But, as the film opens, she's come to a kind of dead end mid-journey: On a rock ledge on the trail, somewhere in the mountains, she sheds her hiking boots to tend to her ravaged feet (she's about to lose the toenail from her big toe) - when she accidentally loses one of her hiking boots over a precipice.
And there were many ledges along the trail with natural human-scale back rests and some glacier-scoured stone that made ideal picnic table, provided we kept a careful eye on the children and one adult photographer, making sure they didn't lurch too close to eternity.
"It appears as though the snake has initially crawled up inside the landing bay, maybe housed himself in there, and then crawled into the trailing ledge flap assembly," Paul Cousins, the president of the Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Association, explained to the outlet.
Jeff Mitchell writes in Hiking the Endless Mountains: Exploring the Wilderness of Northeast Pennsylvania that Ganoga Glen has his "favorite place" in the park: "Here the trail wraps around ledges and underneath overhanging rocks, right next to the waterfalls.
A stunning segment of the trail winds along a ledge halfway up the cliff, right up to the spray of the waterfall, and then disappears into what looks like a cave before re-emerging in the spray on a ledge on the other side.
The trail dead-ends at Stony Ledge with panoramic views of the wilderness area.
We were behind the thundering, 500-foot Kapoloa Falls in a remote northern valley on the Big Island of Hawaii, clinging to a ledge that was part of the Kohala Mountain trail system built in 1905.
After a couple of hours, I reached the Gyejoam Buddhist hermitage, built on a rock ledge at the base of a steep trail that leads up to Ulsanbawi rock, the bare-rock mountaintop that's one of the most famous picture postcard vistas in Korea.
If I am on a isolated mountain trail, faced with an icy ledge to cross, and do not know whether I can make it, I may be forced to consider the question whether I can or should believe that I can cross the ledge.
