This is the third improper tie in - high fall at Momentum since June afaik. Not cool.

Holy fucking jumped-up Jesus.

Three pages for this. Matt, don't ever leave MP. I think a little bit of piss squirts out every time you trounce a trog with your vocab.

FIVE GOT-DAMN SECONDS TO CHECK A MUHFUHKIN KNOT?

sweet. Submitted By: Jake Jones on Feb 3, 2013

To the gallant aficionados of MP satire:
Thank you for your kindness and support. As deeply as I was wounded by the scathing criticism of a guy who registered yesterday under the brilliantly anonymous moniker of "RocksClimbing", I now feel it is my duty to carry on my storied tradition of pretentious douche toolery. I shall continue to contribute snarky admonitions of not only grammar and tense, but spelling and possessives as well. If you seek the answer to an implied query, and "beg the question"- watch out.
Consider this missive a harbinger of toungue-in-cheek serio-comic critiques yet to come- no one is safe, be they rope soloists, PAS inquisitors, or hipsters trying to find a pant tough enough to thrutch the West Chimney, yet ironic enough to wear to Liquor Mart for cases of PBR. (I recommend Dickies).

All clowning aside, sincere prayers and positive vibes to the injured climber. We are a diminutive tribe and love and care for any wounded warrior is amplified by individual sincerity and genuine concern. Jah bless you all!

^Exactly. Thats why I i agree with everyone else thats its comical climbers cant be bothered to double check eachother. Its not that I am not taking responsibility for my knot but if you and your partner both check it the chance of screwing up is alot less. Plus it takes 2 seconds. How lazy are you guys?

To all of those interested in what happened or in helping with my recovery as I have no insurance and am responsible for my injuries and surgery out of pocket feel free to check out or share my website:

www.giveforward.com/climbforcourage

where you can read my story, donate to my recovery, or leave me a hug

love and light
Amanda <--- the one who fell 45 feet and broke both legs at momentum climbing gym

me, my dog, and 2 broken legs Submitted By: handsndirt on Apr 7, 2013

Good luck with your recovery! That's got to be rough, but I'm sure you will get through it. Crazy to have your biggest whipper be a grounder!

Also, please pay no regard to the emotionally stunted tool bags who post their negative drivel here, I doubt they even know what they're saying.

Happy healing Amanda.

Let me get something straight though. I understand you are suing Momentum for this accident?

While I wish those who have suffered injuries a speedy and successful recovery I have to ask WTF are people thinking when participating in recreational activities that have risk of injury yet have no insurance. This latest accident is just one of many over the past few years where I have seen where someone has been injured seriously but had zero insurance and now have the nerve to set up an online fund set up so people can pay for their care.

What happened to personal responsibility? I am not talking about people who are making a decision between food on the table or a roof over their head and buying health insurance. That is a different case. Nor am I talking someone getting in an accident on their way to a job that pays little with no insurance. But people actively participating in recreational activities that carry a risk of injury.

Catastrophic insurance can go a long ways. I used to carry a policy while in school and eating lots of ramen. It did not cover little boo-boos but it did cover the real ah-shits. Regardless of what activity (some have limitations so shop carefully).

Carry on with the belayer - climber responsibility issue.

WOW a law suit against the MO? Why stop there? Why not just take a bad fall at Division and bring a suit against the Feds? They got deeper pockets than the MO. I would say take a fall in Zion, but I think the whole sequester thing has dipped into the National Park System budget.

Fair question - if you're planning on suing Momentum, I don't think you have much right to ask climbers to chip in to your medical bills.

So Momentum is responsible for a climbers' failure to tie their own knot? Interesting.

re: insurance statement. I absolutely agree. However, I would point out that going to a climbing gym is hardly a dangerous activity. This is more of a freak accident. I also got the feeling of shirking personal responsibility from the website. Should'a had a bit more remorse and self-appologetic tone. Definately didn't help being written in a 3rd person voice, and the B.S. about the knot "somehow" becoming undone. Correctly tied figure-8s do not untie. Even a partially finished fig-8 would hold weight.

From her donation website, "She has accrued more than 68,000 USD in medical bills thus far and like most young Americans is uninsured."

I'm not sure that most young Americans are uninsured, but it's sure not a good idea not to be. I had insurance for most of my 20's, I did have a few months here and there that I was between policies, but I always thought the risk of being without insurance was worse than paying the premiums. Especially considering I had a climbing accident with a total bill of $125,000 when I was 20. Fortunately I only ended up pay $5000 out of pocket, which still took me several years of dealing with collections and billing offices to get it paid off.

my advice to amanda, honestly if it were me, I'd probably declare bankruptcy and start over, but short of that, if you make good faith payments, even if they're $5 a month, I don't think they can turn you over to collection agencies so start mailing $5 checks and keep mailing $5 checks. If/when you can pay more, do it but for now, do what you can to keep them off your back and to convince them that you do intend to pay. At some point you'll both come to an agreement that will satisfy the debt.

really sorry this happened to you. and I wish you a speedy and complete recovery. I've been there and it's a long road back.

but what's up with joining this community just to hold your hand out?