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slabbo
Trad climber
fort garland, colo
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Classy response largo--- heal up
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jogill
climber
Colorado
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When JB and JL came down to southern Colorado to visit me in the late 1970s and sat around the kitchen table, my wife later remarked "They were like young Greek Gods!"
Draw on that power, JL!
;>)
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happiegrrrl
Trad climber
www.climbaddictdesigns.com
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Nobody just gives money to a slush pot for people to spend on hot rods and lap dances or whatever.
So maybe that is still the meds talking but it seems that JL is saying something like "If I won the Lottery, the first things I'd spend it on..." hahahah
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Curt
climber
Gold Canyon, AZ
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So maybe that is still the meds talking but it seems that JL is saying something like "If I won the Lottery, the first things I'd spend it on..." hahahah
Besides, what's wrong with hot rods or lap dances?
Curt
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Brian
climber
California
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John,
I've been getting updates through Erin and others. Hope things continues to improve as fast as possible and as well as possible given the circumstances. Be sure to reach out if there is anything folks can do. Not sure if I should text you or email or what, as I'm not sure what you've got access to. Let me know if I can bring anything over (books, company, whatever).
Hope Dean's "Largofest" fundraiser happens anyway. Great excuse for a party. If you need the funds for bills, I'm sure legions would be willing to chip in; and if you don't, well, it's a good reason for a party when you are out of the hospital and on the mend.
Brian
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McP223
climber
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Dear fellow climbers. John Long requested that we make a brief statement regarding his accident that occurred on 11/29/12 at approximately 8:30pm. John wanted us to confirm that he fell due to an unfinished knot, and suffered a compound fracture to the lower left leg. The rest of the details of the accident are John’s to tell.
Here is a direct quote from John, “Thank you to the Rockreation staff and members for keeping it together and not panicking in the face of a very scary situation. I consider it my best moment when I saw the gravity of the situation and was somehow able to keep it together and receive the support of the Rockreation Staff.”
On behalf of the Rockreation community, we want to wish our friend a speedy recovery, and let him know that we love him and are sending him good energy.
Here is a link to his full statement:
https://www.facebook.com/RockreationLA
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covelocos
Trad climber
Nor Cal
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Smoke pot, check yer knot...
edit... both.
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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John wanted us to confirm that he fell due to an unfinished knot, and suffered a compound fracture to the lower left leg.
We might have to revoke his double-knott spy status
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MWq6L19eNo
Heal up bro, it happens, or almost happens to everybody
I led the crux pitch on the Good Book once, and the pitch afterwards without my harness doubled back. It started getting loose when I was underclinging that big flake and looked down to see .....
Peace
Karl
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vininja
Social climber
NJ
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Dec 10, 2012 - 06:58pm PT
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https://www.facebook.com/RockreationLA
Dear fellow climbers. John Long requested that we make a brief statement regarding his accident that occurred on 11/29/12 at approximately 8:30pm. John wanted us to confirm that he fell due to an unfinished knot, and suffered a compound fracture to the lower left leg. The rest of the details of the accident are John’s to tell.
Here is a direct quote from John, “Thank you to the Rockreation staff
and members for keeping it together and not panicking in the face of a very scary situation. I consider it my best moment when I saw the gravity of the situation and was somehow able to keep it together and receive the support of the Rockreation Staff.”
https://www.facebook.com/RockreationLA
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TwistedCrank
climber
Dingleberry Gulch, Ideeho
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Dec 10, 2012 - 07:01pm PT
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A case of "do as I say, not as I do"?
Happens to the best of us...
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dee ee
Mountain climber
citizen of planet Earth
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Dec 10, 2012 - 07:11pm PT
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I did that once at Josh.
I led "Sandbag" 10c (Real Hidden Valley)and got on top, sat down to belay Margy and noticed my knot in an unfinished state.
I was glad I made it!
