I am sitting outdoors in the wilderness and look across the lake and it is cloudy on the other side with bright lighting that has a little bit of radiant green in it. I wonder if I might be able to capture the lighting in a picture and run back to camp to grab my camera before the light changes. As I grab my camera and start heading out a goat comes down and starts heading towards camp. I worry that maybe I should try and protect the camp by chasing the goat away and then figure that probably he won’t actually bother anything and it is all right to go ahead and take my pictures.
[It wasn’t until after waking that I think this “wild” mountain goat was wearing a red plaid pack]
I don’t go back to exactly where I was sitting before because I want to take the shorter route towards the lake to get a picture more quickly with the lighting. Looking across the lake now there is a small village way on the other side and the lighting is an almost sunny brightness with the buildings mostly centered in it. I zoom up and take a shot but want to get a better angle to where I can get a shot of the whole lake.
I head back towards where I had been sitting before but there is a rock between here and there so I think maybe if I stand on the rock that would be a good angle for the picture. I walk around the back of the rock to the edge on the far side and start to climb up. My right hand is on the top and my left hand is on a little ledgy area just below. The right hand is solid rock but the left touches something soft an squishy. Must be a mossy spot. The rock doesn’t look very hard to climb up but I am holding the camera on my right wrist and suddenly get a little nervous about climbing up on it. It is not too hard but I decide I don’t want to do it so turn around. I had just easily walked around the rock on the way up but now the down route is a steep side with very little hand holds and missing spots on the tiny foot ledge. The logical part of my mind thinks “hey this was really easy and I had just walked up to here, why is is hard on the way down?” I think maybe it is easier than it looks but still it is daunting. I look the other way and it is a steep side off the front of the rock. I wonder if I climb up the part I didn’t want to climb up before if it would be easy on the far side but it doesn’t look like it. Stuck.
Another dilemma dream, these are an occaisional theme for me.