What's Your Dumbest "Climbing" Injury?

Was looking at route beta on my laptop. Tried to get up and tripped over the charging cord and dislocated my big toe.. Still bothers me.

Well, I broke my cranium and 2 cervical vertebra in my neck after free soloing/high ball bouldering and I fell backwards and bonked my head on the rock before decking. That really fucking sucked......Wear your helmets boys, and girls. A severe traumatic brain injury is something I wish no person need to endure. >_<

Belay neck. 

I was tied in and about to start climbing, yawned and pulled a muscle in my neck. It hurt to swallow and it took lots of stretching before I could turn my head. This is what fitness after 50 looks like   

After a safe day of trad climbing at T-Wall, we decided to cool off in one of the local watering holes.  There were some cool looking DWS roof problems that we started messing around with, until I realized one of them was actually a “shallow water” solo when I fell and cut my foot open.  The Chattanooga ER is top notch!

Anthony L wrote: I have a ganglion cyst on my wrist that magically appeared during a warm up bouldering session and then got worse on a 5.8 while barely weighted... Climbing + autoimmune disease = weird body stuff, I guess.

smack that shit with a hard cover book. before i knew what one was, my old lady came home with one and handed me a book and told me to hit it for her. boom, gone in a few seconds...didnt hurt her at all. it never came back....

Distended middle leg injury due to, well, sometimes you just swing the wrong way and SMACK, POW, BOOM, BANG, ouch! nuff said I think. 

I was using a pocket knife to cut the tape off my hands by sliding the blade underneath the tape along the palm of my hand, but I accidentally had the sharp edge facing my palm rather than the tape. Slice...

Yesterday: successfully redpointing 5.11a, just to slide and fall on some loose rocks at the base of the climb after getting back in my hiking shoes. THIS WAS COMPLETELY FLAT GROUND.
Luckily no injuries besides being laughed at by climbing partner.

Went to do west face of leaning tower, buddy was too quick on the comback from a leg injury and as we reached the third pitch, his leg was too stiff to lead. I led all of the pitches on that climb (very fun) and then packed all the gear into the haul bag. While waiting for him only  300ft from the parking lot I managed to crush my ring finger tip with a big rock trying to restack a cairn. Profanities ensued and I wrapped it in toilet paper and sulked for the next three weeks as I watched my nail die and fall off. Nail has grown back but very tip of my finger is still numb. 

After about the 10th time exiting an indoor pool when my daughter was still small enough to need to sit on my lap on the waterslide, I started "getting a work-out" by doing power mantles where I would briskly throw my foot right next to my hand like all I had was a small hold to stand up on and not a whole ledge, and surge up out of the pool. I'm sure I felt bad-ass or something as I made these power exits. The last time, I felt something - my meniscus, it turns out  - clearly rip.  Surgery went fine 8 years ago but after lots of downhill hiking or outdoor bouldering falls I'm reminded which knee is missing half of its cushioning. Idiot! :)

On the hike in to a new project, swung around a skinny tree while stepping down off a rock a foot and a half. Something in my back gave way and I was bent over 90 degrees with searing pain in my lower back. Couldn't stand up at all. Pain was so bad I put my harness on to apply pressure. Lo and behold, I could stand up to near vertical with it cinched as tight as it would go. Went ahead and did the first pitch of the thing. Took off the harness and I was back over 90 degrees. Half crawled out of there and got back in time to see the chiro. Three visits later I was fine. Never any trouble since.

I've always wondered how bad it would have been if I'd taken a fall like that. Probably really bad. It was foolish to climb with that injury.

Backpacked into the green creek valley near Mt. Baker (PNW) to climb some things around there... got into the valley too late in the day to climb anything of substantial size but too early to immediately go to sleep. Decided to play around on some of the boulders scattered throughout the valley. Found what I thought was going to be a fun little problem and went to give it a real go. Broke the starting jug off as I yarded on, which dropped onto my chest as I fell hard onto the slab below me (obviously without pads as bouldering was not the intent of the trip). No real injury but knocked the wind out of me and immediately sent me to the whiskey stash for relief.

I broke my foot "climbing in Moab"---kicking rocks out of the road to some free camping.

Worse than being on crutches for 2 months, is explaining your own stupidity over and over.

Spent a weekend in Owen's River Gorge. Got in the car back to LA with no more than a few scrapes on my hands and legs. As I got out of my buddy's car back in LA, stood up quickly, hit my face on his roof rack and subsequently got a nasty black eye...

I broke my toe on the hike in to Pinnacle Ridge: I stepped on a rock and it slide downhill under a log, bent my toe back too far. Climbed all day, walked out, never got it checked; can't bend the toe all the way anymore.

Thought of another one: a few years ago at Red Rocks we were a party of three with two helmets, sport climbing in Calico. Leader dislodged a rock which came inches from hitting the belayer in the head -- it went in between is torso and arm - and belayer was not wearing a helmet, since he had loaned it to me for my last lead. After that we decided we needed to be more careful and I gave the belayer his helmet back. But a few minutes later, while standing around in between climbs, he tripped and hit his face on the ground, cutting his eyebrow area open. He had to get 8 stitches.

Wasn't me but I know a guy who was ice bouldering and took a heal spur in the ass.

Nybo if you're out there, we love you!

I’ve sprained my ankle twice bouldering in the gym. 

My wife pulled a rope one time and it smacked her in the eye resulting in a big shiner. 

I fractured my ankle bouldering in the gym. I was finishing up a bouldering session and cooling down on a V2. I released from the final hold. landed on the mat, my ankle rolled and the next thing I knew it gave out and I was on my back in excruciating pain. I had to hobble out of the gym and into the Emergency Room on a pole brush the gym let me borrow.