Thanks Karen!
TG- You will get there, sounds like you are more experienced than me.
My "crash" was more a low speed fall into a pile of scrub brush. Mostly bruises but it still gets in your head because it isn't fun to land on your side/butt/back! The hill has been helped by the rain but it is still rooty so yippee me.
I did eat it trying a new hill but I laughed at that. I made it half up bailed out and then fell over because the hill was so steep I couldn't stand to unclip the other foot.
They don't call it The Wall for nothing.
Amanda
2011 Specialized Epic Comp 29er | Specialized Phenom | "Marie Laveau"
2007 Cannondale Synapse Carbon Road | Selle Italia Lady Gel Flow | "Miranda"
You don't have to be great to get started, but you do have to get started to be great. -Lee J. Colan