Prudence: A Virtue of Consciousness

I was recently hiking with a friend in Switzerland and there's snow on the mountains for most of the year. And I've learned that going up is not the same as going down because when you're going up, you know, your momentum kind of carries you into the mountain. When you're going down, your momentum is carrying you kind of off the mountain as it were. It takes a pretty bracing reminder for me to turn around. But we got to the top of this thing and yeah, I realized that going down was going to be bad. We ended up going down on the other side, which landed us in another valley. So it was like two hours of transit that need