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bvb
Social climber
flagstaff arizona
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Dec 10, 2012 - 07:23pm PT
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My close calls, bonehead manuevers, n00b-worthy clusterf*#ks, and profound errors in judgement are far too numerous to list. I've been fortunate to rack up no more than five or six months in the hospital over last 40 years due to climbing-related accidents. This does not include the four months I spent in a cast (1975) due to an ankle smasher I scored at Tahquitz in January.
There but by the grace, as they say.
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AP
Trad climber
Calgary
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Dec 10, 2012 - 07:49pm PT
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Another reminder that even the best of us can make mistakes.
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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Dec 11, 2012 - 12:10am PT
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I've done it too, not finishing the knot that is. Luckily I got away with it. Noticed it when I was clipping the first bolt on London Calling in Josh. By then you have a piece or two of gear in and you're setting up for the crux. As I pulled rope to clip the bolt I happened to look down and saw the unfinished knot. I held the crimp with one hand, finished the knot with the other, pulled the crux without thinking and then bailed and went hiking for the rest of the day. The fall would only have been fatal in a fluke, but serious injury on that rocky landing was assured. Lucky me.
Largo, Hoh Man!! Heal up well. How is the food there? You need good food. Reach out if it sucks, maybe we can put together something...
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covelocos
Trad climber
Nor Cal
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Dec 11, 2012 - 12:10am PT
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Oh, how the mighty have fallen...
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GDavis
Social climber
SOL CAL
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Dec 11, 2012 - 12:15am PT
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I decked from the last clip up under the roof at Solid Rock San Marcos. Went for the full on rope-in-mouth-double-grab-lunge-oh-shit and landed flat ass on my back.
Luckily I was 19 at the time, and bouncy. Those annoying as f*#k pebbles they have there really do disperse energy.
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Jim Pettigrew
Social climber
Crowley Lake, CA
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Dec 11, 2012 - 12:30am PT
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Get well John!
Compound fracture? Yikes!
Get well my friend!
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rgold
Trad climber
Poughkeepsie, NY
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Dec 11, 2012 - 01:00am PT
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Forget about unfinished knot, I left the ground without any knot, the rope just draped through my swami belt. Fortunately, the rope slipped away before I had any occasion to weight it. Unfortunately, I had to solo the rest of the route. Fortunately, I was able to do that.
I started leaning back on an anchor and realized, in the nick of time, that I wasn't clipped to it.
I once slipped on a pebble near the edge of No Escape Buttress on Mt. Moran and ended up on the edge with one leg hanging over.
On an extremely run-out climb, I arrived at easier ground although with a groundfall prospect. There was protection available, but the terrain was easy and I so no reason to bother, considering what I had just managed. But then at the last minute I decided to place a piece anyway. I took a step up from there, a foothold broke, and I fell two feet onto the piece I almost hadn't placed.
That's four death/dismemberment/paraplegia episodes avoided by dumb luck in going on 56 years, or an average of one every fourteen years. I've never repeated any of those dumb mistakes, which qualifies me for the title of "very experienced." Ha! I prefer that honorific to the rather less dignified "very lucky."
Climbing can be reasonably safe as long as you manage to pay attention to all the details. However, gravity never sleeps, and most of us do nod off from time to time.
Be careful, don't ever get into the superior frame of mind that it can't happen to you, and help out if you can when a comrade falls, remembering that it might well have been you.
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Jennie
Trad climber
Elk Creek, Idaho
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Dec 11, 2012 - 01:46am PT
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Hey Miss Jennie, if you Married -John Long, you would be ...
Jennie Long Long. or..Jennie Two Long...
Jennie Two Long might have more euphony with my wee bit of Indian Ancestry, Nita… ha-ha-ha.
Sorry I didn’t see your post until now. I don’t think Largo and I are related…I think all Longs descendent via Great Britain are posterity of a Norman knight named John DeLong who came with William the Conqueror in the eleventh century.
I read somewhere than John’s ancestry was primarily from Ireland, though.
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