Self-Arresting

Careening down the mountain head first while lying on your back, your job is to stop yourself from plummeting to your death by digging your ice axe into the snow-while not ripping your arm out of its socket or accidentally getting your crampon snagged so you don't break an ankle. This was all new to me. As was crevasse rescue. These were beginner climbing skills. BEGINNER. Again, I just practiced them with the rest of the Intro group because I was on auto-pilot. Talk about foreign concepts! But sometimes it's just good to "do things". I'm a calculated risk taker, but there comes a point where you've researched something all you can and then next step is to just "DO". It's kind of like taking the first step out of a plane when you go skydiving. Just take that first step, because once you take it, you can't change your mind and step backwards into the plane. You have to deal with what's in front of you right then and there. Sometimes you have to trust the universe.