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Stop saying 13-Jan-2015 At 5:20:03 PM One Day Hero

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On 13/01/2015 gnaguts wrote:
>Yeh but where does getting dropped by yer belayer due poor communication
>fit into ya hudt scale?

Going by the number accidents which happen this way, confusion regarding ones current state of belayedness is dangerous as fuch.
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>Seems like experience isn't enough and payin attention an being careful
>(uncommon sense?), should still be the go.

I suspect that a large percentage of the cunning cat-like survival instincts possessed by old fart climbers are impossible to teach, and instead can only be learned properly via a series of sphincter-clenching near misses. Maybe that's a cop out, but most of the climbers I know who are really situation-aware and competent have survived shocking fuch ups which their older self would never have allowed to happen.