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| Runner crawls nearly 11 hours after breaking leg in freezing national park |
| 2020-02-25 |
| [NYPOST] A trail runner crawled for almost 11 hours in freezing temperatures while wearing just shorts and a light shirt after breaking a leg in a remote national park in Washington. Joseph Oldendorf told KIRO-TV that he had already run 12 miles through a snowy trail in Olympic National Forest when he slipped on ice and his tibia "completely snapped off." "I didn’t want my family to hear I died in the wilderness. I think it’d be unbearable," Oldendorf said as he showed off gruesome wounds to his knees from his hospital bed in Seattle. "I just figured this is my only chance ‐ I’m going to crawl all the way there." Wearing only light running gear ‐ despite below-freezing temperatures ‐ Oldendorf crawled for almost seven hours before getting cellphone service ‐ and then another four hours to finally reach rescuers. "I had to crawl on all fours ... after a while my knees were just raw," he said of the "rocky, snowy, dirty, wet trail." They got so bad, he even tried putting his shoes on his knees as he crawled to "at least have some traction and a little bit of protection." "But they’re still really messed up," he said. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Scala Sancta ought to be a piece of cake. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2020-02-25 19:58 |
| #2 Dude was a Jack London character. Look at his knees. . |
| Posted by: OregonGuy 2020-02-25 17:27 |
| #1 Tough Dude. Salutes. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2020-02-25 07:56 |