It started out a quite nice hike. The first six miles just flew by. Then we hit an area with more trees and a pretty brutal 1000 ft climb in a half mile followed by some nasty up-and-down switchbacks. We were both quite wiped. The last segment turned out to be city streets. It pretty much bit. The heat also came on and we were both suffering from dehydration, so we bailed on the last 500 ft climb to a water tower and replaced it with a wander through a housing development.
I grossly underestimated the water requirements. I drank two liters fairly quickly and then suffered through five miles with no water. We found a park with water fountains that yielded potable water once the yellow stuff stopped. (Apparently not a well used park.) I drank another liter and a half with food and then another liter over the last few miles. Still, I was severely thirsty at the end (though avoiding the last liter of crappy 90F water in my pack.) I went straight to a store and drank an Odwalla "C Monster" and a liter of coke. Despite all this, by the time I arrived home, I had lost 1.5 lbs of what must have been water weight through sweat.
By the time the half-hour drive from the hike was complete, my shirt had dried and was encrusted with salt crystals.
Thank Gord we didn't do it in August.
I've had my Mac Mini for a few weeks now and have essentially dumped Lunix on the desktop. It's been nice because I've also been able to install Windows and my old Windows games through boot camp. I only have a couple of complains, like:
Why does iTunes bite so hard? Is there an OSX music program that can deal with music files on a NAS in a reasonable fashion?
Why does iPhoto bite so hard? Is there an OSX photo management program that can keep its library on a NAS in a reasonable fashion?
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