The Danger of the vacation mindset in the Backcountry

Walking on the ridge of Glacier Basin in a total whiteout

We have all heard “The Mountains will be here tomorrow” but when on vacation people are thinking “But I won’t” and it seems people put added pressure on themselves to ride that one line they have been dreaming of since they had booked there tickets and that is the danger of the vacation mindset in the backcountry. In the past I have personally felt that pressure and I thought I would give a an example of when I went for it and had to pay for it and another time that I had to change my plans but found it really hard to do so because my time in an area was limits.

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