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a friend of mine saw this, and asked it id heard anything about it ... surprisingly i havent ...  As a result I jumped on Finders Keepers, a 5.12c, to warm up. I did a good portion of the route, but the overhang was just too much for my lack of endurance. The rest of the afternoon was spent hanging out and doing the first half of a couple 12’s and 13’s. I went to check out the easiest route (11a) on one end of the crag. While I was looking at the climb I heard a sickening thud and immediately knew what had happened. I ran back over to see one of the guys I had been hanging out with all day, Landon, lying on his side with everyone standing around him. He had been trying a route and when he wasn’t going to be able to clip the second bolt began to down climb. He ended up falling from only five feet above the bolt but on impact the locking carabineer broke and he fell the entire 20 feet to the ground. He put on a brave face even though we all knew he probably had a broken arm and worse yet, he wouldn’t be able to climb for probably a month or more. After the slow process of getting him from lying down to sitting to standing, splinting and slinging his arm, and supporting his back we headed out. Over the next couple days of doctor’s appointments we found out he had some kind of issues with disks in his back, a sprained wrist, and had broken the tip of his elbow which required surgery to fix. Unfortunately Landon got very unlucky and is one of the few people to have a biner break and I know I speak for everyone who knows him saying I hope he gets better soon. climbtheglobe.com/2011/07/n… |
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Locker broken?????? |
Steve Williams wrote:Locker broken?????? Naw, he's just crazy, man!!!All sorts of fun like that was had of ST when the movie The Hurt Locker came out. :) |
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looks like a microfracture |
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Was that locker on a permadraw? There seems to be some corrosion on parts of it |
bearbreeder wrote:Over the next couple days of doctor’s appointments we found out he had some kind of issues with disks in his back, a sprained wrist, and had broken the tip of his elbow which required surgery to fix.Looks like an elbowfracture. |
