From: Johnlebl@aol.com
Date: Sun Aug 04 2002 - 00:51:46 CDT
In a message dated 08/03/2002 6:51:22 AM Central Daylight Time,
CoopWright@aol.com writes:
> I typically find myself encouraging crew members to
> drink more, not less, just because they are not coming close to the 5-6
> quarts that are recommended. It has worked for me, so I guess I will stick
>
> with it. I have yet to ever see anyone come off the trail, from my crew or
>
> any other, from drinking too much water.
>
You know Coop, until this past PhilTrek, I'd have said the same thing. I
never thought I'd see a person deliberately try to drink that much water.
Several times he said "I'm going to take Mark Andersons challenge to drink
two gallons and add another gallon to it". Sad thing is I was sitting in
that advisors meeting that Mark Anderson is supposed to have said that and
Mark Anderson never said that.
What we have here is a cook. I told you the guy was an idiot. Up until
being on the trail with him I thought like you do that we needed to encourage
people to "drink more water". Now I realize there is the otehr extreme.
Reading more I see it is not that unheard of either. So that has caused me
to realize taht a summary statement like "drink more water" or a silly
statement aby an unknowing advisor like "too much water never killed anyone"
may in fact be putting youth in harms way.
I'm not concerned with me personally because I have the experience and
knowledge like you have toi know what my body needs under a set of
circumstances. I've got mine down to a fine art and homeostasis is the
result. For inexperienced, this is not the case.
BTW, my opinion of "camel up" is a good one. I tried to present the concept
to the crew this year, but problem child idiot advisor argued against it
stating that each person should be responsible for themselves. With that
thought in mind, my daughter and I and her friend practiced "camel up,
refill, continuously rehydrate" via Camelback Unbottle 100oz" and were happy
with the body persormance and the convenience. We were never in a need for
water on the whole trek even on the last day from Clarks Fork across a dry
schaeffers and on to CHQ with a side hike to the tooth.
John LeBlanc
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