Mr Hillbasher, I'm glad you're back, chilly but unscathed
And I detect you're using the forum as a kind of public confessional, so I guess you've absorbed more than any post event advice can add
And as you say you're an experienced mountaineer, I guess you know the saying 'more people die of embarrassment than accident' - that is, continuing out of unwillingness to appear overcautious
But from my own viewpoint, I suffer from your thread title 'smart by this time' - I suffer from 'I used to be able to do this stuff, and by gosh I'm smarter now' - when neither clause is supported by evidence
