Re: [Paddlewise] Paddling in HOT conditions.

I've paddled some Utah rivers in the summertime in 90 degree
temperatures.  In fresh water, it's easy to splash some water on
yourself, or dunk your shirt in the water to immediately cool down.  You
won't get that relief in the Sea of Cortez, since the crusted salt in
your clothing would quickly teach you that dunking is not an option.  You
could go shirtless and dunk, but you'll bake like a chicken on a
rotisseree, and your wife better like lizard skin.  I'm of the
Arab-Israeli school of desert-living, not the Southern-California school.

All I can offer is that people routinely work in hot, nasty weather, and
they survive.  A friend of mine worked summers on an asphalt-paving crew
in southeast Arizona and told me he drank 6 gallons of water a day.  If
you have abundant fresh water (potable or non-potable) available, I'd wet
my shirt with that and stay cool that way

Darrell Lee
Alameda, CA
snorkler_at_juno.com

On Thu, 30 Mar 2000 22:06:44 -0800 "Richard G. Mitchell, Jr."
<mitchelr_at_ucs.orst.edu> writes:
> Any Paddlewise have experience paddling in the southern Sea of
> Cortez in late June?  The temperature data are fairly clear with
> hot days and dramatic shifts toward cooler evenings.  However
>
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