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Wearing helmets 28-Sep-2009 At 3:20:24 PM Guniea Sauras Rex

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I wear mine all the time; my partner only wears his occasionally when trad climbing.

I am always surprised by the amount of people who don't wear their helmet at the bottom of the crag. All my direct hits and near misses have been when I have been standing around at the bottom of the cliff or belaying.

The time I had to go to hospital was the time my helmet was not on my head - but on my bag near my feet :( I was belaying at the time and the climber was not yet high enough so that you had time to see where the missile was going.

Cracks to the noggin are no fun. They wrap up your head like you are an escaped mental patient and getting to sleep with an inflamed scalp with stitches is very difficult - there is no comfortable place to put your head