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calcaneal (heel) fracture from climbing fall 27-Sep-2012 At 10:39:57 PM PThomson

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On 27/09/2012 davidn wrote:
>On 27/09/2012 One Day Hero wrote:
>>There's optimism, then there's denialism
>
>Emo

Valid criticism or not, we all know ODH is a $#!t-stirrer in his deliberately over-the-top responses.

I'm definately not an optimist (those who climb with me will vouch that I'm a pretty notorious pessimist), but as I said -in that particular instance- the cloud DID have a silver lining and it changed my perspective on certain aspects of safety (I've always been safe, but that accident proved that I should never relax in that regard, because its still possible to make mistakes), and also it essentially jump-started what was becoming a stagnant progression on the climbing curve of difficulty.

Are there better ways to learn these things? Of course there bloody well are, but how long might it have been before I learned them. And seriously, what is a few months off (serious) climbing in the face of a jump in both grades and personal outlook. And besides, Humans learn by making mistakes, your mummy might have told you the stove is hot, but until you burned yourself for the first time you never REALLY knew, did you?

I believe that the ultimate positive outweights the negative in that instance, and my hope is that Eve finds the same bit of luck.

I also hope that ODH learns how to correctly parse information from forum posts in a way that permits logic to feed into his interpretation, rather than his obscure subjectivity... But THAT is a real pipe dream.

AFTERWORD: Ironically, yesterday night -after making my previous post- I partially tore my hamstring tendon where it joins onto the pelvis while trying to throw off a very high heel-hook, and am being told that I could well be out of action for 5-7 weeks... All this 2 days before a long weekend, and a Point Perp trip the following weekend. More evidence that Murphey's Law exists.