You should be fine. I have a loggy and choose to use the rubber climbing pads rather then the metal cleats. Years ago I screwed up big time. I've posted this story in the past and will do it again.

I was in between classes at school and went to my local watering hole at the school to play darts for a few hours before my last class. When we left to go to class the weather broke from rain to a light drizzle. Perfect hunting weather. My motto "you can always retake a class but you can never relive a hunt" was alive and well. I had everything except my boots in the truck, but the temp was fine so I hunted anyway.

I screwed up and didn't angle my stand enough and my shoes were smaller then boots so I was killing the mechanics on how the stand works to climb. I was about 20' up and needed to go higher for the hunt when the next thing I knew I'm dropping like a rock slidding to the bottom. The stand did what it should and absorbed most of my fall. I adjusted my stand and hunted that night.

Inow always use the safety strap when climbing in the rain. I also try not to huntwithout boots. As far as skipping class to hunt, yes I would do it every timeit's agood hunting day.