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Nick Danger
Ice climber
Arvada, CO
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John M, I have only ever posted as Nick Danger, and have no idea who this Hankster individual is you speak of.
This thread started out about PTSD/PTSS, and trauma that did not result in PTSD/PTSS. Very thoughtful and informative posts when it was on topic, my heartfelt thanks to the many thoughtful posters.
I have no doubt that many of the folks who post regularly or only rarely on the Taco have led lives somewhat more interesting than the average urban dweller, and I suspect lives lived thusly are often filled with events that might be statistical outliers - mine certainly has.
Be well folks
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kunlun_shan
Mountain climber
SF, CA
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^ Nick D, thanks for your /confirmation that you are not Caylor. I do wish he was back, band also appreciate your posts.
Apologies to the OP for yet another OT post. Let's back to discussion of PTSD!
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Reilly
Mountain climber
The Other Monrovia- CA
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This little piggy came outta the bushes in S AZ and I thought "How cute!" Then I saw the hateful
look in her eyes. Then she came straight at me and I thought "There go my knees and/or my
privates!" She juked left about 8' from me. I'm gonna pack on my next trip down there.
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Q- Ball
Mountain climber
but to scared to climb them anymore
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 1, 2017 - 11:58am PT
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Reilly, awsome picture! Collared Peccary?
Time for me to blow your urban minds again...I was tracking a large herd of white lipped peccary in eastern HN and noticed jaguar tracks on top of the peccaries tracks. A few minutes
later, the peccary were 20 feet in front of me.
I know the jaguar was watching/thinking, god damn gringo here screwing up my hunt!
Oh... To keep you keyboard jockeys entertained...was just on the phone with Nat Geo film crew wanting to shoot footage of Lampyridae on my farm. I turned them down because the BBC has me booked to scout a separate shoot and I have to go on a dive job next week in the New River in West Virginia. Should be a simple few days of diving in clear water!
Also I got 40 acres of corn put in but the river has been to high to get the tractor across to an island I farm. Usually put in 20 acres of sunflowers, 6 of silver queen, and 5 of feed corn.
Trying to get a timber job finished, clear cutting about 60 acres mostly hardwoods, but been scouting some white pine a company is interested in.
Oh...while typing this my friend called and we were debating on when to complete a mussel survey on the Obed...then trying to figure out if 15,000 cfs is to much water for a different one on the Tennessee River.
Then an email just came in...it is some Hollywood film guy trying to become my friend so I will divulge locations of an undocumented city I found in Moskitia.
You know, just one of those days!
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Sands Motel , Las Vegas
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That's nothin...I drink my own piss out of a martini glass...
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John M
climber
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Sorry Nick. For some reason I thought that you were that nefarious Hankster. Welcome to the Taco.
Edit: On topic. There are a number of threads on PTSD on the taco. Some have been messed up as peoples accounts have been deleted, but there is still a lot of information and stories. Quit a few people on the Taco have experienced it. I highly recommend seeing a therapist who does EMDR.
As for lightning strikes. I believe Philo has been hit 3 times. He used to post here.
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Q- Ball
Mountain climber
but to scared to climb them anymore
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 1, 2017 - 02:41pm PT
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John m,
Thanks for all your advice. I think I got set off with people questioning my life story. I don't mind being called names, but to call me a liar about situations I am seeking help for makes me mad.
I never wish many of my memories on my worst enemies. The list people keep referencing is a very abbreviated version of what I could write.
Take care all, Qball
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Larry Nelson
Social climber
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Great topic, interesting posts.
Nick Danger posted:
I have no doubt that many of the folks who post regularly or only rarely on the Taco have led lives somewhat more interesting than the average urban dweller.
Spot on and a reason the Taco forum is so interesting...there's always someone with knowledge or experiences that far surpasses our own.
A couple days ago I was getting puffed up to post a reply, but today after reading a few of these posts, I'm not feeling so well endowed.
Q:
Good luck to ya mate. I've known many friends who have suffered PTSD, from varying experiences and with individual outcomes.
