Slow Exposure and the Fear of Swimming Coliseum by Dan Meisenheimer

Last week we ask swam Coliseum. It overall was pretty fun and everyone’s was ok, but standing on the rock at the top was terrifying. My first year at Keeners, I was freshly traumatized off of a bad swim, and I hated swimming. I was very scared of swimming mais and got a bad headache afterwards. When I found out that Keeners sometimes swim Coliseum, I had decided that if anyone told me to do that, I would say no. Over the years, I swam more big rapids and slowly over time improved my confidence until the point where I could now gauge rapids based on actual risk instead of fear. I then realized Coliseum wasn’t so bad, it was just big, and that’s how I worked up the storage to swim Coli.