Thanks for the advice! I definitely have no shame in getting off my bike and walking- I’ve done that on some difficult climbs already. It turns out he was talking about a different trail which is more intermediate, so I’m not quite as intimidated (although I’ve wiped out twice on intermediate trails already…) I am also swapping my super-bouncy stock fork (Suntour XCT) for a Rockshox XC32TK solo air fork this weekend, which should improve the handling a lot.