Oh Bill...
I believe I take the stupid award of the week. I was mountain biking with a buddy on a technical trail with some large exposures and we got through the tricky parts (most of them...). I pulled off a really cool move down a little technical step and was yapping to my buddy about it when my front wheel got wedged into a rock. I was stopped instantly and immediately started losing balance. Also, I had paid too much attention to the conversation to notice the 8' cliff (that's about 2.5m to you metric people) that I proceeded to fall over.
I ended up tumbling around 20'-25' (call it ~7m) with the roll-out at the end, landing (MIRACULOUSLY) on a sloper rock, missing an old tree trunk and the majority of sharp rocks, sliding right onto the trail which switched-backed below us. Got a gash on my right wrist, charlie horses on my right quad and left calf, and a bit of rock rash on my back, shins and knee. I also took a hell of a direct shot to my helmet (which will now be replaced) and knocked apart my front derailleur shifter.
I walked away and everything was functional. I was in awe. I had been thinking about broken legs, head trauma, internal bleeding on my way to the ground but I came out (relatively) unscathed. Since all was good, we made quite light of the situation with a bunch of pics. It could have been MUCH worse.
The moral- don't get distracted, don't lose focus, wait til you're done to shout out your triumphs, and if you're gonna stack it, make sure you have a soft place to crash.
The other moral- Make sure you're riding partner is an ER doc
staged aftermath
top looking down
bottom looking up
(I'm the genious in the bright jacket, and my apologies for thread drift)