Hiking 26 miles on a sprained ankle.

“A buddy and I were planning to do the whole franconia notch loop (something like 38 miles) and a mile and a half in, i sprained my ankle. After about 12 tylenol, I decided to walk it off. We got up to Goyut campground which is 13 miles from the road where suddenly I ran out of tylenol. By that time the swelling had almost reached my knee-cap. The next morning the swelling got worse, going up the way up my calph. With a few ibprofen i obtained from one of the people staying at the cabin, we decided to turn back, and take the 13 mile route back to the car... Not very fun...”

“been there done that

only in my case I was only 7 miles from the trail head off trail and all I had was 4 ibprofen for an ankle sprain and a knee strain - took me 12 hours to hike out - lesson learned: never hike without at least 20 ibprofen”

“Ouch! That's very dangerous. Glad you made it back.”

“I never hike without drugs that are ALOT stronger than Ibuprofen.”

“ooh. i sprained mine pretty bad a few years back on big hump mountain heading down to doll flats. i popped a couple aleves, emptied whatever i could from my pack and kept going. i was moving very slow, though. we found an atv trail and walked down to a house around doll flats.
after sitting in a truck for a half an hour i couldn't put any weight on it anymore. i don't know how you slept on it all night then started walking on it again. i guess you gotta do what's gotta be done. that sucks.”

“Hiking the Quehanna trail in PA 2 years ago, I belw both knees out after a 23 mile hike on day 1. About 5 miles into our Sunday hike I stashed my pack on a service road and made it back to the highway that cuts through the area. NJ Hiker stood in the middle of the road and flagged down the first vechicle that happened by. Hitched 5 miles back to my car, then drove back to my pack. Unfortunatly a gate was closed preventine me from driving all the way to when I stashed it, so I had to hike about 2 miles to it and hike back.

That was a painful, rewarding hike!”

“I just did a section of the Franconia Notch Loop a few weeks ago ~ and I was healthy! I can't imagine tackling that with a bum ankle. Glad you made it back okay.”

“Like a dummy I thought I could do this past month's eight-day Sierra Rendezvous with a bum left knee. I made about 2.5 miles and 1100 ft of elevation gain and I knew right then I wasn't going to be able to do the hike. And I sure didn't want the Forest Service to have to come in and carry me out. I walked out and spent the week in a nice motel, drinking good dark ales, and soaking my knee in a hot spring. Nice but not the high sierra.

So far I've been to physical therapy twice and will see the orthopedic surgeon again this afternoon. He told me I won't have to have surgery but I'm beginning to wonder. It hurts a lot.

No hiking until October. Maybe I should just sell all my stuff and buy a canoe?
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“or you could just give it all to me :)”

“rehab for knees really sucks too - or at least it did 30 years ago - some of the most boring exercises - sigh”

“My sprain on Laramie Peak obviously wasn't this bad. Still, I hiked probably 4 miles on really uneven rocky terrain.

Sounds crazy, doing what YOU did!!”

“Jaynewalll...you are TOUGH!

Are you a Marine?”

“no. shes a 16 year old girl! when she turns of age, im going to ask her to marry me!
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“Yup, 5 miles on my torn ligament (hiking out of course.) Ouch.”

“i did 9 or 10 miles on shin splints. that sucked. i cant imagine doing it on legs swollen up to the knees, and in the whites of all places. OUCH!”

“lesson learned: if 12 tylenol dont make it feel better, walking it off up some of the hardest trail in the country aint goner help”

“Maybe next time (if there is one) we all will get smart and soak offending appendage in a stream/river of glacial runoff for awhile. Now that would have been the smart thing to do, eh?”

“what if youre a flasher? do you have to soak your offending appendage then?”

“hahahaha by the way everyone, i'm a guy. Sorry if that screws up any future plans.”

““hahahaha by the way everyone, i'm a guy. Sorry if that screws up any future plans.”
Jaynewallll
6:02:39 PM
8/04/05
ignore this user

And with that, Crash Bang's fantasy comes crashing to the ground.”

“can i put your hair in pigtails and call you lolita anyway?”

“lol”