Thank you for that rule. Big mistake clearly made was having no rules/boundaries such as what you mentioned. We never really discussed the possible difficulties in detail, together. She was gathering information from people, I was gathering my own. We didn't sit down and really go over our expectations, our details and rules together. I see now how that could have changed things dramatically. Looking back today, we should have abandoned the hike prior to the switchbacks. We had already been hiking for almost 8-9 hours. I should have never gone on as clearly, she and I were in different places physically at that time.
Thank you for an extremely helpful rule that moving forward I will always have in place.
