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Originally Posted by ploddinTod
Ed, Thanks for taking the time to write such a descriptive report. Sorry to hear of your mishap with your knee and I hope it heals quickly so that you can get back to your planned hikes. Unfortunately, you're getting into the time of year where you'll definitely be battling the heat, humidity and bugs. And being a student, you really don't have much choice as to the time of year you go hiking.  Thinking back on your fall, do you think your footware made a difference? Or was the trail surface at that point just like walking on marbles to an extent that even walking barefoot, a person would have fallen?  |
Hehe, you're politely calling me "long-winded" but that's okay. I always made A's on English papers, even in college. The only professor I had a hard time pleasing was my "business writing" prof - she always dinged me for 3-5 points for being "too wordy - this is business writing, not prose. Make your point and move on..."
As far as the accident, I really think it was simply not watching my footing. It had been muggy and drizzly all morning so the rock was slick. I simply put my foot in the wrong place. I never actually fell, the knee and ankle buckled on me but not enough to drop me. Otherwise, likely I would have slid a bit as it was a fairly steep section of trail (the SE potion of Trail 4 between where it turns from double-track to single-track and the canyon floor). A lot of that trail is loose fist-sized rock but, IIRC, I slipped on bare bedrock.