>>1757230>Were you being stupid, Anon?Yes, and this was actually the point of this thread, to not make dumb mistakes in wilderness. I was carrying my bike across the river, stepping on slippery stones, while on my right side there was a 2m waterfall drop. I spent 10 minutes searching for a safe way to get across, but was too lazy to take off my jeans and walk slowly through the stream. Instead I decided to make it fast. Slipped in the middle of the stream, bike got caught by it strongly and pushed me off that 2 meter rock into the water, that was showering me from above, let alone I was standing waist-deep in the stream. Good thing I took phone and cigs out of my pocket instantly, water got in them, but not crucially. Honestly the most thing I was worried about were cigs. World can end in a sec, but if I don't have a smoke at that moment I'm dead. So the first thing I did the moment I got to the shore was lighting up a semi wet Lucky Strike. Cigarettes are the gift to humanity. I once fell from a bike while being deep in the woody mountainous wild area, about 14 hours of ride to the nearest settlement. Fell heavily on a granite sharp pointed rock, the right shoulder was hanging low close to the chest, zero movement, terrible pain close to fainting, shock, fear... Shoulder was clearly popped out, so I had to make it real quick to decide what to do, every second wasted was making me paralised there. I knew some techs to put the shoulder back from mountaineer experience, however all in theory. Still tried. It was hellish pain, but at least I could hold the handlebar and ride away from there. Cigs were the only painkiller I had, so I smoked a lot. It defo normalized breathing, lowered the sick heart beat and adrenaline level. Pain stayed, I couldn't move right hand at all, but still felt better than before, because I could move now. That case also relates to stupidity, actually. The breaks on the bike were literally steaming from heat, because of a several hour
