I think it's good etiquite to offer to replace, but you get to keep the dropped piece.
It's then good etiquite for the leader to say don't bother, unless you dropped it a really really long way.
Most of my rack has been dropped or abused in some horrible way. In terms of risk, my dodgy placements, poor stamina, shaking elvis legs, loose rock, seaguls, hangovers, poor belayers, poor communication, root finding, sun faded slings, route finding and plenty of other things are more likely to get me killed than some theoretical micro fracture....I'm not an engineer though so what do I know... |