Man, these are awesome.
What's the story behind the mangled finger?
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Man, these are awesome.
What's the story behind the mangled finger?
Wow! Some serious carnage in here!
I don’t have any gore pics to share but I do have a story….
In the mid-90s I was on a photo shoot in Canada and we spent a few days at Lake Louise. One of the lifts there that gets you to the good terrain is a Pomo lift. Being from the states (Squaw Valley) this just wasn’t something I was very used to. It’s not like they’re hard to figure out but for snowboarders they’re kind of a pain in the ass. My experience with Pomo lifts in the states was on mellow terrain but up here they had it going up what seemed like a 35-40 degree slope (near the top).
On our last day there we went up the Pomo first thing in the morning and the track under the lift was REALLY icy. After a combination late night partying, wake-n-bake, and generally just not paying enough attention I fell off the lift near the steepest part. I was close to the top and I didn’t want to start over so I took my board off and tried to grab one of the Pomo discs. This was a mistake that nearly cost me my life. When I stepped onto the track and tried to grab the disc I immediately started sliding down the icy track. It was like a fucking luge course without the walls. It only took a second or two for me to really start gaining momentum and speed. I knew I was in serious trouble. Faster and faster I slid down the hill out of control. My body starts spinning too…head first…feet first..etc. I see a couple lift towers fly by me and I’m relieved that I don’t hit them at this speed (and without a helmet) but I’m also scared because I know that with each foot I descend I gain more speed and sooner or later I’m going to hit something. The old saying of “seeing your life flash before your eyes” was really ringing true.
It was early morning so the lift was empty. Had it been crowed I probably would have hit the party behind me at a low speed and been fine but no such luck. After what I estimate to be about 200-300vertical feet of sliding on the track at what seemed like at least 20-25 miles per hour I finally ran into someone coming up the lift. It was a high speed collision and we bounced off each other in a split second. We both slid off the track and I finally came to a rest another 20 feet or so down the mountain. I was soooo stoked to finally be stopped but I knew something was wrong with my leg. I pulled up my pant leg and saw lot of blood and a depression in my base layer (but not a hole) near the front of my calf muscle. I applied pressure and looked up the hill to the person I hit. He was shaken up but not injured (thankfully!).
Soon after, the ski patrol showed up and took me to the medics (props to Lake Louise Ski Patrol too!). It was there that we discovered another wound on the backside of my calf and it was deemed that I needed to be sent to a real hospital.
At the hospital it was determined that I had been punctured by the ski of the person I collided into. His ski tip entered the front of my calf and had enough force to poke itself out the backside leaving a four inch long laceration (width of the tip) on both sides. It was gnarly.
I was lucky that it didn’t sever my femoral artery (only a few mm away) and I didn’t bleed to death. I’m also lucky my lower body hit the skier/skis and not my upper body. I wouldn’t have been in very good shape had I been punctured in the heart, lungs, or head.
The Canadian doctor and hospital cleaned/stapled me up good and took great care of me. Recovery was only 8-10 weeks too for the muscle damage which was much shorter than if I broke the leg or tore the ACL. I also got a full page, contents page, and some clips for a video segment so the trip wasn’t a complete loss.
I tried to take a pic of the scars but they don’t show up very well.
no blood but how about a sequence shot of the exact moment i broke my wrist...
http://img484.imageshack.us/img484/4867/img10754tc.jpg
http://img484.imageshack.us/img484/7507/img10767bb.jpg
http://img484.imageshack.us/img484/2369/img10779pg.jpg
http://img484.imageshack.us/img484/51/img10783rk.jpg
http://img484.imageshack.us/img484/8770/img10796ps.jpg
I will never be a maggette this thread proves it. Not only am I not cool enough I'm not down for this much gore. :eek: Almost tossed my cookies a few times. :redface:
I have to get these images out of my head before I ski next season. F*ck these pics are freakin me out.
Man, I think we're knee clones or something. I have the same exact pic from my surgery last year. I though you got if from my webshots or kzone.Quote:
Originally Posted by foxy
Then again, the ACL club has a pretty high membership rate in this forum :D
B)
We need to see Vinman's alien in here.
This is re-run from last week, but this is right thread for it...
http://www.biglines.com/photosv2/200...ines_63045.jpg
The Carnage at kitchen
http://www.biglines.com/photosv2/200...ines_63500.jpg
All the blood came from that little cut in my foot. So it must have hit some big vein. Plus I join also to ACL club with this pic :)
Chicks may dig scars, but I dig chicks with scars.
This thread rools.
Edit: Just realized that Iceman may have a contribution to this thread...
