Paralysis on a Red Rock Shelf
Hiking through Red Rocks, we must have veered slightly off the main path, and so we found ourselves having to shuffle up a semi-steep 10-20 foot shelf. It seemed doable, except when you look down and start thinking about how every step really matters but you wore the wrong shoes for this and so a slip could actually turn out pretty horribly. At that point, I got locked in a sort of paralysis, and the only way up was to not over think, but to sort of bear crawl up and hope for the best.