You can plan your day down to the last detail—wake-up time, pace, weather window, snack breaks—and the mountain will still do what it wants. It took me a few treks to stop taking that personally. In the beginning, I’d get thrown off by the smallest shift—rain an hour early, energy dips that didn’t match my timing, trails that looked nothing like the ones I’d studied. I thought if I just prepared harder, I could predict the experience. Make it neat. Keep it under control. But the mountains aren’t interested in my checklists. They’re not …
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