[pct-l] Drinking Water ...

[Melanie Clarke]

Dear PCT,

I always hike with those single serving packets of Crystal Light or Propel.
You can buy them at any grocery store.  They don't take up a lot of room in
your pack or weigh a lot.  I add one to a liter of water and it enables me
to hydrate properly.  Lemonade is always my favorite but other flavors are
nice once in a while also.

Melanie

On Sat, Jan 8, 2011 at 5:40 AM, Gerry Zamora <gerry0625 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Too funny.  I can so relate.
> On Jan 8, 2011 12:33 AM, "jason moores" <jmmoores at hotmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Outpost,
> >
> > I know what you mean, I spent 18 years drinkin nothin but beer and
> bourbon
> because I couldn't stand the taste of water. Unfortunately it didn't
> work-out as well for me as I had hoped. That's a story for another list
> though.
> >
> > My first time on the trail, in '06, I hopped on at Tehachapi Pass the
> third week of June. In hindsight this was both a bad place and time to
> start. My massive pack was loaded down with three gallons of water and
> perhaps thirty five pounds of food. I had read somewhere that I would burn
> between 6,000 and 8,000 calories a day on the trail, so I decided to carry
> 8,000 just to play it safe. My two massive food bags were stuffed with
> every
> type of trail food imaginable. Everything except something to improve the
> taste of my water. I did have some Nido and Nestle's though.
> >
> > By the end of the first day of hiking I was getting pretty sick of the
> taste of warm water. The next day wasn't any better. I would spend hours
> fantasizing about cold beverages of every brand and flavor. Thinking about
> a
> rootbeer float was the only thing that pushed me up the long and dry climb
> to Robin Bird Spring. The miles ticked by and the water sources in the
> Piute
> Mountains proved to be cool and refreshing. For a time I enjoyed the taste
> of water again(though it may have been the pain pills that I was poppin
> like
> Pez due to the pain in my feet). That ended when I reached the Kelso
> Valley.
> When I arrived at the Kelso Road cache I found about 100 empty gallon jugs
> tied together. I was able to gather about a liter from the dregs of the
> jugs, and decided to take a long break in the shade of a Joshua Tree. This
> teppid water had such a strong taste of plastic that I could barely bare to
> drink it. Finally I did the only thing that I could think of, I made a big
> ol' bottle of c
> > hocolate milk. It was so damn goooood.
> >
> > So along come three "back of the pack" thrus hurrying down the trail to
> reach the cache. I could hear their cussing when they discovered the cache
> empty. The next water was many miles further along. Eventually they noticed
> me sitting alone under my Joshua Tree and came by to say hi. Now let me
> tell
> ya, these three fellas were more than a little bit shocked to see me
> sitting
> there drinkin my chocolatey milk in the 100+ degree afternoon. They used
> the
> term crazy more than a few times and I seem to remember a certain curse
> word
> proceeding crazy. I could just imagine their conversation later that day
> about the jolly fat guy sittin stoned in the desert, so happy to be
> drinking
> anything other than water.
> >
> > Best damn chocolate milk ever.
> >
> > Jackass
> >
> >
> >> Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 19:32:36 -0800
> >> From: paulrobisonhome at yahoo.com
> >> To: pct-l at backcountry.net
> >> Subject: [pct-l] Drinking Water ...
> >>
> >> Who here hates drinking water?
> >>
> >> i've never liked it. i'll go 3 weeks or more between tastes of water. i
> get my
> >> liquids from things like orange juice.
> >>
> >>
> >> i see people on the trail who tank up at water sources and they'll drink
> a liter
> >> of water. i begin to gag after about three swallows of the stuff.
> >>
> >> anyways my new years resolution is to train myself to drink water. i'm
> actually
> >> making myself drink a bottle of water before i can open a beer after
> work
> ; )
> >> i'm hoping i can get myself to the point that i can drink insane amounts
> like
> >> the other people i saw out there.
> >>
> >> ... the funny thing is, on the trail; i guess my body knew i needed it
> because
> >> i didn't have a problem drinking water as long as i did it slowly.
> >>
> >> Does it really save anything to sit and drink 2 liters of water at a
> water
> >> source? the weight is still in you (your belly etc) ... does your body
> process
> >> it just as efficiently? do you guys tank up before a long dry stretch?
> how
> >> much water do you down before you move on?
> >>
> >> thanks for the info,
> >> ~Paul
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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