Hiking things that are difficult:
- Completing miles 11-12 of a long hike
- Carrying a 20- or 30-lb backpack
- Teetering on jagged edges of unstable rocks
- Downclimbing a steep rockslide, -2000 ft over 1 mile
- Finding trail markings in dense night fog with <10 ft visibility
Hiking that is downright treacherous: Doing all of those things simultaneously. Continue reading The Treacherous Traverse