Month: September 2019

In previous posts, I broke down where to find reliable information, how to incorporate a knowledge of climate into your planning, and various means of determining what the weather will be like when you hit the trail. I even talked a bit about the sunk cost fallacy, a thinking error where we fail to recognize …

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You did it! You somehow managed to emerge from the Half Dome permit lottery with permits in hand. You've tried for three years to get those permits, and now you've finally managed to obtain what was starting to seem unobtainable. You plan for months and months, which includes multiple challenging day hikes designed to build …

Continue reading "The Hiker’s Handbook: The Sunk Cost Fallacy"