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| | Hiking | 15.00 Miles | 9 Hrs 30 Mns | | 1.58 mph |
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| no partners | | Well, interesting day out doing more exploratory canyons and ridges. I approached RockaChucky Wash below the obstructing waterfall today, just to check it out. I noted that it could be scaled up a loose talus scree slope, then an easy climb up the left side. Well, easy for someone other than me. As I began the climb I froze up... a simple lateral movement with good footings (though rotten rock) had more exposure than I could take. Irrational as it was, a slip would have resulted in a 20' fall and a 30' tumble... there would not have been a slip, but those of us susceptible to that kind of fear are sort of nailed with that emotional overflow. Still, I could not see retracing and downclimbing, so I moved down to where I would not have to move across, and just charged up the face, so much adrenalin flowing that I failed to notice that I climbed 25' higher than needed, and had to downclimb to get back to the level of the waterfall ledge...
... that couple of minutes left me drained and oddly altered for the rest of the day's venturing. My sense of exposure was way over the edge after that, and though I was doing a hike that had 5 miles of cliff edges, I found the day filled with me moving too many feet away from those edges, and getting nearly dizzy when I accidentally drifted near an edge as I was taking pics.
I've had a history of acrophobia... no problems if I can be on a rope, or even jumping out of a plane, but at it's worse, I can get irrational on the easiest climbs if there is an open sense of exposure. Now, if all climbs were just in chimney structures...
Think I may have found a few potential additional access routes for this Mesa... would be nice since the private property owners have closed off the traditional access routes. I'll be going back up (...sans waterfall route) to check those potentials out. |
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