"I need a little help here!"

This area is called "Pioneer Names." It is called this because there are names written on the rock in axle grease dating back to the early 1800's. So we thought we would hike in and check it out. It was only about a half a mile.

As we arrived to the base of the rock, there were lots of people, kids included, who had hiked up to where the names were on the rock.  It look easy enough, so Scott lead the way, all 3 kids followed with Bob close behind. Personally, I was not really planning on going up.
So they all start to get pretty high and Deb and I are starting to get a little worried. I had a vision in my head of 1 of the kids falling backwards, tumbling down and us spending the rest of the day in the emergency room.
Scott decides he is going to go up first and see how it is. Now, just so you understand what kind of rock we are talking about -it was steep and smooth and there was really no trail to follow you just sort of climbed up the rock. Flat, smooth and slippery would be 3 great adjectives to describe it!
So Scott gets almost to the top, and he is just like an X plastered to the rock. And I can see that his feet are pointing in opposite directions and his fingers are clutching at the rock and I am beginning to wonder if this is a bad idea.  Meanwhile, all 3 kids are squatting on a little rock ledge! His feet begin to kind of slip and he says to the dad who is about 5 feet above him with his too young sons, " I think I need a little help here!"
So that guy reaches out, Scott gets his feet set and the rest of us breathe out the breath we all have been holding!
Later, when we were talking about it, Scott said he had this vision, which happened in a split second, of himself slipping and sliding down the rock, catching his foot on something and then tumbling backwards down the rock wall!  And he added that that vision in the heat of panic all happened in a split second.
I know it was a scary moment but it will be hard for him to live this one down!