But isn't it dangerous?

That's what people ask me all the time.
The answer is simple:
It's more dangerous than staying at home.

People get killed on bicycles and in cars, by murderers and by falling coconuts.

The risk to get murdered in the midwest or rocky mountains isn't higher than where I live, there's no reason to doubt that.

The only risk I see is the risk of traffic accidents.
I take that risk, like mountaineers take the risk of avalanches and pilots take the risk of engine failure.

In the rare event of getting killed by a car, I died doing what I loved most.