You could utilise a bike then to munch out the kms on the fire trail. Leaving them at the gate.crollsurf wrote:Thanks Huntsman, you've got me motivated to get back down there. Might try a loop and come back to Sassafras via Quilty/Hidden Valley instead of heading to Wog Wog
I'd be interested to hear what getting to pagoda rocks is like. Or what the way down between Sturgiss & Elliot is like if you explore up there. Every time I've gone to the valley (4 times now) it's rained with no visibility so I've never bothered with it and just kept going.insect_eater wrote:Thanks huntsman for the detailed report and set of nice pics. I've decided to head in to Hidden Valley area this weekend rather than the Corang area, as I've realised that neither of us have been there.
Sorry to hear! Sounds like you need taller boots. Lol. Hope it heals up quickly.insect_eater wrote:We did have glorious weather - still and sunny - even warm - and didnt want to leave the top of quilty's mountain, but alas, i rolled an ankle badly (tendons snapping with a crack) on a little hidden lyrebird-scratched undercut on the track just before the hidden valley turnoff. My first trail injury in four decades of hiking. After a restless night i limped and rode (one-legged) back to the car with single-minded determination after much joking about where choppers could land or the height of tree and density of canopy that the could winch through, and how to wangle it that the pack wasnt left behind. Regardless, it was a beautiful way to spend an election weekend. So i didnt get to explore around Sturgiss, or even get to Styles creek. Ill be back to do that and to look for my custom tooth guard that i must've droped some where on the track (in a small snaplok bag).
Huntsman247 wrote:Sorry to hear! Sounds like you need taller boots. Lol. Hope it heals up quickly.
Gumboots are the solution! Lolinsect_eater wrote:Huntsman247 wrote:Sorry to hear! Sounds like you need taller boots. Lol. Hope it heals up quickly.
Thanks, it seems to be on the mend Surprisingly, i was wearing my stiff full leather full height Raichle mountain boots, any taller would be a plastic mountaineering boot. I cant imagine what i would have done to my ankle if i was only wearing a mid height boot - lucky i dont own anything that short.....
insect_eater wrote:Neither the nurses who assessed it (who said cracks/snaps were usually tendons/ligaments), nor the physio (who didn't do a full assessment) mentioned anything about surgery. Maybe I've mixed my tendons and ligaments up? Or should I be getting another opinion?
rcaffin wrote:All tendons and ligaments usually heal without surgery, even the achilles tendon.
This is I am afraid completely wrong - as it stands.
IF all you have done is strain the tendon or ligament then it should heal over time. You will limp around for a while.
However, IF you have snapped the tendon or ligament, then it will NOT heal without surgery. Having snapped an archilles tendon once, long ago, I KNOW about this. A plaster-cast for a month or so. (I was lucky and had a very good surgeon for the op - a long story with some black humour.)
OP said there was a 'crack', but that it healed over time. This sounds as though it could have been a ligament being pulled over a bone, rather similar to 'cracking your knuckles', and consistent with the medical response. That would be a strain, and the most 'fortunate' case. If so, lucky!
Cheers
Roger
rcaffin wrote:All tendons and ligaments usually heal without surgery, even the achilles tendon.
This is I am afraid completely wrong - as it stands.
IF all you have done is strain the tendon or ligament then it should heal over time. You will limp around for a while.
However, IF you have snapped the tendon or ligament, then it will NOT heal without surgery. Having snapped an archilles tendon once, long ago, I KNOW about this. A plaster-cast for a month or so. (I was lucky and had a very good surgeon for the op - a long story with some black humour.)
OP said there was a 'crack', but that it healed over time. This sounds as though it could have been a ligament being pulled over a bone, rather similar to 'cracking your knuckles', and consistent with the medical response. That would be a strain, and the most 'fortunate' case. If so, lucky!
Cheers
Roger
rcaffin wrote:So non-surgical repair of a full rupture is highly unlikely, although non-surgical repair of a partial tear could be realistic.
FionaShedden wrote:
Interested to hear about the track off near Yurnga Lookout. Not one I was aware of...my old sketch map shows a line of cliff/outcrop around that area that isn't on the topo - maybe another good camp cave up there?
Sorry meant murrumbooee falls (I think)Walk_fat boy_walk wrote:FionaShedden wrote:
Interested to hear about the track off near Yurnga Lookout. Not one I was aware of...my old sketch map shows a line of cliff/outcrop around that area that isn't on the topo - maybe another good camp cave up there?
Curious about that as well. Might have to check it out next time I'm up that way. Cave suggestion is a logical one... Alternatively maybe (admittedly without consulting a map) could lead to a view of the somewhat reclusive Murrurundi (?) Falls.
Brilliant report btw - thanks
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Walk_fat boy_walk wrote:No I mean Murrumbooie falls (with an ie not ee... Wasn't sure of the spelling) at the head of Murrumbooie Creek, a tributary of the Yadboro. Munnuldi falls (which I do know about) is up near Folly Point. Google doesn't know everything.
Murrumbooie is on the topo. lolWarin wrote:Walk_fat boy_walk wrote:No I mean Murrumbooie falls (with an ie not ee... Wasn't sure of the spelling) at the head of Murrumbooie Creek, a tributary of the Yadboro. Munnuldi falls (which I do know about) is up near Folly Point. Google doesn't know everything.
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