Board 8 > I nearly died at the Grand Canyon this week.

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I'm still waiting for the last lingering numbness to leave my fingertip.

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But they are so cool looking

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Forceful_Dragon posted...

I'm still waiting for the last lingering numbness to leave my fingertip.

Have you seen a doctor yet? There is an antivenom available, something out of Mexico.

Uglyface2 posted...

Have you seen a doctor yet? There is an antivenom available, something out of Mexico.

I'm sure the venom left his system ages ago and this is just nerve damage as a result of it

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Yeah it's supposed to fade with time and the antivenom is really only meant in situations where it can be quickly applied and where the chance of lethality is higher. For an adult male the chance of death is incredibly low so even if I had magically been somewhere that carried the stuff I doubt it would have been used. Wikipedia says there have only been 2 recorded fatalities in arizona since 1968.

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yup

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Final bump for posterity

Finger no longer feels tingly btw, so that's done.

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I recommend avoiding Arizona from like April to October in the future

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the North Rim is closed during most of the other months :/

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Also sorry FD I meant to post in this topic asking for you to not try to die in the next year of your life but I didn't even realize 8/4 had passed already.

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So I'm allowed to die again already? Or do I need to wait a full year?

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No dying.

Just virtual dying. Preferably by waterfall.

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Seriously though, be smarter about your next major hike

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It sounds like your everyday California hikes/walks may have made you overconfident.

I think 7:45 was far too late a time to start a hike like this if you expected to complete the whole thing in one day. You should have started at like... 4:30 so that at least a portion of your hike back would not be under a merciless Arizona sun. Hiking around your neighborhood, even in hot daylight, is nothing like hiking uphill in a national park during summer.

Speaking from recent experience here. I walk in the daytime frequently in Las Vegas, but it's in the privileged ass suburbs, so I rarely need to truly exert. Last week, I hiked Angel's Landing in Zion with my brother, and in preparation for the heat, we started at about 7:15 and ended before 9:30. Seriously, this was a baby compared to your hike - a little over 4 miles round trip and only about 1000 feet of elevation gain. Despite this, we both agreed that the people who'd start at noon were gonna wreck themselves, as even during 9:30, that summer Utah sun was no joke.

You had hours of July Arizona sun to deal with while navigating the ass-end of 3500 feet of elevation gain. I hope they plaster danger warnings everywhere for this hike, especially the uphill portion, as summer sun in that situation can sap a person's strength in like 15 minutes, let alone 5 freakin miles. Also, I disagree with the estimate that the uphill portion would only take 3 hours. That elevation gain is crazy, and to attempt it in midday, you might only be covering a mile an hour. I probably would have done what Ngamer said and camped overnight, aiming to start the hike back before dawn. Anything else just sounds like a miserable experience to me.

All in all, I'm glad you're ok! Certainly glad that the scorpion sting seems to have healed completely.

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CaptainOfCrush posted...

You had hours of July Arizona sun to deal with while navigating the ass-end of 3500 feet of elevation gain.

A good chunk of the walk back up is in the shade of the canyon walls after noon so that helps.

But yes there were many signs that advised against going further than the distance that we went to in a single day.

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