Ambulance at Roadside

Post by **ems** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 4:32 pm

Drove past Roadside around 9 last night and saw an ambulance in the parking lot with its lights going. Does anyone know if this was a climbing related accident? If so I hope everyone is okay.

Post by **briceb13** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 4:46 pm

yeah i heard a guy broke his ankle while taking a belay

Post by **p0bray01** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 6:56 pm

broke his ankle while belaying? Wonder if he slammed into the wall when the leader fell....

Post by **krampus** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 7:30 pm

yeah, that sounds odd, I wonder if the grigri saved the climber....

Post by **l0wnsl0** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 7:42 pm

we were up there and talked to the guys. apparently he was cleaning ro shampo when he took some kinda nasty swing and hit one of those boulders at the bottom. his leg was in bad shape, we offered to help out, but there were like 10 guys at the bottom with a basket who told us we should take off

Post by **Andrew** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 9:27 pm

Not the first time. Kirker has a trick for preventing that

Post by KD » Sun Mar 23, 2008 10:11 pm

Andrew wrote:Not the first time. Kirker has a trick for preventing that

rap down

Post by **ElectricDisciple** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 10:22 pm

well said kd.

Post by **pkananen** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 11:43 pm

Almost saw someone mess up their leg doing the same thing once.

Post by **Saxman** » Sun Mar 23, 2008 11:49 pm

On a 12 and can't clean?