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Re: [RC] 100 miler list - Lif StrandAt 09:52 AM 5/22/2004, k s swigart wrote:3. Bring cold weather gear to every ride even one in San Diego in June because it might snow in the middle of the night on the top of Mt. Laguna, and no matter how good of condition your horse is in, you can't complete if you have hypothermia. Have to disagree with that. I have completed a hundred miler suffering from hypothermia. When I realized that something was very, very wrong sometime in the last 15 miles, I tied the reins in a knot and just hung on. Was hallucinating, I had to be physically removed from my horse because I couldn't make my body work any more, I had to be dragged to my bed, had warm liquids forced down me, was wrapped in many blankets and down bags and horse blankets and it took almost 24 hours before I was almost back to normal. And by the way - anyone who says that it just feels like going to sleep when you're freezing to death hasn't spent any time freezing to death. It didn't feel like going to sleep, it felt like torture by ice cubes. Horse was fine, we got a completion. Therefore, I'd substitute the following for item 3: Bring cold weather gear to every ride AND carry it on the saddle AND don't loan it out to anyone else because it doesn't seem all that cold yet because as Kat said, it can snow in the middle of the night, or it might drop *well* below freezing even though it was in the high 80s during the day if you're riding up in altitude. Also, don't forget to bring a saddle to the ride. Virginia City 100, mid-1980s. ________________________________
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