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Topic: Aaron Ralston
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Leonard
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posted September 19, 2004 10:27 PM
I just watched a two hour show on MSNBC with Tom Brokaw. How he spent 5 days in a slot canyon with his hand trapped under a bolder, before cutting off his arm. It's old news now, but still! That guy has balls, I'm really impressed. And, you know, it could happen to anybody. I'm always getting into things, miles from anywhere, and my wife doesn't even know what state I'm in. Makes you think.
Good hunting. LB
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Z
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posted September 20, 2004 08:02 AM
Leonard,
As you can guess that was big news up here. I can't imagine doing that. What courage. There was a picture in the Salt Lake Tribune the other day which he took of himself with his own camera showing his arm caught between the boulder and the wall. Maybe it was on Brokaw's show. The guy has a lotta guts.
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Weasel
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posted September 20, 2004 05:41 PM
Just goes to show ya. You should always carry a sharp knife.
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Locohead
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posted October 08, 2004 07:47 PM
The freaky wierd thing is that this guy cut through his flesh with a tiny little leatherman knock-off. He then took a day or so (I think) to swing his body up onto the rock and bent his arm to snap the bones. He couldn't cut through them with the pocket knife.
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Leonard
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posted October 08, 2004 08:05 PM
Yeah, that's true. Even after he cracked both bones, he did use the pliers to sever the nerve bundles.
Part of the reason why the cheap knife was ineffective was that he had spent days chipping at the rock with it, in an effort to create enough room to extract his arm. Even a quality knife can't chip rock for days and stay sharp. But, it didn't work, the rock just wedged tighter. He slipped somewhere around day four and punctured his wrist and some smelly fluid squirted out. Uh oh!
That's when he realized that desparate times call for desparate measures.
Good hunting. LB
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Jack Roberts
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posted October 08, 2004 10:51 PM
When push comes to shove, you do what you have to do, or you die. Usually it is a decision you have seconds to make. Thinking about it for days, I can't relate to. I have done the seconds choice a few times and he did the days choice. We are both still alive so It had to be the right choice.
Jack
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brent Saxton
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posted October 09, 2004 08:59 AM
I seen that show myself! That dude has some balls for sure! I cant even think about having to do something like that!
On a side note: I always make sure someone knows were Im going, and what time I will be back or close. And if im going to very late (say tracking a deer or something) I always make a call home or someone to let them know) At least if they know what areas I will be in they have some idea were to start looking for me. I make some long tracks coyote hunting. But I hunt with a partner most of the time. Plus I keep marked maps of just about all my areas.
You just never know!
Brent
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azcallmaker
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posted October 09, 2004 07:15 PM
It is amazing what the human body can go through in order to survive. As long as you try and keep your thinking cap on, you can hopefully make it out. I live in the desert and it is not much for forgiveness in terms of mistakes. I also let people know where I am going and about when they should expect me back.
Loren
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