> This is an extreme story and, like I said, something occured that was quite rare. I wondered about the weight of the water, too. She was not camping in the canyon, rather, she was hiking from the top to the bottom and had friends with her. There is also a spigot at the bottom, I believe, for refilling water but I'm not sure. This is just an example of overdoing it. The average person would have to worry more about dehydrating rather than over hydrating.

I went on a mountain trip some years ago with a bunch of friends. It was the hottest day that summer (about 30°C/90°F which is *very* hot around there), and we started out around noon and returned around 11 p.m. It was very steep at first (my T-shirt was *soaking* wet), and there was a constant, warm wind blowing up on the top plateau where we hiked to (where my clothes dried up again, although I was still sweating). So I was very careful and made sure I drank a little water all the time. When the trip was over, my total intake of liquid had been about 5 liters (or about 1 1/3 gallon), and I had lost it all by sweating! (I didn't take a leak (I don't know if you can say that... is it considered rude?) at any time during the trip.)

And if you want to see where we went, click the link and look at the top picture. The caption says: "Hornelen -- highest sea cliff in Northern Europe, 860 meters above sea level."

Also, Jakob Sande, one of my favourite poets, has written a poem about this mountain. I found a translation here (the one at the bottom): http://w1.2577.telia.com/~u257700525/garden/lights.htm


Trav"That was one nice trip! Hard, but nice."holt