I'm so scared of that happening that when I lower my bow to the ground, I leave my hoist rope attached to my harness. That way, no matter where I am on the tree, I can pull it back up to me if need be.

Sorry to hear about the morning. I do know what you mean about the cold, though. Last night, I had the buck I've been after standing across a 10' wide creek at dusk 30 yards away. It's the fifth straight time I've seen the 140-class buck: I've had him at 60 yards, 50, 40, 20, saw him at the same place as the 20-yard sighting, though I was trying to outsmart him and was 150 yards away. I was running out of daylight, so I grunted at him, hoping he would think it was one of the 11 deer out in front of me sending an invite. It didn't work. In fact, it put him on edge, and he stood frozen right in that very spot for thirty more minutes. So I didn't get to get down from my stand until about forty-five minutes after dark last night.

Oh yeah. He eventually did cross the creek and walk right under me. All I could see was a tail, twenty minutes after sunset.