What comes to mind when I read the dream is the woman may by symbolic of a female authority figure in your own life. Perhaps there is something you've recently said or done that you wondered what would....(fill in the blank) think or say about this?

Whatever it is, it was easy to do at first because of the fairly easy climb from your dream. Then you thought about it, and you thought about possible consequences, hence the stumbling down the hill after looking into the eyes of the old woman.