Here's what my lower leg looked like after my first day back on skis 4.5 months after ACL reconstruction. I think I had my brace cinched down a little too tight eh?
http://timefortuckerman.com/members/...w/Affixass.jpg
your ass looks like a bowling ball
who was it that basically hiked out 2 miles out of the BC holding his intestines? I can't recall, but that story was one of the nastiest ever.
Dudeleskibum.Quote:
Originally Posted by watersnowdirt
Snowdreamer- loving gore and carnage is not necessarily required to be a maggette :) And if you about tossed your cookies at K-Stormchaser's finger pic, you're most definitely not the only one! :rolleyes2Quote:
Originally Posted by snowdreamer
Love the pics everyone! Keep it going on! Good story too bcrider... made me cringe! :D
HAHAHA!Quote:
Originally Posted by BushwackerinPA
Anyway, does it have to be our own carnage?
This link was posted here before but I still think it trumps anything I've ever seen.
http://www.rattlesnakebite.org/rattlesnakepics.htm
ohhhh shiettttt...damnn must've been one helluva rattlesnake.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dug
According to the story, western diamonback rattlesnake. Kid was 13. Lucky.
Holy Crap! I can't believe anybody could get that cut up by a rattle snake!!!! So much skin missing! I've never seen anything like that in my life!
well he got bit in the hand and then his arm swelled up so they had to slice his arm open to relieve the pressure. It's all in the story.
I find that kind of stuff fascinating. :tongue:
I found the fact that the muscles were basically totally exposed absolutely fascinating!Quote:
Originally Posted by Dug
I don't know if that hospital carried antivenom, but it's turns out, so many hospitals don't, even when they are surrounded by rattlesnake country. I don't get it....
Wow, the ass shots, I mean, like wow. Those trump my ass injury. I broke my tailbone. The bruise was not large in diameter, but it was so dark, it looked like I had a second asshole.
The pics below represent the worst 3 weeks of my life. I got poison ivy while canoe camping. It was so bad I had to get a handicap placard because walking 50 feet was nearly beyond my capability. The itchyness wasn't really that bad, it was the general discomfort. It never really spread above my ankles though, so I was never prescribed steroids.
My alien baby
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f3...erham/ivy2.jpg
This was pretty uncomfortable
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f3...erham/ivy4.jpg
This is the worst part. If you notice, my two middle toes are so swollen, that they're a few inches apart. It felt like someone was blowing a balloon up underneath my skin
http://i50.photobucket.com/albums/f3...erham/ivy3.jpg
Wasn't it the dude that dudele was with? Gorillo, maybe?Quote:
Originally Posted by iceman
Here's my rerun:
http://mediarite.com/powboard/ankle_nov1.jpg
Did you tell anyone to "kiss my black ass" while you had that bruise?Quote:
Originally Posted by Affix Snow
That would be a racist joke. We can't condone that here.Quote:
Originally Posted by bklyntrayc
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Originally Posted by bklyntrayc
I would guess no. Because he would have to say "kiss my black half-ass" and that just doesn't come out the same.
You a basehead fan, trayc?Quote:
Originally Posted by bklyntrayc
All's I got is my avatar...and most of yall know that story. And even though I had to have like 6 units of blood pumped into me, there was no real gore with that one so even though I almost died it still doesn't look as gnar as the ass or the finger.
I took some pics of my broken nose in the ER a couple weeks ago, but aside from having a big red shnozz, it's just not that impressive.
p.s. this is a great thread
p.p.s. Altachic your rotor burn is awesome. I finally got one of my own last summer, but it's not as cool/defined as yours. Enjoy!
What story? Care to share with those not in the know?
Sure. I hit a tree at Schweitzer goin' mach looney. Skiing some nice open trees, saw my pals (including fiancee) standing at the bottom in an open meadow and opened it up and just let it run for the (supposedly) smooth runout. Hit a compression (or cattrack) I didn't see (flat light), which then launched me about 40-50 feet down the hill, then I hip-checked a tree about 6 feet off the ground. Shattered my pelvis, acetabulum (hip joint/socket), snapped my femur, and popped my bladder. No bueno. After the heli-evac, I had one surgery to fix my bladder and femur in Spokane, then they life-flighted me to SLC where they fixed my pelvis a few days later. It was sketch to say the least.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dug
The Maggots were really there for me on that one - there was a huge thread on it at Powder (this was before the move to TGR), and I easily received 100+ get-well cards at the hospital (I think the nurses were a bit confused) plus lots of other cool gifts and visits. It was cool. I've still got the old thread printed out, but it's lost to the electronic vacuum out there. Somehow they knew exactly what happened - amazing what a network we have here.
A quick sampling from the thread, Samwich was the original reporter (March 11, 2003) (it happened March 7):
"One of my dad's friends was skiing Schweitzer this weekend, and he said that the Powder Mag Online Editor hit a tree at 40+ mph. He is badly banged up, but still alive. That is all I know. Is that KevinDineen or Particle? Whoever it is...get better soon!@ I think I speak for all of us when I say that the maggots are behind out.
