. But I had to back off about 100 feet from the top due to verglass.
I was almost back down when I took a grounder, busted my ankle. I wrapped my rain jacket around my knee for a pad and crawled back to my car.
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wilbeer
Mountain climber
Terence Wilson greeneck alleghenys,ny,
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So.....You are not really ok yet? Are you SLR?.........LOL...
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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Working on an FA had gear rip and I touched down with rope stretch. I somehow got sideways mid fall and my hip just barely touched the ledgeand i bounced up like a bunge jump. had i hit feet first might have broke something? Worst thing was I had to think about going back up and hand drilling a bolt from a hook in the same spot that i had just decked from for a whole week... talk about iceing the driller:)
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apogee
climber
Technically expert, safe belayer, can lead if easy
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Took a relatively short ground fall early on in my leading days at Suicide, on Cat's Meow...thin pro at the start, sketched off and grabbed the draw, popping the piece. Hit the ground and rolled backward onto an unhelmeted head. Nothing more than a bruised head & ego....shook it off, and sent it a little bit later (humbled).
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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no discussion of awful grounders would be complete without Bill Buckner's in the 1986 World Series. He went on to commit suicide, they say due in large part to that grounder.
[Click to View YouTube Video]
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snarky
climber
ventuna
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Suicide? News to him...
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labrat
Trad climber
Auburn, CA
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As hinted above. Bill Buckner's alive and well.
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Jon Beck
Trad climber
Oceanside
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Suicide? News to him...
you are correct, news of his demise is premature, I really need to fact check my stories!
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coolrockclimberguy69
climber
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His err was more a statement on the futile stupidity of obsessive sports fans more than anything.
edit: I've never decked on a route, only bouldering :)
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RyanD
climber
Squamish
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I took one warming up on a route I've done 20 times & never fallen on. There was a fixed pin at the downward facing flake at the crux which was strangely absent that day. I placed a few pieces and boggled the sequence, starting to get flash pumped I decided to jump. Next thing I knew I was laying 30' on the ledge under the route in the only patch of snow around. When the piton got removed the flake became expanding, I think the same thing happened to someone else shortly after with a potentially worse outcome because the whole flake is now missing from the wall.
I was so startled I climbed back up & cleaned my gear & down climbed back to the ground, went and top roped some stuff. Super lucky.
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
extraordinaire
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Every fall in bouldering results in a ground fall. (written before the advent of crashpads)
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Quin the Konehead took a legendary 1500 footer off Monte Cristo Pk (IIRCC)
in the Cascades and walked away. The Quin Konehead Pre-Memorial Route,
aka The Kone, on Three O'Clock Rock in Darrington was named in his honor.
Happily, he proved us all wrong and his demise was pre-maturely expected,
if not immaturely, due to the fact that he quit climbing.
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Magic Ed
Trad climber
Nuevo Leon, Mexico
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I took a thirty-footer once and the rope caught me but with the rope stretch I landed standing on the ground. Everything would have been OK except I wasn't wearing a harness and the rope tied around my waist bruised my ribs pretty good.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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I cratered twice being lowered-off on 2 separate occassions, both were Noobs that were apparently awesome in the gym but couldn't execute in the field. Both were about 25', one being much more crazy than the other. Basically just taking the hands off the rope by the belay. No scratches on me, thank God.
3rd time, after leading a route and trailing a line, I rigged my route for a TR and set up another route nearby with the other line. I lowered off with the wrong line tied in and fell backwards immediately when weighting the line. Fell about 15 feet, spun around back and rolled sideways along the face. The only reason I stopped from decking was the rope kinked when it ran through the anchor. The landing would have totally sucked (death). And yeah, I thanked God for that one.
Just this last weekend apparently someone hadn't learned from past idiocy. I was trailing a rope on lead, again. I untie my tie-in and feed the rope through the anchor and throw it down. I walk over and set up the other TR anchor, grab my second rope and clip it to the master point. Then, again, I call to be lowered without CHECKING MY SH#T!!!
Half way down I notice my harness is pulling to one side and I look over. I'M LOWERING OFF A FUKING GEAR-LOOP that was trailing the second line!!!
I grabbed the main line on the rest of the ride down, taking pressure off the gear loop.
I DO INDEED count my blessings.
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ECF
Big Wall climber
So Far East I might as well be dead
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Trying out my new ice tools, I took a 30 footer out of my neighbor's giant pine tree.
I hobbled home with a badly sprained ankle, but the expensive looking topiary bush I landed on, did not survive.
As I joked at the time, "Thank Yew!"
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phylp
Trad climber
Millbrae, CA
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I've taken two, both on sport climbs.
The first one when a hold popped from my right hand as I was reaching for a hold with my left handbefore I reached the first bolt. When you're on a steeper than vertical route and you have no hands, you're excellent footwork doesn't do anything to keep you on the rock!
The second when I fell on a cruxy section before the first clip.
Both resulted in significant injuries. I bought a stick clip after the second one and I use it regularly now.
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jgill
Boulder climber
Colorado
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I don't know how many times I jumped off boulders fifty years ago - many, many years before crashpads. My back will testify.
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bluering
Trad climber
Santa Clara, CA
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I took a thirty-footer once and the rope caught me but with the rope stretch I landed standing on the ground. Everything would have been OK except I wasn't wearing a harness and the rope tied around my waist bruised my ribs pretty good.
I think that's good for +5 Badassery pts. Total old-school too. Maybe another +5 Old School pts.
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limpingcrab
Trad climber
the middle of CA
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Never taken one but I was belaying someone this spring when he fell and the rope never went tight. His gear ripped and he landed on the ledge, maybe 15 ft below him but covered in boulders.
Couple friends and I got up there, lowered him and gave him a 35 minute piggy back ride back to the car and took him to the hospital for a messed up ankle.
Nothing yet, knock on wood!
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Anxious Melancholy
Mountain climber
Between the Depths of Despair & Heights of Folly
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Uhm, first time I was 14, ('71). I did have an "allowance" from my parents and was doing odd jobs for Grama and neighbors, but I could only buy ( and sneak) a hemp rope from the hardware store, order a couple of soft iron pins from REI and fabricated some chocks from hardware nuts and hacksawed scrap conduit.
Buddy and I were doing a short 2 pitch route and I was testing out "hanging belay" dynamics. He lead off on the second pitch and not only was I uncomfortable hanging from my single wrap swami, but the single pin I was tied into was flexing. Figured being clipped to the eye with half the pin blade exposed was the problem. So while still trying to belay my leading buddy I set one of the aforementioned conduit chocks, uncliped from the flexing pin, clipped the chock's sling, and began weighting it.
Next thing I knew I was flat on my back looking at a weird blue sky with circling stars.
Lucky it was a short climb, my buddy was clinging to the top, and in my innocent surprise I let the hip-belayed rope just slide through my hands ..,,
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