While out climbing yesterday, I met some climbers who were cragging next to my partner and I and we found ourselves relating over the fact that this balancey move above a ledge with the draw below was scary. I have been lead climbing since I was a little kid (over 20 years!) and I still get spooked even in minimally consequential fall zones. Sometimes it’s just the day- the mood- contingent on the amount of sleep I had - how my body feels - what else is going on for me emotionally — and sometimes there’s just no real rhyme or reason to it. How do I deal with that fear? Often - especially in “minimally consequential fall zones,” which I deem as portions of a wall that you can take a big fall, and just land into the rope (why I say minimally is because there are always potential consequences in climbing, like most sports and frankly things in life) — I’ll take some predetermined falls to shake my mind out of the spiral. I’ll start small with just being slightly above my gear or bolt, ...