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Ever done something really stupid while trying to act kewl?

Sal

Sal
819 days ago

My first year in Colorado was really wild for me because I was raised in MIchigan which was flat. So when I moved to the mountains and would write to people back home about climbing they all thought I was some sort of Ms. Indiana Jones and it really impressed them. Then my best pal from U of M came out to see me. My then fiancee and I took her and one of the guys from my office up climbing. We were coming back down and I wanted to go down a rough route to see if there was any sign of gemstones in the creekbed that wound down the mountain.

So saying, my sweetie took my pack and the others proceeded down the hill to wait for me by Clear Creek (yes that lovely stream that Coors toots about getting their water from).

Well, the going was a bit rougher than I had anticipated. At one very steep point a vine wound around my ankle and I kept going figuring it would fall away like usual. It didn't - it grabbed me real tight. Trying to extricate myself wound up leaving me hanging upside down by my ankle on an extremely steep incline.

By this time everyone was sitting by the creek watching me, eating all the snacks in my pack - the pack that contained my knife - and snapping a few pics of Ms. Indiana Jones in her latest adventure as captive to a possibly human eating plant and having a very good laugh amongst themselves.

Well, finally I was able to do a sit up to get into a position where I could free myself - which I found to have only one means to achieve - I had to chew the vine away from my ankle. When it let go I rolled. I rolled a good ways down -- right through a whole bunch of nice blossomy cactus plants. Not sure which smarted more - the cactus needles or my pride.

It's pretty funny now...but it did take until the next time my pal visited me in CO to get over it. By that time I had some expertise and knew exactly what I was doing up there......and exactly how dangerous it could be to attempt to show off when it is Mother Nature at the wheel of the ship!

So who's brave enough to tell THEIR story?

Karen Blundell

Karen Blundell
819 days ago

great story!

I grew up in Montreal. There were many times in my younger days that a group of us would get together and decide to climb up the hard way to the top of Mount Royal. We were bored and silly. There was this one time when I was wearing those cheap sneakers and the ground was very wet. I climbed up half the mountain then ran into some trouble. I kept on sliding down. I could not climb up anymore because every step I took I slid down.

My friends finally had to call the Montreal fire department to come and rescue me off the side of the mountain. To say that I was embarassed is an understatement. The lesson I learned was simple: wear the right kind of footwear if you're doing any kind of climbing.