hosehead634

I live in Denver and am in Longmont about 15 days a month. "How high are we? Man I need to poop"

Try firecache.com for Nicks boots. I use them and the can be rebuilt for a life time. I love going out on fires, it is hard work but I now look at it as a paid vacation! Life got a lot better when I got off the fire line and onto an engine, less hiking and better view of the fires. The friends you make on these fires will last your lifetime. Be careful out there. Big difference between structure side and wildland side of things. I am so used to hurry up and get things done, to going to the wildland side of hurry up and wait .....A lot. "How high are we? Man I need to poop"

I work for a structure department that has a wildland team that goes out every season. I would suggest buying Nicks or Whites boots, they are expensive ($300-400) but when your work depends on your feet any price is worth paying. Remember to purchase your boots well before the season, the last place you want to break in your boots is on a fire. If you don't you will get to know the joys of moleskin It is true if you have your current National registry EMT-Basic or above you can single resource out to fires a lot faster. Good luck and maybe I will run into next season!

Peej I am fairly quite on these forums as I have little experiance in most things, however I am very well versed in nerve damage. At age 22 I had a left vertibral disection witch resulted in a CVA (Stroke) this was caused by....yup you guessed it the Chiropractor. I had deficits on my right side of my body that was mostly caused by the fact that my brain was dying. All in all it took almost 6 months to totally get back to normal, I suffered no long term deficits, for that I feel very lucky. About 4 years ago I was testing my luck and dumped a bike at high speed causing sever damage to my nerves in my neck on my left side, after all the physical therapy I had managed to not wake up daily with a headache and life was back to normal. Last year at work I fell 37 feet and tried to move earth, the result was broken wrist 4 pins , 2 screws and a nice plate to boot. I had damaged my brachial nerve and it was only 50% connected however they figured that. I still have pins and needle feeling in my palm and thumb but it is slowly going away. The only advice I can give, is stick with the physical therapy not matter how lame and god awful painful it is. I feel for you and wish you the best. P.S. As far as Chiropractors go, if you do go that route do a lot of research, ask questions. I personally don't trust them as far as I could shit one, but that just me one of the "FEW" people that have been fuck in the drive thru by a chiropractor. "How high are we? Man I need to poop"

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I just wanted to say I am glad to be back, after I broke about every bone in my right wrist (Not jumping related, but funny) It was great, even with the cold air and the new metal parts i still loved it. I will admit that I was worried about that first landing, I had visions of re-injuring my bionic wrist from a PLF gone haywire. All went well and I will be back at Mile-Hi again tomarrow. Hope to see you guys there!

I was there watching this person jump, he is actually one on my friends. Everything you described is correct, except in my opinion the long spot, I think he flew his canopy ferther away. I beleive that the radio communication may have played a large factor in him being so far off. If anyone has jumped with the radios at mile hi I think they would agree that somtimes it is hard to hear the instructors directions, that being said I know that the mentioned student has realized many things from this jump, notably that he is ultimatly the one who has final say in his safety, two that he always needs to have another out, even if that means swallowing his pride and landing off the DZ and three, he cannot always rely on others decisions, thay might not always be there. With all that being said I will say that was on of the scariest things i have witnessed, as far as injuries he has no broken bones, just a bruised foot and scrape on his elbow(ego too) Everyone on the trailer thought his injuries would have been extensive. Just a side note the first thing he said when the trailer pulled up was "Did you guys see THAT!" It is also worth noting that he failed AFF 3 but is looking foward to getting back up to prove himself "How high are we? Man I need to poop"

I had the joy of having Josh as one of my instructors while on AFF. He had a great attitude and his advice will carry with me the rest of my life. Josh, I will miss you and will jump with you when I get there! My heart goes out to your fam. and everyone else at the DZ. BSBD "How high are we? Man I need to poop"

Funny this topic was brought up. I have just been released from the hospital after 4 hours of surgery. I thought it would be a good idea to wake my neighbor up by banging on her bedroom window, we live on the 3rd story of my loft, I misses the ledge and fell around 25 feet, thank god my wrist and face padded the fall. I now have a robotic arm, sort of, 3 pins and 4 screws. I have the next 12 weeks to rest and plan how to corner the market of disposible lighter repairmen. God I love pain killers!! You could sub name this as the worst attempt at a booty call

I will be at Mile hi Sunday. I am sure I will run into you. I am trying to knock out my 25 before it gets too cold!

Just graduated from AFF at Mile-hi. Just wanted to say hello and looking forward to meeting many of you all down the road!