Chess game – The Trek

A ROUND OF PRACTICE

Utah cannons

In May, I had the opportunity to visit Utah and try their luck in a technical canyoneering with a friend of mine, an incredibly experienced outdoor man. With a hiking and rock climbing background, and a love for the desert, I had always wanted to try the cannon. However, I knew that there were great differences between a cannon trip and my previous backpack experience: how to sail in places where satellite signals are not reliable, self -evaluation on routes that require a total commitment and understanding of safety and risk in such a specific landscape. It is not a slightly undertaken form of recreation, so having my friend as a guide was incredibly crucial.

In the course of a week we cover Cedar Mesa, Bear’s Ears, San Rafael Swell and Glen Canyon Rec. Area, what happens through not less than four technical cannons and a handful of other walks that revealed ruins, wildlife and a charming mixture of petroglyphs and pictographs. I loved it! Pressing, pushing, pressing sandstone and heat makes me feel like a child in a gym. The resolution of problems in obstacles and falls created a satisfactory commitment in the most beautifully colored landscapes. A week of active jump from Canyon left me safe in my abilities and in my sense of self. I remember walking a few miles from a cannon, uphill through the burning sand and the hot sun, and I felt so strong when I met myself. All the tasks that I was eager to complete before my high season became cures molas in view of this desert mountain.

I don’t know what Shangri-La is waiting for me beyond the edge … Photo credit: Rick Spicer

Making movements

Go west

Developing the ability to Begin A walk It is one of the most difficult habits to grow. Many will speak, will plan, will pack, but for any reason, they will never reach the beginning of the path to walk. It is not without an excuse, making happen requires more than a backpack and a smile, although professional hikers make it look so easy. I find myself at the cusp of my season through and I have been strategies, looking at ten steps ahead, predicting the effect that my movements will have on others, all to rationalize the act of beginning.

My ability to start a new path or trip has been practiced and refined over time. Once my mind is about what my next movement is, I begin to align all the parts of my life in place to achieve it, such as configuring a chess game. Last week, I have said goodbye to friends, my community, I left a very good and respectable job, I moved from my place, I finished the construction of my car and fought through a break. Sounds silly, but I forgot how heavy it can be. No matter how many times I arranged, forgetting how heavy all the change is and how it weighs me now.

While I went to the west from Arkansas, I stopped to visit the family in Tulsa, OK. My first walk in Utah begins on July 18, so close … but to be honest, I still don’t feel relieved or excited. Maybe I should be floating in a cloud, or revigorized by my breaks from society, but I don’t. I feel nervous, tired and a bit sample. Here I am on the stage of my next hiking debut, and I am schedule. I am protecting my eyes from the brilliant focus on me, and all the faces of darkness watching and waiting for something excellent or terrible. This is something that very few hikers speak, but I think we all experience ourselves. As a hiker, I see myself like a do-e. If I am not doing the thing, then I am probably struggling to know who I am at any time.

At this time, my ability to start the Uinta Highline path means that I need to decompress at this time. I have been oriented to tasks and slave to the list of pending tasks for weeks. My chess game pawns have been taken one by one: the work, the rent, the boyfriend and all Arkansas is behind me. Now I can start bringing my gentleman forward three and more than one to live at the present time with his family in Oklahoma; Rehender three and more than one to visit the best friends in Kansas. I can stop trying to plan so far in the future and my brain can readjust in the happy approach at the moment of a trip through a trip.

When I am camping to the Uinta mountains, I trust myself to be in a better head space. I can clear the way for my queen to conquer because, for me, as soon as my foot reaches that first path at the beginning of the path, I have won the strategy game. I have done hard work to get there and everything there is after that is to walk.

You are in the award, my season to the future is about to start!

My next publication will be after the Uinta Highline path, probably from a place in Salt Lake City. Unhoeled me guys!

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