Thursday, 15 October 2015

Hydration is Key

You must not even think of starting a hike that will take you more than 2 km from home without a bottle of water. You should have at least one litre of water with you and drink about 250ml every 40 minutes. You should keep drinking water even if you don’t feel very thirsty. You might not realize it but while you are hiking, your body does lose moisture. So its very important to replenish it. 


 A good way to tell if you are hydrated is that you should have consumed the entire litre of water during a 3 hour hike and still need to use the loo afterwards. If that is not the case you should drink more water since it means you have lost more moisture from perspiration than you have replenished. Drink water every now and then until you need the loo.

Water is the key to survival, doesn’t matter if you are at home or on a hike. You can live for 3 days without water and I can tell you from experience after 1 day without water you are not acting rationally.

If you don’t have food you will be able to walk on for about 200 km. But if you run out of water, you have one day to find a way out of that situation, after that its up to…

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