The phrase ‘heuristic trap’ occasionally rears its head in conversations on mountain activity decision making. It’s likely we’ve all at some stage fallen into one or more of the traps, hopefully to survive and learn from it.
Good decision making is often acquired by experience rather than being formally taught, but here for those who are interested is an excellent article by Mountaineering Scotland on safely conducting days in the mountains along with an explanation of the phrase…
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