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bumbly blues ..... 30-Mar-2004 At 4:16:36 PM shmalec

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Hey Terry.....this feeling you have is part of the deal!

A lot of factors affect your emotional state while climbing. You will find your emotions always fluctuate somewhere between scared shitless and complete confidence. It doesn’t just depend on how much gear you have in or what grade the climb is.

I still get the feelings you describe after leading hundreds of pitches. Controlling your head is part of the challenge. The amount of RECENT climbing I’ve done affects my emotions as much as the grade I’m climbing. I found hearing about all the recent deaths in the NZ Alps had a great effect on my climbing confidence on a recent trip there.

The more experience you get the less often it will happen and the more capable you will be at pushing through it.