You're young, fit and familiar with the landscape and risks so it's much less of an issue but I do still find it useful especially as the length of the track and difficulty rating aren't always correlated.

Thanks Ryan, Costa Rica must have been fabulous!

The snake bites in Oz versus gun deaths in the US is a brilliant comparison.

We spent 6 weeks in a remote Costa Rican jungle late last year. Fer de lanzes, eyelash vipers and other potentially dangerous snakes littered the place. But I felt safer there versus walking through my home town at night. Because the snakes don't have a grudge, nor access to firearms 😉 Just protecting themselves while gun toting folks usually have some nasty motivators to pulling the trigger.

Thanks for the cool read!

Ryan