How safe are your sports?

Some people want to live forever. Sometimes I also fall into that category like many of you. In the past, Hang gliding, flying planes, riding motorcycles, rock climbing, Mountain climbing peaks 10,000 to over 14,000 foot peaks, running rapids in rivers, traveling around the world including trekking across long suspension bridges on foot in the wind or snow or rain in the Himalayas etc.

However, now I'm 67 and I've had a lot of amazing luck partly because I listen to my instincts and intuition. So, most things now including when I will feel it's okay to get on my KLR 650 dualsport made in 2009 are governed by how safe everything feels intuitively and instinctively. So, if everything isn't perfect I NEVER even get on the thing let along drive it out of the driveway. So, this vehicle is not for work but only for recreation for me. So, I can stay alive even at 67 while only doing this when I feel safe looking forward into time.

The same is true of skiing. Two days ago I went skiing for the second time in a week but realized my skis were sticking in the back woods in about 5 to 8 feet of snow about 6 inches of it new snow the night before. I realized I couldn't ski downhill on my mountaineering skis so I had already accepted at the top of the saddle I couldn't ski a few miles out to the opening to Lower Sand Flat Road. However, my friend was attached to skiing with me down this route we have skied together since about 1976 now as one of our two favorite routes, the other being to 7 mile curve which is a longer run.

However, as I said I couldn't ski because my skis were sticking to the snow he pulled out his white ski wax and said lift up one of your skis which I did. He promptly dropped the wax into the snow and couldn't find it because it was the exact same color as the snow. (why do they make ski wax the color of snow?)

Anyway, I had already accepted the fact that I wasn't going to ski the route that day so when he couldn't find the wax I was completely okay with that even though my friend wasn't.

I'm used to living that way with life giving me signs about what is useful to do all the time. Sometimes you will see a sign and know right away it has saved your life by one means or another.

Everything in life is timing. You can be doing the perfect right thing in your life in the wrong timing and you might die. Whereas 1 second before or after and it would have been okay and you might have lived through whatever it was.

Everything in life is timing.

So, if something doesn't feel right:

"For God's sake don't do it!"

By God's Grace