After an outdoor karate workout in August, while we were walking off the field, a friend started expressing surprise that a classmate was still working out, and how is she doing that? Nobody else could see her. We got him inside fast. Later, he explained that he was very vividly hallucinating her doing continual spinning kicks while balancing on a fencepost.
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Absolutely - I have long felt and strongly agree with this. In many ways it’s been even worse for the world than social media (or at least, the torrent of terrible that social media has wrought was worsened by following hard on the heels of the Reality TV phenomenon). IMHO.
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Yikes! I started to sweat really bad and my temples were throbbing so bad my glasses wouldn’t stay on my face.
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And then your body runs out of sweat, and you die.
It’s scary to think about how much energy is carried away by a liter of evaporated sweat. Take a camp stove, put a pot with a liter of water in it, crank that burner up all the way, and wait… My Coleman is ~7,500 BTUs, and it would probably take 15 minutes to boil it dry.
eta: The human sweat cooling system is amazing, but don’t demand miracles.
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Well, I seem to recall one of their slogans was “Hydrate or DIE!”, but I’m probably mistaken.
If I’m fool enough to go hiking in the central Arizona valley, IN SUMMER, I’m hauling around at least a full gallon on water, wearing sun block, and a large-brimmed hat. However, I’m not doing that because I don’t have that sort of death wish. (the smart people out here wait until fall before going hiking up a mountain, even if it IS in the middle of the city…)
Right. There was a show titled ‘Property Brothers’ that I always read in my head as Property Bothers’, as it was more fun that way.
Turned out that those two were later revealed to be not such nice folks as they portrayed.
“Long before they were TV stars, Jonathan and Drew began earning a meager income as clowns” That makes them suspicious right there these days.
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Yeah, reality tv is already cheaply produced and reckless with people’s lives, but religious tv is almost certainly ultra-low budget and totally lacking in any kind of safeguards.
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And, I hope, a long-sleeved lightweight shirt over at least a light cotton undershirt. With full-length lightweight pants over a light water-trapping baselayer. My summer wardrobe (from before I moved to Montana) is mostly REI Safari khakis for that reason. A bit pricy, but they’re durable and cool even working outdoors in 45 degree heat.
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Camelback is the craziest hike despite being the most popular in PHX. I did it around this time of year, arriving as the darkness turned to dawn, yet had to walk nearly a mile on city streets to the trail because all the street parking was already taken by throngs of hikers. By the time the sun was up it was already too hot to feel good about hiking the clogged trails.
God botherers didn’t do their research? Why am I not surprised?
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My neighbor died last year due to a heat exhaustion related heart attack. He was mowing his lawn in the morning, but it was already pretty hot. Unfortunately he collapsed in his backyard and wasn’t discovered for several hours.
He was a good person, and it was a very sad loss to his family, friends, and neighbors.
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Even if they’d brought more water I wouldn’t bet against a bad outcome.
I had a deeply unpleasant run-in with oral rehydration therapy as a kid when my family was vacationing somewhere much warmer and sunnier than I was used to: our water supply was ample; but my perception of thirst wasn’t 100% reliable and I was wholly unused to losing electrolytes in sweat so quickly even when idle. I just went from feeling fine, if hot, to being dubiously lucid and getting shoved full of ORT without ever really noticing the transition; and I was just lying around on a boat, not distracted by hiking related muscle pain or anything.
Having water would certainly beat running out of it; but I wouldn’t be thrilled by the odds of heat-stressed amateurs even with it, especially packaged such that it’s really easy to keep your mouth feeling nice and ■■■■■ with teeny little sips on demand that don’t actually add up to sufficient consumption to replace losses.
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“The Lord will provide (water and shade).”
“Thanks, but I’ll bring my own just in case.”
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