Splat then clarified the same day: "This is true. Particle whacked a tree, some patrol buds at Schweitzer told me. I called the hospital in Spokane to see if there was anything us maggots nearby could do, but he had been transferred to SLC. phUnk's been following up on this..."
then Samwich got even more info (how does the network come up with accurate info time and again???):
"He has a fractured pelvis, a fractured femur, and a ruptured bladder. He's gonna make it, barring infection or other things that could go wrong. Josh and company were skinig the headwall. Josh took it in huge, arcing 40+m turns...but failed to see the cattrack. He hit it about ten feet away from the group of people, and launched off of it right into a huge, 1+ foot diameter tree. He caught in on his hip and leg. Just to put that in perspective, a christmas tree-sized tree stronger than your femur. He fell into the tree, and started shouting. He thought he was dying. When the first 4 or 5 ski patrol arrived, they had nothing. Not even a shovel to dig him out of the tree well with. They radioed to base to get some equipment up there. A snowmobile came up with some shitty med-kit that contained things used to treat the minor wounds ski patrol are used to dealing with. Luckily a guy he met on a chairlift was there, and he happened to be a doctor. He was able to set up an IV. After an hour doing God knows what, the patrol got Josh out of the tree well (to their credit, a very tricky situation...how do you move someone in that state? Even if they are in a tree well?). They put him on a backboard and heli-evaced him to Spokane. He was then transferred to Utah.
Apparently, had he hit the tree any other way, he would be dead. Your guardian angel was with you there Josh...pull through man!"
This was just a tiny representation of a huge thread. This place is there for its fallen members, no doubt. Just a few of the names in support are still around, including: jibij, arty, MT, bagtagley, professor, lemon boy, lanemeyer, ted stryker, tyrone shoelaces, DINM?, raddam, SLCFreshies, splat, 13, kb1dqh, djsapp, bn, mtbakerskier, akpm, ulty, badroo, dexter, re, xover, truth, wild/mildbill, board, the altagirls, basically the entire utah crew, and many many many more.
OK I might've gone off on that a bit too long but hell just wanted to tell everyone who's relatively new here what a kickass place this is. :cool:
P.S. My avatar is the x-ray of my bolted-together hip. The rod on the left is my femur rod, the row of screws is holding my hip joint together.
Damn... I have this CSI-style visual of a hip socket exploding. Glad you had so much support and I'm glad you're making turns again.
Let me guess, you were in Butte on St. Patrick's Day.Quote:
Originally Posted by Spew
damn! never a good time to look at pics like that, but first thing in the am! :eek: i never knew a snake bite could require so much repair - assuming one survives.Quote:
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Originally Posted by Dug
http://www.rattlesnakebite.org/rattlesnakepics.htm
ohhhh shiettttt...damnn must've been one helluva rattlesnake.
From running the last few weeks
http://www.tetongravity.com/usergall...4/100_1688.jpg
a thread I hope to never contribute to with my own carnage
gnarly missing skin snakebite blackass fuctup scars 'n hardware motherfuckers with ivy and burns with guts hangin out...
I remember reading those chilling posts from particle's crunch- forgot how close you came brotha
actually the most enduring lesson from particle's explosion was:
Drain your bladder frequently b/c in the words of the ER doc...."it popped like a water ballon"
actually the most enduring lesson from particle's explosion was:
Drain your bladder frequently b/c in the words of the ER doc...."it popped like a water ballon"
hell, that's quite a few notches better than the "wear clean underwear - in case you get into an accident" advice.Quote:
originally posted by lemon boy
actually the most enduring lesson from particle's explosion was:
Drain your bladder frequently b/c in the words of the ER doc...."it popped like a water ballon"
no gross-out carnage here, but i dug this old chestnut out of the vaults:
http://www.biglines.com/photosv2/200...ines_63575.jpg
on my first time out in 7 years, got into a bit of a pissing contest w/a coworker, got pretty big air and landed hard on shitty massachusetts hardpack...leg crumpled under me when i tried to walk it off...i'd fractured me pelvis!! no pins, but 5 days in the hospital and a few weeks on crutches and cane and percosset.
gladly that was almost 7 years back, i ski more and harder than i ever did and i'm yet to feel even a tweak of pain from the injury...i credit yoga, chlorophyll and chelated iron...and luck:)
A picture from when they had to take out 2 feet of my small intestines :the_finge
Never let it be said Rune ain't got guts.
Just fewer
okay that was nasty as all hell. wtf happened?
edit: thank god I've got this set to 20 replies per page so I don't have to look at that again to see rune's answer. note to self: do NOT open page 4 of this thread again.