Steep Trail in the Early Morning

It is quite a transition to move from the "normal" mostly level world we live in to the high mountains where the landscape becomes mostly vertical. We start climbing in the middle of the night and it is only when it begins to be light that we can see where we are. Climbing with a headlamp does not give you much of a perspective since you can only see a few feet in front and nothing at all to the sides of where you are walking. Life is sort of like that. But in climbing, you get the dramatic long view as the sun comes up and in life, you seldom get the long view.