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nzclimba
Dec 22, 2002, 1:01 AM
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out my curious nature, im interested to hear what some of the worst injuries everyone out there has had. no matter whether it was out of plain stupidity or just because fate was against you that day! in other words, by accident.
for example, doing a top rope one time, i managed to get my thumb caught in the pully at the top, thus reducing my thumb into blood and bone! i still climbed after that even though my thumb was taped up and i wasnt able to use it. my climbing friends decided to affectionatly call that climb 'my right thumb'after that.
so my share moment of stupidity had its share of laughter after that, and i was called 'fingers'for some time.
now im back to being able to climb with all my phalanges intact
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no_limit
Dec 22, 2002, 1:08 AM
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My worst climbing injuries have been very minor. I have been lucky to escape with only cuts and pulled muscles, so far.
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hellbent
Dec 22, 2002, 3:33 AM
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Worst one I ever had was a thorny bush cut me across the face. Luckily I had my cool glasses on and my eyes were untouched. But I did look funny as hell for a while.
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w6jxm
Dec 22, 2002, 3:45 AM
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Minor rope burn on the back of my knee. Really sucked for a while.
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jt512
Dec 22, 2002, 3:50 AM
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A lisfranc fracture-dislocation (a serious foot injury).
-Jay
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jumpingrock
Dec 23, 2002, 6:44 AM
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My Heart was broken by a gril I met while climbing once...
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nzclimba
Dec 24, 2002, 10:12 PM
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i can relate to that. my heart was broken by my ex boyfriend who was a climber.
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thirdamigo
Dec 24, 2002, 10:28 PM
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Two sprained ankles after taking a 20' leader fall.
I was cueing up for the 4th pitch of a 700’ climb. At the 3rd belay I informed my partner I was going off route because the roof directly above us was calling my name. The route went just right of the roof, but just above the roof there appeared to be plenty of easy terrain to move back on route. The plan was to protect the roof moves and then run it out above until I got back on route. That would allow my inexperienced second to pull the pro at the roof and then take the easy traverse back right and around the roof.
After pulling the roof section, I found myself faced with a fingertips crack in a shallow, right facing dihedral. I immediately started liebacking the crack, and before I knew it my fingers slipped while, my feet held. I tumbled backwards over the roof I had just climbed, and after my first tumbling rotation, I landed on both feet on the steep slab below. I was 40' above the belay when I fell, and for a split second thought, I was going to end up in my belayer’s lap. All my pro held firm and the rope came taught, stopping me only inches away from smacking the back of my head on the rock. I had purposefully left my helmet below. My reasoning: It was only 5.8...two grades below my leading level for goodness sakes. That’s the last time I've ever left it behind.
Since the descent consisted of down climbing the backside, we had opted to leave the second rope in the pack with my helmet. Unable to rappel with one rope and my partner’s inability to lead, left us with no other option but for me to lead the last 200+ feet up and off.
During the fall I missed hitting my head 3 time...3 times I narrowly escaped endangering my partner’s life. No doubt, he was too new to climbing to get off the cliff by himself, let alone get us both down.
Dumb! Just a dumb mistake.
A lot was learned that day to say the least.
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coldclimb
Dec 24, 2002, 10:41 PM
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I broke a nail once.
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ubangie
Dec 24, 2002, 11:08 PM
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This one
Shattered my tiba in two places and broke my fibula in two places, There are three more screws on the plate that go out of the x-ray and a screw in my hip from where they took a bone graph...
I fell while climbing on Fairview Dome in Tuolumne back in Sept.
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thirdamigo
Dec 25, 2002, 3:29 AM
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ubangie,
That looks painfull!! You make me feel even more fortunate.
Bill
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milesdesbrie
Dec 25, 2002, 3:42 AM
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I dislocated a shoulder after slipping on a spinner hold at the gym. Truly annoying.
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wildtrail
Dec 26, 2002, 7:00 PM
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Fell on lead. Not a bad fall. Just about a 10ish footer. No helmet. Hit my head and knocked myself unconsious for about 30 seconds. Gave myself a pretty good concussion. Taught me that no matter the lead, ALWAYS wear a helmet.
Hell, always wearing one no matter what only prooves that the brain it's protecting is a smart one.
Steve
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djmeat
Dec 26, 2002, 7:38 PM
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In my first 3 months of climbing. I have managed to seriously irritate the membrane between the Radius and the Ulna in my left arm. No climbing for me for 2 weeks
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coclimber26
Dec 26, 2002, 8:27 PM
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Hurt ego
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coldclimb
Dec 26, 2002, 8:52 PM
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Actually, thinking back, I've had worse than a broken nail. I was buildering on the back of my school up to a small section of the roof in front of a huge window during a staff meeting to get a ball down. Got the ball unsighted except by several students, but I was in too much of a hurry to get down and jumped ten feet onto concrete, landing wrong and causing such pain in my foot that I could literally barely walk for several days. It hurt for over a month and a half, but wasn't broken according to the docs.
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greengecko
Dec 30, 2002, 4:26 AM
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I woudl have to say my worse injury was not while i was actually on the wall but while i was going to it. I was biking down a trail with my group of fellow climbers and lazy bums who just came one of them stop after a very long down hill right after a corner. Needless to say i did not see him until i hit him and then my bike fell over on my leg and the metall gear sliced strait into my leg leaving a 2 by 2 insh square hole in my leg which i lost some feeling in and i did not go climbing the rest of the summer nor caving, damn leg
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rosemom3
Jan 5, 2003, 6:47 AM
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Took a 10 to 15 ft lead fall at Redrocks on Magic Bus Wall 5.9+. Tried to grab the quick draw as I went and ended up twisted, hit my foot on a ledge on the way down, flipped me upside down, and gave me a third degree sprain in my ankle. All I could think as I was falling was sh.. I left my helmet by my pack. Big thank you to Noah Wheatley, climber and Las Vegas fireman who carried me piggy back back to my car. I have a renewed faith in firemen - boy was he strong. Just got off the crutches after 9 days, will be limping according to docs for up to 6 weeks. Miss climbing terribly! Note to self always wear a helmet on lead!
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canrocker
Jan 5, 2003, 7:01 AM
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Running jump off a ledge... 15-20 ft drop, landed hard, knees crumpled, all shock straight to soles of my feet. They were purple, black, and sore as hell for over a month.
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blindslap
Jan 5, 2003, 7:22 AM
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Fell once in big cotonwood and somehow got about a foot of uzeing rope burn behind my knee. Took two weeks for it to heal because every time i bent my knee it would crack open again.
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cass
Jan 5, 2003, 12:33 PM
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nothing major yet...TG
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stann
Jan 19, 2003, 7:46 PM
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eina boet. me? just fingers and muscles.
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mr_phelps
Jan 19, 2003, 8:11 PM
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No serious injuries, just normal irritation associated with too much climbing, and not enough rest.
Right now, it's my elbow and it' hurts like a bitch, last month it was my wrist. So I am going to be wise and take a couple of weeks off.
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