[EricH]

Originally Posted by BJC

Don't be. The difference between what teams think they can do and what they can actually do has always been quite large.

I am willing to bet that the ratio of unintentional 20-point climbs to intentional 20-point climbs will be quite high. Ditto for the unintentional to intentional 10s. We won't talk about the other unintentional--the zero-point non-belayed one--other than to say, ouch.

And yes, I've noticed that optimism is always contagious, at least until Thursday at the regional and possibly even Saturday at the regional. Then reality sets in, often sometime around lunch.