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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Original Post - Feb 4, 2011 - 11:17am PT
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Seeing Alpinista55's whipper count, I thought it might be interesting to kind of see a "close call" tally from you guys and gals.
Me:
1) Almost froze to death in a late season rain/snow storm near South Sister in Oregon when I was a teen. Luckily I had a warm dog in the lake/tent.
2) Can't go up, can't go down! First free solo in mountain boots above jagged boulders, Deschutes River...
3) 60 footer on the Pacific Ocean Wall.
4) Ice/rain/snow near the top of the North America Wall.
5) A week of storm, wind, falling ice hunkered down at The Molar on Mescalito.
6) Upside down 30 foot whipper, almost hit the ledge, new route, NM.
I've got a couple left, near as I can tell........
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pud
climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
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You mean so far this year?
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JoeSimo
Trad climber
New York
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1. Hit by a car biking back from school
2. Suffer heat stroke during martiala rts class, teacher and "friends" leave me on the floor in the corner and do nothing
3. 30 foot whipper at the Gunks
4. I ate Taco Bell once
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 4, 2011 - 11:51am PT
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You mean so far this year? HA!
Uhhh, actually I was thinking more of the big picture "high value" epics.
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 4, 2011 - 12:04pm PT
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"GUD" list Locker!
Uhhh, any involving climbing? Or are you just too honed on the stone and only manage to blow it in the rest of your life....HA!
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ontheedgeandscaredtodeath
Trad climber
San Francisco, Ca
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Massive whipper in Sedona- caught by a #6 wire in that white colored stuff.
Upside-down swing between two boulders- caught by a #4 wire!
Last nano-second duck away from basketball sized rock on Grand Teton
Storm on Mescalito
Lightining storm in Tetons
Standing on snow slope in Pakistan and heard/felt the "whummmp."
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Moof
Big Wall climber
Orygun
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More than I want my wife to ever know about.
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Ghost
climber
A long way from where I started
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Tami Sez: always carried a scared shitless demeanour when climbing so didn't stick my neck out looking for The Horror and avoided ( or at least tried to avoid ) choss heaps, dodgy belays, climbs that ended with fukked up raps & other FUBARed situations that might lead To Death.
Kind of forgot to avoid sticking your neck out that day on Yak Peak, didn't you? (Mrs. Knight's left crampon detached from her boot while soloing an ice step near the summit on the first winter ascent. It was fun to watch her hanging by one tool while trying to re-attach it. In a full-on blinding Force 8 gale. With a 3,000-foot fall as the option if re-attachment didn't work.)
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pud
climber
Sportbikeville & Yucca brevifolia
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The worst for 2010 was a speed wobble down the straight on my R1 at Willow Springs, 175mph+. Not quite sure why I'm here typing this after that one.
Otherwise, typical weekly streetbike insaneties.
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philo
Trad climber
Somewhere halfway over the rainbow
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11 or 12 (at least) but I hear 13 is a lucky number.
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 4, 2011 - 09:06pm PT
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Wow, speed wobble and gunpoint are out in front at the moment.
I was hoping for a few more climbing tales!
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the kid
Trad climber
fayetteville, wv
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3..................................
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Wack
climber
Dazevue
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Terminal velocity of a human is 117-125mph in random posture. On a big bore sportbike that's 3rd gear with 3 more to go. Still it's the yakker on the cell phone who turns left in front of you that is the real danger in riding.
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justthemaid
climber
Jim Henson's Basement
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Just one I that stands out, although I'm certain there were some close car crashes.
My first rappel... a certain (banned) individual sent me down a 70 meter rappel on a 60 meter rope... no knots tied in the end BTW.
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Survival:
I think I’m in trouble on the 9 lives theory!
There was the 1st grade classmate, who over-swung on a baseball pitch, staggered to one side, and caught me across the forehead.
Some say: I haven’t been right since: (knocked out, concussion, and many stitches).
#2 was multiple high school drinking related car crashes with my peers: with not a scratch.
#3 was passing the car that was turning left-------on the left------ at 90 MPH, during my college years.
#4-11: were learning to climb from books, then rock climbing, ice climbing, and climbing big mountains-1970-77.
(I will be conservative and use an average of only one “I couldofdied” incident per year.)
#12 1978-was a “two-for” on the Chouinard Route on Mt. Fay. Car-size boulder fall, and cornice collapse in a two-day mini-epic.
#13 1980-Rock fall on a new route on the Salmon River that would have converted me to “people-juice” ---if I had not moved 30 feet to one side, when my muse told me: I was about to get chopped.
#14 1994-Being forced off a snowy highway in Wyoming by a out of control car in my lane, and rolling my SUV end over end. I ended up upside down: hanging from the seat belt------totally fine. The car was "totaled."
#15 All too many ocean-swimming incidents, where I fight the current, and can't get back to shore. As a weak swimmer, who loves deep water swimming: I need to start carrying some cheating device.
These are just the high points!
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MisterE
Social climber
Bouncy Tiggerville
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It's officially 5:
1. Bouldering fall as installer for EP, 40' up and narrowly missed upside-down wooden floor impact.
2. First-time solo aid fall at Smith Rock, inches from broken back and major concussion.
3. Redheaded GF tried to kill us both during drive on windy road during break-up.
4. Crazy Alaskan captain tried to leave me in the surf after going overboard
5. Slipping climbing out of fish-hold and narrowly missing eminent fatal impact on elevated circulation pipes.
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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Topic Author's Reply - Feb 4, 2011 - 10:56pm PT
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NOW we're getting somewhere!
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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1. Run over by a truck on San Pablo Ave Berkeley. Crushed chest-long stay in Childrens Hospital.
2. Severe concussion playing football on paved play grounds.
3. Head on collision Boy Scout camping trip-Scoutmaster was the worlds worst driver.
4. 5oo ft fall on Arrowhead Arete approach, courtesy Art "The Move" Gran-hello Lewis Memorial Hospital.
5. Totaled VW Squareback on San Jose Freeway. Rearended by lady doing 50 mph.
6. Blasted in right calf with a 9mm hollow point, during a shoot out. Hello Straub Hospital in Honolulu for a long visit.
7. Arm wrestling Survival
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