Dont grab the quickdraw!

Or else...

MAN ALIVE!

Someone hear managed to get the quickdraw through his forearm doing that I recall. Remember that picture?

Stich wrote:Someone hear managed to get the quickdraw through his forearm doing that I recall. Remember that picture?

Stich, I expected better from you... someone *HERE

And yes, yes I do. I'd love to HEAR the backstory related to this photo. How was that much force generated?

That is a gnarly picture. I kinda like it.

Someone should tell him that he's doing it wrong.

There was a climber who hung out at the Gunks in the 70s and 80s who was missing most of an index finger. Rumor had it that he lost it by falling after he stuck it through the eye of a resident piton.

Grabbing a QuickDraw or a resident pin constitutes direct aid.

Stich wrote:Someone hear managed to get the quickdraw through his forearm doing that I recall. Remember that picture?

[sarcasm] Nah, somehow that gnarly fucking pic of the quickdraw piercing the dude through his goddamn funny bone didn't stick in my cranium. Totally humdrum and light. [/sarcasm]

Yikes. Super gnarls.

Ouch. Super glue will fix that. And a qualude.

20 kN wrote:Or else...

Let me guess...French Free?

Dylan Weldin wrote: Stich, I expected better from you... someone *HERE And yes, yes I do. I'd love to HEAR the backstory related to this photo. How was that much force generated?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avpFGlv7iw8

A fine arguement for the notchless biners. You know the ones like the petzls.

TWK wrote: Grabbing a QuickDraw or a resident pin constitutes direct aid.

If he dies of blood loss do we upgrade the route to A5?

Hamilton Kibbe wrote: If he dies of blood loss do we upgrade the route to A6?

Nah, if he hung there long enough to die of blood loss he totally had time to free the route, the route stays c3.

Chilling thought - did the rope catch him? Or did his hand?

It actually looks fake to me. Who would leave it in and tape the gate back so it didn't press on the hand? It would have been easier and less painful to take it out. The skin is also not held up where it supposedly runs underneath. I also suspect there would be more blood involved with such a deep puncture.

M Sprague wrote:It actually looks fake to me. Who would leave it in and tape the gate back so it didn't press on the hand? It would have been easier and less painful to take it out. The skin is also not held up where it supposedly runs underneath. I also suspect there would be more blood involved with such a deep puncture.

Everybody having had a first emergency response training!!!!!
do not ever take anything out of a bigger wound! cut as much as you can of the object and fix the rest as good as you can to the wounded body!!!!!!!!

it is not a fake, it is a photo taken after rescue!

wow!

the tape at the gate was put on to decrease the preasure of the biner at the wound!

M Sprague wrote:It actually looks fake to me. Who would leave it in and tape the gate back so it didn't press on the hand? It would have been easier and less painful to take it out. The skin is also not held up where it supposedly runs underneath. I also suspect there would be more blood involved with such a deep puncture.

Yeah really? Pretty much anyone who has had ANY type of basic first aid training knows not to pull something out of a wound like that. Take it to the hospital and have them do it, you are going to have to go to the ER to have it sutured anyway so might as well let them take it out as well. And obviously the tape was put on to keep the gate from pressing into the skin.... Sheesh a little scary, I would suggest you take a w-emt class before you injury a partner in the backcountry!