At 06:19 PM 11/30/99 -0600, Chuck Holst wrote: >>> >Actually, having to get up in the night is not usually a problem in >winter, because of how dehydrating the air is. Cold air holds little >moisture, and winter air in Minnesota can be drier than a desert. >Keeping hydrated is one of the biggest problems in winter camping; as on >a hot day, you have to force yourself to drink before you get thirsty. A few years ago, I had an interesting time exchanging e-mails with a guy that was wintering over at the south pole. They have an interesting little hobby there -- when the outside temp gets below -100F, they heat up the sauna to +200F, bake a while, then run outside . . . eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeegad! It's interesting that the south pole, covered in snow and ice a couple miles deep, is actually a desert due to the lack of precipitation. "Great God," Scott said, "This is an awful place!" They don't get mail down there for several months -- note the recent "rescue" of the woman doctor that was diagnosed with breast cancer while there -- but they do get e-mail. I was e-mailing my friend the text for a newsletter that I was doing, to help him pass the time. I was getting set to post the same text, when all of I sudden I realized that I had deleted the version on my own computer. No problem -- my friend e-mailed his copy back to me. >From the south pole. I keep having visions of Robert Falcon Scott rolling over in his icy grave . . . -- Wes *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net Subscriptions: paddlewise-request_at_lists.intelenet.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Nov 30 1999 - 19:22:59 PST
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