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Scott McNamara
climber
Tucson, Arizona
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Heal and recover, John.
Teach us how to do it.
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jstan
climber
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We all want the best for Largo. Not a question.
Do we all want the best for ourselves?
If we do we might consider the possibility older bone breaks easily.
And once broken they heal less and less perfectly.
Listen to Darwin.
Once past the age one is reproducing. nature has already crossed you off her list.
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Jstan, didn't Picasso father a child when he was in his 80's?
It's not the years, babe. It's the mileage.
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StahlBro
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Man, this really sucks.
Heal up quick Largo!
Rob
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BG
Trad climber
JTree & Idyllwild
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JL,
Your life of climbing and writing has been an inspiration to all of us in the climbing community.
Wishing you a good and full recovery.
Heal up fast and well my friend.
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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I'd like to welcome Largo to the gimp-honored tradition of posting too much on Supertopo while injured.
I know you can't start quite yet but the curve of your posting frequency could be the trajectory of your recovery, increasing as you get out of trauma mode and decreasing as you get back on your feet again. Perhaps a perfect opportunity for a writing a work of literature.
My suggestion:
Larger than life tales from back in the Day
You know, stuff like that guy dating a curry chick whose mom was a curry executive but was forced to take a dump on her carpet on a newspaper just as her mom got home. Climbing stories too, as only you can tell them
Folks would love it, and it'd be more fun to write than a gear book. You can collect some whoppers from your friends and on supertopo as well so only the cream of the sh#t gets published
Wishing you magic
peace
Karl
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WBraun
climber
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Largo will not be posting any stupid nonsense here anytime soon.
You will not see him here at all.
He will go into deep transcendental state free from all duality.
He will float into the no thing (where ever that is) and disappear until fully healed.
Then he will awaken to expound stuff to us trapped in the "thing" world ( whatever the fuk that is).
Ho man ........
Quack
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Capt.
climber
some eastside hovel
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Werner-^^That is priceless!!^^
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Michelle
Trad climber
Toshi's Station, picking up power converters.
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Holy crap, is that an airplane crash fatty hanging out of his mouth in that first pic?
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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Do we all want the best for ourselves? If we do we might consider the possibility older bone breaks easily. And once broken they heal less and less perfectly. Listen to Darwin.
Being, as some of us are, past the age of reproduction (which is to say, given recent research, that reproduction may be possible but not advisable), we are also out of the range of natural selection. Those of us who have been fertile have already set our progeny in motion, hence our contribution to the survival or elimination of the species has already been made.
Our communal propensity to shred tendons, bones, and soft tissue, presently so ably represented by our friend Largo (may he recover fully and quickly), suggests we may have done the species little good, although we can always hope the genes that continually land us in the operating room have either not been passed on or else have mutated into something more socially and societally beneficial and less suited to depleting the remaining tatters of the medicaid budget.
All this means that we and our brittling bones are free from future Darwinian constraints, and can replace the potentially consequential reckless abandon of our youthful adventures with the inconsequential reckless abandon of old age, realizing, of course, that diminished capacities will challenge us to extract catastrophes from ever more mundane circumstances.
And so I say, pay Darwin no heed. Ex (cough, cough) celsior!
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Dick Erb
climber
June Lake, CA
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Hey John, hang in there. You've got a long road ahead. I've been on it over nine months now. It's not all bad and it gets better.
Thank you so much for all the inspired writing you have done. Even as you lie there doped up in bed you are inspiring people. Here's a paragraph of yours I love.
I first went to Yosemite Valley when I was seventeen years old, and continued to spend every summer there until I was twenty-five. The first thing I remember of the place was the Camp 4 parking lot, an oily acre crammed with the proudest medley of rust buckets imaginable. Among the really prime rigs was an ancient British step van that must have been parked on the street during the blitzkrieg; an old, dented, salt-pocked Cadillac, now a convertible thanks to a cutting torch; and a red VW van, broadsided, t-boned, rear- ended, and rolled, not a window in it, vice grips where the steering wheel should have been. Few of these ran without priming and a push start. There wasn't a treaded tire in the whole lot, and a live battery got passed back and forth like a gold brick. The license plates were from Canada, Colorado, California, New York -- most of these junkers having been babied down the road with little chance of ever reaching Yosemite, and no chance of ever leaving it.
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ionlyski
Trad climber
Kalispell, Montana
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John,
Did you not use at least three equalized and bomber pieces? A couple of extra SLCD's or nuts just may have been prudent, yeah?
Heal up friend and use it to get real fit; take it to a new level and give us a real comeback!
Arne
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Heal it up right John.
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CalicoJack
climber
CA
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Best wishes from one of the many who have never met you, but have benefited greatly from your words. Hope the path to a full recovery is fast!
Andy
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Brunosafari
Boulder climber
OR
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John, Ouch sympathies go to you reluctantly as it seems unbelievable what happened. Did the spotters fan out as usual? Pathetic! Nevertheless, this convalescence period will be a good time to practice your knots.
What is with all the demands for new copy but no mention of bucks? Don't waste your time writing. Your fans are never satisfied. And what would you write, "Diary of a mad Unicyclist?" "Will loan you a metolius hangboard that could mount over your bed. ooops you already have one! December=training! Speaking of training, I'd like to invite all the staff nurses to room Largo for a pajama party. Turn up the music and Heal Well, Friend! - Bruce
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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So for the time being he'll be a uniped on a unicycle?
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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What's unique to this thread, unlike a million other accident threads of ST, is that we have no real information on what happened so we can't go on saying what should have happened in hindsight, and blame various acts or people for the incident, only to be found wrong when the actual details some out.
Very sly, having this all so secret. I mean gyms are supposed to be idiot proof, but since we're confident Largo is not an Idiot, apparently the safety measure weren't designed to protect him
;-)
karl
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McHale's Navy
Trad climber
Panorama City, California & living in Seattle
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He outsmarted the safety measures.
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