> 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. Since I was just remembering this story, I did some research to make sure it wasn't an impossibility. The article I quoted was by a Nutrition professor at UC Davis.
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> Ecstasy? Where'd that come from?
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> Ferrick

Would this professor be Liz Applegate, the woman who has completed the Ironman in Hawaii several times and can do 100 pull-ups? I remember her saying, "I'm not sure what good that does me, but I suppose if someone threw me out a window, I could grab onto the ledge and pull myself back in."

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