Chockstone Forum

      Sponsored By
      ROCK
   HARDWARE

Chockstone Photography

Australian Landscape Prints

Chockstone Forum - Accidents & Injuries

Report Accidents and Injuries

Topic Date User

Worst 8 weeks ever. 15-Jul-2009 At 8:54:15 AM peterc

Message

Hi Cookie, that's a bugger about your toe. A few years ago I snapped one of my toes a week before a climbing trip to Thailand!!! There was no way I could even think of putting my foot into a climbing shoe (...actually I did think about it).

I still went on the trip, and climbed with a shoe on one foot, and barefoot with the other (strapped tightly). Something that is a lot easier to do on limestone (and it was my little toe so I could keep it off the rock a lot of the time). The worst part was bumping the toe on tree roots and rocks on the path through the jungle.

Anyway, I hope you mend well. And I agree with Mikl about the fingerboard.

But if it makes you feel any better, I've had to take a whole year off from climbing for medical reasons and am only just getting back to it now. My first session was hysterical. I was so weak that I had "Elvis arm" when I held the same position for longer than about ten seconds!