[cascadetraverser]

Well done story and trip. FYI, as a health care provider, expect 6-10 weeks before you get resolution from the pain of a rib fracture. Agree with your comments on the painkillers expecially if your solo. Tylenol is generally harmless when taken at appropriate doses. Vast majority of rib fractures are benign and on rare occasion pleural tears and worse occur. Not a whole lot to do or even test for with rib injuries. A chest XR is usually it, if you look fine at the ED. Glad you made it out fine!

[glenoid]

Ouch Wolffie. Thanks for the TR and pics. Great area not to get hurt in! Agree with CT, but would add from personal experience (way too many) that a muscle relaxer helped me more then any other medicine for rib fractures. (We tend to forget about the muscles between the ribs that are torn when the rib breaks or for that matter, bends.)

[tom roy]

Loved your detailed story broken ribs really suck you cant lay down for while and cough and laughing are pure hell. I had a incident on summit of Mt Mc Laughlin a easy day walk up my son and I ended up spending the night under a boulder at 7,500 ft. Took me over 9 hours to get to the car the next morning a trip that took us four hours to make the 9,500 summit the day before. But all is good for me to the wife and I did a twelve plus mile loop around Cold water lake last week. I do have a PLB and that morning almost activated it on Mc Laughlin it gets little traffic. I wont even get into how light we traveled but it was a dam cold and windy night up there in shorts. The first time that I can remember not having extra cloths, And The first time I had been in Medford and it was in the seventies in August Scary what a pretty minor painful injury teaches one. You did good my friend.

[Ancient Ambler]

Great trip, report and photos. I'm sorry to hear about your injury and hope that you'll recover fully and soon. We passed through Lillian basin just three days after your accident, though in the opposite direction. That, and the sobering past experience of gimping my way out after acute injury miles from the TH, give me some appreciation for what you had to go through to get from your accident site over to Low Pass where you spent the night, and then from there out to Obstruction Point the next day. Thanks for sharing your experience with us. On the plus side, you got to see some of the best country the Olympics have to offer.

[RodF]