LOVE TO ALL THE INJURIES

The idea of posting injury photos isn't to exploit gore and/or other people's misfortunes in a Jerry Springer-esque fashion. It's more like singing the blues or going down the road feeling bad in an upbeat sort of way. So this goes out to all the people who do inherently dangerous things to get their kicks. Thanks for your photo submissions, the Tshirts are in the mail.


"Love to all the injuries," Ian Lateef Cannon.


"Dislocated on the Bottom Moose Oct 2010.Gotta love it. Surgery needed to repair it," Joe Kadelak.


"My first 60 foot waterfall, a sudden gush of water in the boils upon landing leading to my upper lip folding up over my face. At least that is what it felt like," Carl Jacks.


"This photo doesn't look that bad at all, but it's of me after i was pulled off the river after I had dislocated my shoulder on march 13. It has been 23 days and 16 hours since I last paddled. Please give me a reason to keep going on and send me a t-shirt," Bethany Overfield.

The next 3 are from Mark Evans, we sent him a hoodie for this -






"From a snowboarding crash that I had last January attempting a 60 ft. road gap in the Wasatch backcountry. All in all, this is the list of my injuries: Compound shattered calcaneus (heel), tibial plateau fracture, fibula fracture, L2 burst fracture, sternum fracture, pulmonary contusions, and collapsed lungs. I now have 10 pins, 3 plates, and cadaver bone in my foot, 9 screws and a plate in my tibia, and 4 screws, 2 brackets, and a bone graft from my pelvis fusing my L1 2 and 3 vertebrae," Mark Evans. You can see a video of his crash here . . .



"Zack's shoulder popped out on Beavers Falls on the Eagle section of the Beaver in NY. We put his shoulder back in on the river and he hiked out. Once at the car we immobilized the shoulder with the only available material, a cam strap," Patrick Griffin


"I fired a 1/2" staple from a spring-loaded staple gun into the bone of my left index finger...not a bad injury but still a cool picture," Matt Dalton.


"My buddy Josh and I were tandem surfing, when I flipped while he was 360ing. The front of the boat caught me in the mouth and knocked my front four teeth straight back. Using my tongue I pushed them back straight and held them in," Ty Caldwell.


"Believe it or not I rolled up after this rock encounter of the first kind, " Johnny Newsome.


"I cut my foot open loading boats at the New River in West Virginia. I fell off the top of a rafting bus down into the edge of the river. I eventually got a staph infection in the cut and suffered some nerve damage. I haven't paddled barefooted since," Sam England.

Splash Tops and Bingers in the South East.

Howdy!

This school gig can sometimes be a drag but from time to time it has it's redeeming moments and Spring Break is one of those. No way was I getting stuck in Myrtle Beach with a bunch of drunk college kids trying to get tan for Spring Break. Garrette and I decided to head up to Linville for four days in the high country to kick off the Spring Break. Friday rolled around and I started chomping at the bit to get the fuck out of Asheville. So I skipped out on classes and ran over to plasma joint so I could donate a bottle of Whiskey worth of Plasma. We were treated to lows in 50's and plenty of cool fresh mountain air on top of the Chimneys.








The hike went something like this for those familiar with the Linville area. Walked in at the Pitch In trail then up to Babel Tower the next day. Woke up at Babel Tower and crossed the river, hiked up Spence Ridge to Little Table Rock up and over the Chimneys across Table Rock Gap and down Shortoff Mountain so we could sleep next to the river. Woke up crossed the river and took the Mountains to Sea trail back to 105 and hoofed it back to the Car.

It only seemed right to head over to the Noli after Linville, had to keep it safe on the river and timed the day light just right to take out at dark.

Instead of going down to Long Creek for the Saturday Sunday Tallulah release I figured I would just stay local and help clean up the Narrows. Fifteen or Twenty heads gathered at Fish Top Saturday morning to clean up Mama Green. I think it took us like five hours to run the Narrows that day, I was stoked to get some solid Gorge time it was an amazing day on the Green. I took my Fish Eye lens along to capture the essence.
Check out Shane getting some serious shelf time in his garbage filled XP10
*Paddlers* Toby McDermott, Nik Haase and Jakob Keffer


I think it's fair to say I impressed myself with how well spring break went, it was pure bliss. Makes me look forward returning to the more illustrious living styles. Only a couple more weeks till I put my life in the van and drive west, be on the look out for some some Scumbags at the Lochsa to kick off the summer.

INJURIES SUCK // GET A FREE TSHIRT FOR YOUR PAIN

To the 17 people who may have noticed that the teamscum.com store is down, we apologize. Fact of the matter is, I broke the shit out of my leg and cant print, ship, wheel and/or deal. The x-ray photos pretty much speak for themselves.

So what does this have to do with you? If you've got a good injury photo send it in and if we post it on the site I'll send you a free Tshirt. Please email photos to 3scumbags@teamscum.com.