RE: Do you use a safety strap while climbing?
It amazes me the people that are only thinking of themselves when it comes to whether or not to use a safety harness. Who cares what you think. Think of the people, friends, relatives that would have to take care of you if you were to fall. On Discovery Health channel they have a show called "Critical Hour". The other week the featured stories related to falls. One was a hunter who had fallen from a treestand. The showed his x-ray and you could clearly see where his vertabra were displaced severing his spinal cord. Paralyzed the rest of his life. Confined to a wheelchair. Do you think if he had the opportunity to do it all over again he would have a safety harness on?? Now his family has to take care of him for the rest of his life.
Is your family prepared to do this?
Use a safety harness so you don't have to find out.