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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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I just remembered a traumatic one. My house had a brick wall in the bedroom - pretty damn
convenient for a sexy soirée, n'est ce pas? Well, this particular evening I was only entertaining
myself, so to speak. I had my feet up by my hands, preparing for the big dyno, when the hold
both my hands were on broke. I had not cleared the LZ and my tush came down the 3 feet
onto an empty vase about 5" in diameter. Yeah, that hurt bad and I think my sciatica dates
from that lonely night.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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jeesh Reilly, getting it on with a vase is kinda 1970, don't ya think?
YOUCH!
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thebravecowboy
climber
in the face of the fury of the funk
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F*#k sportclimbing.
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Don Paul
Big Wall climber
Aurora Colorado
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I was just hiking up there on Mt Evans around the Chicago Lakes, think this is one of the boulder fields. That's definitely a long way back if you're injured.
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Gunkie
Trad climber
East Coast US
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Fell flat on my back from 10 feet when climbing a tree in my back yard when I was ~10 years old.
I was using a dog chain and a ground anchor to climb like 'real climbers.' I threw the big corkscrew with the chain attached into some tree limbs, then 'batmanned' up the chain until I could establish myself for the next throw and climb section. I was amazed that it worked on the first pitch. So, of course, I had to do it again from my perch in the notch of a big apple tree. After a couple of tries, and getting knocked in the head on one throw, the big corkscrew stuck in something.
I gave it the good old bounce test before all of you hard core aid climbers even knew what that was. It didn't pop out, so I swung out onto the chain, took one big reach of chain.... and I was weightless. Then I couldn't breath at all, I couldn't talk or yell, and I laying on the ground on top of some big ass apple tree roots that don't break falls too well.
I recovered without medical intervention. But I do remember not being able to throw a baseball in little league for a while after that incident. And that's when I began playing 1st base. And continued playing 1st base, mostly, through HS ball.
...Oh I have another one. This has to do with trying to get an umbrella off a roof.
Gotta work now.
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Gary
Social climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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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.
What is true is that he did attempt suicide. A few years after that series he stepped in front of a bus....
but it went between his legs.
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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Caught a grounding climber in my arms once. Pro ripped from about 20' up. Not a fun time.
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ydpl8s
Trad climber
Santa Monica, California
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I'm going to have to take the walk of shame for this one.
I was leading the 3rd pitch of Wind Ridge with a 1st time climber in tow. As I moved up off of the butt rest flake, at the start of the 3rd pitch, to grab the bucket above (5.7), said bucket was full of wasps! I am allergic and so I started slapping wildly and popped right off and somehow rotated and landed on the belay ledge next to my frightened partner, my left bun hitting a rock (leaving huge bruise) and my right bun on top of my foot/ankle. We then proceeded to traverse left into the talus filled gully and made the painful decent through the talus with my sprained ankle (swollen up like a balloon) and quickly stiffening gluteus maximus.
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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Caught a grounding climber in my arms once.
I also highly recommend that, especially if you, the belayer, do not have
an anchor. It really ups your incentive for sticking the tackle.
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snowhazed
Trad climber
Oaksterdam, CA
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Stuck the landing on a 12 foot fall before first clip in 2011, somehow managed to land in between small sharp rocks and just get a bruised heel. So psyched it didnt ruin the rest of my CO trip.
Got rope stretched onto the flake under Do or Fly while on TR way back in the day.....
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johntp
Trad climber
socal
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I also highly recommend that, especially if you, the belayer, do not have an anchor. It really ups your incentive for sticking the tackle.
ha ha! We were at the base of some thin climb right of the Pirate. He peeled, pro ripped, I caught. Good times. Well, maybe not so much...
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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What I tried to infer was that if I didn't nail him it would have gotten
a lot uglier for both of us as the ledge was only 4' wide. ;-)
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dagibbs
Trad climber
Ottawa, Ontario
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I've taken a couple as a kid -- tree limb breaking under me from 10-12 feet up one time. Another time, jumped off a garage roof into what I thought was a pile of soft now -- wasn't so soft -- knees came up under my chin, and I put two holes through my tongue with my teeth. Oops.
As a climber, though, only one (so far), and it was fairly short. Trad route with a hard start into easier climbing, popped off unexpectedly about 5 feet up and landed flat on my back on flat rock. Winded me, but no real damage. After recovering my breath, went back after it, putting in a piece to protect that bit of climbing.
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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May 22, 2017 - 10:27pm PT
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yeah those trees. a white pine. two. thirty feet up and eight years old. leapt between them, I did, and the boughs and the pine duffs, they were soft. I landed right.
I landed. right. more than that.
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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May 22, 2017 - 10:49pm PT
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thebravecowboy
climber
The Good Places
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May 22, 2017 - 10:53pm PT
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I hear you on the ropestretch+/-excellent belayer thing. it helped, the thick buttfats, on my day of biggest bedrock bedevilry. and the indomitable DP, he helped too, like a lot. I like Dave. He done good.
serendipity. we're glad to have you with us, NA.
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NutAgain!
Trad climber
South Pasadena, CA
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May 22, 2017 - 11:01pm PT
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I mostly can mention it in a detached way now, but every once in a while its good to let it sink in that every breath is a gift, and I really shouldn't get bent out of shape (ha, no pun intended) by anything! Fvck yeah life is good (sorry children, if you are reading this you have probably seen worse). And on that note I'm going to step away from the computer and broil some salmon with smoked paprika, coriander, pepper, dash of allspice, soy sauce, and sesame oil.
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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May 23, 2017 - 08:43am PT
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Smoked paprika....you have my interest, how do you smoke it?
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Cragar
climber
MSLA - MT
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May 23, 2017 - 09:15am PT
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On one of my FAs at Burst Rock, North side...
Just finished bolting a little knobby 11- route and was going for the first lead. I got to the second bolt, pulled up the rope and popped off the micro knobs I was standing on. I landed completely on my side in the talus. I got away with a little bruising. The rocks were perfectly 'arranged' and I didn't hit my head or any joints; ok, maybe a couple ;^)...hehe. We called it Talus Food when I think it got another name in the guide. It is 150yds to the left of Mouse Trap, or what we called Feminine protection..
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originalpmac
Mountain climber
Anywhere I like
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May 23, 2017 - 11:48am PT
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Can anybody elaborate on the Quin the Conehead fall? I feel like I saw his helmet in a ranger office in the Cascades once
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