>>2567781You're not supposed to climb up waterfalls. I tried to climb a series of 3x 20' -ish waterfalls. The first one was fine. Halfway up the second one my hand slipped and I fell, my left foot hit a big rock under the water, it didn't hurt though and I thought I was good. I climbed back up the second waterfall, then I climbed the third one, then I had to climb a small hill to get out of the gully. As soon as I got to the top of the gully I felt it, sharp shooting pain in my ankle.
I think my brain shut the pain out until it knew that I was in a safe location, because when it hit it was really bad.
I limped back to camp, I get there and there's a medivac helicopter parked next to the campgrounds. Turns out someone else fell out of a tree and had a compound fracture to their arm. Since they were already there, I asked the medic to take a look. Obviously he couldn't tell me anything because he's a fucking medic in the forest, not a doctor in a hospital with an x-ray machine, but he said I could fly out with the other guy since they were already there. I declined and limped back to my hammock. There was a dentist in the camp who was just there on vacation, but he had half of a pharmacy with him and he gave me some pain killers or muscle relaxants or something.
I wake up two days later in my hammock, there was some asian mom type there and she saw me get up so she brought me some food. I rested for like another week or so, mooching meals off of other campers, then I limp-hiked the 11 miles out.
That was 15 years ago. my ankle never healed properly and I have a slight club foot now, plus my jogging mile time went up by like 2 minutes.
I'm pretty sure my ankle had a slight fracture, I probably should have taken the medivac to the hospital, I even had SAR insurance at the time and it would have been free, at least the clubfoot isn't seriously debilitating though.
