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Being conscious of objective danger ...
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...there's the whole 'unconscious competence' thing - the state you get into when you can do something perfectly without thinking about it.

Then there's being paralysed by fear...

Then there's being truly competent in thinking through what a given situation presents by way of risk. At a macro 'yes...this wiil GO today....' the decision making of Cody Townsend in The Fifty is just excellent. And the episode where he takes you through the beta judgements is great. A day is ON when the objective risks can be managed.

At a micro level we had a wakeup call on a forest tour ascent at Vercorin a couple of days ago....lovely day...trail in condition...then as the Grom went above and around a tree he went onto a 2m ball of water ice, lost traction and fell towards the tree - only a couple of metres, but if he had landed face first on one of the summer-baked spikes which those pines have in plenty, then there would have been dire injury. A simple miscalculation, a forgetting of the risks of tree spikes when traversing....

So many things to keep in mind....meteo, transceiver batteries, down layer, avi specifics, terrain traps....etc etc - but that's the fun of The Game.
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