jsh
Mar 22, 2011, 9:54 PM
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Spike, glad you're okay.
If this incident gave you any new insight into figuring out whether a belayer really is solid or not, I'd love to hear it.
Certainly, you thought he was, and he wasn't. Just upthread, we have "I'm 100% solid on the belay ... I just took my hand off to itch my foot" A nontrivial number of people self-assess and report themselves as competent, when in fact they are not. So the crucial thing is to figure out who these people are before you give them your rope. Any insight you have on that, now, is helpful. Can you see anything in 20/20 hindsight that might have warned you?
Love the Don Cheadle quote. perfectly apt.
(This post was edited by jsh on Mar 22, 2011, 9:55 PM)
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