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Re: [RC] Secrets to Hydration??? help...... - RDCARRIE

In a message dated 5/22/2005 9:10:25 PM Central Standard Time, tprevatt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:

My experience with camelbaks was the heat the keep in because to the
large amount of surface area they covered was a huge problem.


They do make my back hot.  However, I for some reason never seem to "remember" to get water bottles out to drink.  I'll go an entire loop and not pull them out.  (Of course, I *am* blonde...).  My husband got me the camelbak after I had to pull from a 50 at 38 miles from heat/dehydration problems (had been puking off the side of my horse for the previous 5 miles or so).  Another rider (ride vet Linda Reznicek) came upon me sitting motionless on my horse, blacking in and out, and got my horse to follow hers the remaining few miles to camp.  I'll take a hot patch on my back to *that* experience any time.  I'll drink every little while out of the Camelbak, no problem.

Dawn in East Texas