Yesterday I rode thermals over mountain peaks for seven plus hours. Brilliant. But if I had crashed there would have been an on-line mob pointing out everything I did wrong (lots, so a pretty standard day for me and everyone if we look at it in hindsight). Few things annoy me more than hindsight keyboard warriors jumping into the post-accident fray with comments like, "Clearly idiots, nobody with a brain would do that!" These sort of comments annoy me first because they discourage discussion of accidents and near misses. In the good safety cultures I work with it's expected that errors will happen, and that positive, caring engagement will follow to reduce those errors in the future. Engagement, not attacks. In poor safety cultures, which I think most mountain sports have, the person/group having an incident is often publicly and privately shamed, which leads to relatively few wanting to share experiences that might help the many. Hindsight attacks and judgement leads to secrecy, and nothing good happens in secrecy. The important event isn't just the accident, it's how we as a community engage with it. Second, most of the people who attack those who do share their incidents are not actually active in the sport. They are keyboard experts, but not out in the field 100+ days a year. You don't see the real experts tossing shit bombs from a hindsight platform; they listen, empathize, learn, take time to understand what actually happened, and then maybe share some thoughts or incorporate that event into their own mountain practice. This morning I did an interview with @s_b_potter about the #edgeoftheunknown @Jimmychin series, which is all about going too far, really cool. Steve also wrote a solid story about rappelling off the end of his rope... We need a much better mountain safety culture, and that includes how our community shares and responds to incidents: With hindsight attacks, or constructive, human engagement. I applaud those who do the latter. Sir Donald/Rogers Pass in the photo, huge thanks to @gingliders for the new Explorer2, first flight was great!