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blahblah
Gym climber
Boulder
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Is Q ball
or
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Q- Ball
Mountain climber
but to scared to climb them anymore
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 1, 2017 - 08:03pm PT
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Johnokner,
It happened in 2005, and near Laramie, not Lander. Sorry if I had typed that somewhere. When I was at UWYO we got to volunteer at the state vet lab for a class. I don't recall the details but got to help with a necropsy on a lion that came through! Pretty cool to see one up close when not fighting it!
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donini
Trad climber
Ouray, Colorado
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Ah....big cats, totally fascinated with them. I've seen mountain lions twice....once at Cochise's Stronghold and again by the San Miguel river in Colorado. I have run into Bobcats in California, Colorado, Arizona and Utah.
I've seen Snow Leopard tracks twice in the Karakoram and once in the Pamirs. I even went to the Buenos Aires Wildlife Refuge in Arizona in the off chance of spotting a rare borderland Jaguar.
As the climbing fires wane I'm thinking of going to the Pantanal in Brazil to spot Jaguars and the Russian Far East for Suberian Tigers.
I'll be back on the Biafo Glacier next year....damn, I'd love to see a Snow Leopard!
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GDavis
Social climber
SOL CAL
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4 years removed from being in a climbing fatality I'm starting to see things creep up. Hard to describe or articulate, but yeah. I'm here.
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Q- Ball
Mountain climber
but to scared to climb them anymore
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 2, 2017 - 01:33pm PT
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GDavis,
I hate hearing that. My phone is always on if you want to chat.
Most days I am fine, but every once in a while memories of all these statistically improbable things creep up on me. One memory is bush hogging a hill and the back tire and wheel sheared off somehow and ended up rolling the tractor down the hill and into the woods.
I was rattled but fine. Called up two neighbors to help get it out with there tractors. One of them has lost a leg and his father to a tractor accident, the other has been farming for 50 years. Both were scratching their heads saying," never seen this before". Ha! Story of my life!
Stay safe!
Qball
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rottingjohnny
Sport climber
Sands Motel , Las Vegas
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Q-ball...It's not too late to move into a bubble... Bubble Boi..
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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I have been lucky and blessed enough to see a Lynx twice. the first time I made eye contact. very cool!
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MikeL
Social climber
Southern Arizona
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Whilst sitting in contemplation at the side of our house at day break, one came up along side of me not 6 feet away, and never saw me. I hissed at him, and asked him what he was doing there. He immediately slunk down and backed up out of my vision and reappeared with his mate bounding off about 50 feet away. They’re a big house cat. Very cool to see them walking off like John Travolta, dancing and walking at the same time. Cats are the very essence of cool.
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Q- Ball
Mountain climber
but to scared to climb them anymore
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 2, 2017 - 11:23pm PT
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I am Confused how this became a cat thread?
Anyways...I will join.
I was up a canyon in southern Wyo in a wilderness area hunting for shed antlers at ice-out. Crossing the river is another story... Anyways I picked up maybe a dozen elk sheds. Got them strapped to my pack.
I decided to search the next ridge over. I post holed through snow and got to the ridge beat and tired. There was no snow on this ridge and picked up a match pair of muley antlers pretty quick.
Wandering around a corner a mountain lion is staring at me with dead elk/deer at its feet. I gauge the situation and remember the quota for lions had been reached last week.
I decided to fire one round in the air (just curious of the reaction )
After firing the lion jumped on a rock, another came out from behind a juniper and the "dead elk" lifted its head... It was was momma lion with two subadults.
I laugh about what they saw me as with antlers strapped all over my pack! Just backed away and called it a day!
Q
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tradmanclimbs
Ice climber
Pomfert VT
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the Lynx that i saw up close was huge. about the size of a german shepard it had the pointy ears and a fat stubby tail with a solid black ring and a white ring on it.
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Q- Ball
Mountain climber
but to scared to climb them anymore
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Topic Author's Reply - Jun 17, 2017 - 11:28am PT
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Exposure used to be my thing. Sitting on a ledge hundreds of feet up put a smile on my face. I am terrified of heights now or at least don't get joy during the moments.
Trying to get this back on topic, PTSD.
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