[pct-l] your experiences with fear on the trail

[Hillary Schwirtlich]

My scariest moments were usually fears having to do with people that were
totally unwarranted. I would get nervous when we camped somewhere where
people could easily drive up, like under the I-5 overpass after Fuller
Ridge, and then once in NoCal when we camped at the end of a dirt road near
a spring, or when we slept next to the Wind River Highway. A thought (like
"the Zodiac killer") would pop into my head and then I'd have trouble
calming myself down. Needless to say, nothing happened.

The rivers were scary and all, and Mather was sketchy, and being near
hypothermia in northern Washington was pretty scary, but I usually could
just switch off the fear in my brain to deal with those circumstances
better. It was the people I couldn't calm myself down about.

Seahorse

On Sat, Dec 31, 2011 at 1:08 PM, <treerings at gmail.com> wrote:

> A group of mules visited our campsite around 2am. They almost stepped on me
> (or so it seemed). They kept us up all night because one of them had a
> loudly clanging bell. Truth be told, there were kinda cute. Mule eyes glow
> silver-green in the head lamp.
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 6:53 PM, <p-gottschalk at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > Would you share with us where and how you felt fear on the trail?
> > As a newbie I'm very appreciative of this forum. Thank you so much.
> > Paul
> >
> >
> >
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