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Ambulance at Roadside
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 4:32 pm
by ems
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.
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 4:46 pm
by briceb13
yeah i heard a guy broke his ankle while taking a belay
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 6:56 pm
by p0bray01
broke his ankle while belaying? Wonder if he slammed into the wall when the leader fell....
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 7:30 pm
by krampus
yeah, that sounds odd, I wonder if the grigri saved the climber....
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 7:42 pm
by l0wnsl0
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
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 9:27 pm
by Andrew
Not the first time. Kirker has a trick for preventing that
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 10:11 pm
by KD
Andrew wrote:Not the first time. Kirker has a trick for preventing that
rap down
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 10:22 pm
by ElectricDisciple
well said kd.
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 11:43 pm
by pkananen
Almost saw someone mess up their leg doing the same thing once.
Posted: Sun Mar 23, 2008 11:49 pm
by Saxman
On a 12 and can't clean?