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well put Dru! Being gracious and humbled by such an experience is great! and i am glad that you are ok, and i am sure the same thing wouldn't happen again.

Glad you are ok! I have seen many people fall there and get hurt because they did not stick clip. I sort of don't like it when people hassle others and try to get them to do something they feel is unsafe. (I know that wasn't the case with you)

I have given into peer pressure like that (twice) when I first started climbing and got seriously injured both times. I've learned my lesson. If my gut says "no," I will listen to that.

Some days you feel confident soloing a route, and others, you want to stick clip a move you've done previously with no problem. I think your gut knows best. F%*^ all the others who are on the sidelines, saying "go for it dude!" When you are not feelin' it.

When I was 19 I decked from 25 ft up the Beeneling over at Frenchburg. My foot slipped as I was five feet into the dihedral above the pillar at the base. I hit on the loamy soil at the base with my head narrowly missing this blade of stone sticking up.
Good experience. I walked away and got the shit scared out of me. That immediate view of my mortality has served me well since.

Dr. Schaeffer at UK ortho RULES.

it could be worse you could look like this.....



and you could be left with this....