from Diary 2023-09-26 Arriving for two consecutive days of climbing.

  • It was a very good learning experience.
  • Climbing and descending mountain trails with a sore knee accelerates the learning iteration with Fail-fast because every movement that strains the knee immediately triggers a pain alert.
    • Sense of using the stock to stabilize and shift the center of gravity forward
    • The sensation of seeing a step that is too large to lift a normal foot and expecting severe pain, and then finding a path that can be climbed by a combination of small steps and carving it up.
      • This is similar to bouldering.
      • The first thing to recognize is, “I can’t reach this position.”
    • How to stabilize with stock on the way down
      • This one broke because I put too much weight on the cane before I was fully proficient.
        • Too much weight is not good, maybe in the long run the upper arm will not be able to bear it.
      • On the second day, I was just holding the branch from the side, so adjusting the length was easy, and this allowed me to experience the difference in the appropriate length for different situations.
        • Short climbs, long descents.
        • But the climbing and descending is so varied that I’m not sure how to go about it with an adjustable-length type of stock.

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