As much as I love being in the mountains

I think I’m too much of a pussy to be comfortable with driving mountain roads and parking in steep drive ways to ever live in the mountains

I get it’s a skill and you get used to it. But even the slightest drop in concentration and you’re fricked.

I was staying at a cabin over Thanksgiving that was 400 feet up a winding 1 lane sometimes dirt road with a steep drop off at all times. When I got there it was pitch black. And sometimes places the asphalt was fallen away. My arse was clenched the entire time. And sometimes the road was so steep I had to floor it a little bit to keep moving up.

Now as I said, I got better at it. But even then, there were a couple of times i felt like my car was leaning too much.

I can only imagine doing that in the rain. In the snow…I know my car couldn’t do it.

Doing that on a daily basis over years. All the more respect to mountain people.