Re: [at-l] Winter Camping Advice

["W F Thorneloe, MD" <thornel@attglobal.net>]

The man speaks wisdom!

It is why it is essential to really plan on bunches of calories of food 
when winter hiking or camping. Your shivering burns a bunch of calories, 
and calories have to have hydration to burn well (especially if fat is much 
of the diet).

Anyway, hypothermia isn't so bad once you get past the shivering. Then you 
can take your clothes off and really confuse the folks who try to fit you 
in the body bag (and I don't mean a bivy).

OrangeBug
Atlanta, GA

At 05:33 PM 2/23/2000 -0500, Thomas McGinnis wrote:
>### I think your extended and vigorous exercise depleted your 
>easy-availibility energy stores for the day, and that widdle Lyptons 
>barely made a dent in restoring your fuel/hydration stores. (That "Wasn't 
>really hungry" part tends to make me think you were just plain exhausted.) 
>The combination of cold weather (dehydration), extended exercise (fuel 
>stores depletion) and a smallish din-din I think combined to chill you out 
>by four aye-em. My guess, anywho. For a runner, "extended exercise" means 
>I don't expect too much from myself for a 24-48 hour period. For cold 
>sleeping, it means not only enough fuel to make up for that consumed, but 
>enough too to stoke that furnace with buckets of easy-available heat. 
>Brrrrrr. I'm getting cold typing this. (But Jeez, Ms. Mix-up, with those 
>vitals, how's come you're not a runner? Or arrrrrrrrre you?) What does 
>your nurseness think of the hypothesis?

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