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Re: [bearbreeder] Backup an ATC Belayer:
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healyje
Oct 21, 2011, 1:31 AM
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bearbreeder wrote: healyje wrote: No one I climb with would ever drop anyone. Guaranteed. sorry .... but i call bull theres no way you can "guarantee" that absolutely ... you may THINK they wont ... but theres utterly no way you can guarantee it ... shiet can happen to anyone.
Man, if I believed a single word of that I'd quit climbing tomorrow. Really. When I say "absolutely", I mean absolutely guarantee a good belay.
Shite does not just "happen", incompetent people make shite happen. Incompetency isn't in the air, doesn't fall out of the sky to land on random people, and isn't visited upon us by chance in any other way. You are either competent to the task of belaying or you aren't. There is no gray in the matter.
That people like you would accept this as some sort of new 'reality' means climbing is way off the rails in general these days and expanding the demographic so rapidly over the past two decades was, in hindsight, quite unfortunate. That's because it means there are now a bunch of people climbing who shouldn't and never should have.
(This post was edited by healyje on Oct 21, 2011, 1:35 AM)
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Post edited by healyje
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