@ai6yr

I was a safety coordinator at my last job. one component was the effects of heat exposure. I learned a lot but what really taught me about how the human body responds to high temperatures was Jeff Goodell's The Heat Will Kill You First. He describes in vivid detail exactly what happens inside your body at high temps. It's all bad but how the human body attempts to cope is fascinating. Also, Rhabdomyolysis is horrible and can affect anyone. Your level of fitness will not prevent it.

@Nshrubs @coolcalmcollected @ai6yr

I hiked the canyon with my dad and brother in my teens, we were hiking up the north rim, huffing and puffing and stopping often with our packs, my brother just walked up quickly since he lived in Flagstaff at the time. As we got to the rim, some runners came down past us, no packs, no shirts, no hiking shoes. We kind of laughed, it was funny, but I can see in a heat wave people would get into serious trouble there.

@Nshrubs
I saved a guy's life in the Grand Canyon. We had hiked down a ways and had turned to come back up. We'd stop and rest and drink water every so often so we'd see the same hikers passing us time and time again.

One guy was struggling more and more as we saw him so when he caught up with us one time, i told him i was taking his pack and would hike it out.

He said no. A woman yelled at him and another couple with them agreed that he needed to surrender his pack. So he did.

We hiked out with the other woman and i gave her his pack at the top.

We met up with the four of them at El Tovar later that night. They had hiked rim to rim and camped over night at the bottom. He wasn't eating enough food on the climb out.
@darwinwoodka @coolcalmcollected @ai6yr

@ai6yr
Even the descent is a killer. Hard to imagine staying overnight without a hot tub to really let the aches set in, and then climb a mountain out the next day.

But i understand there's no shortage of people wanting to do it.
@Nshrubs @darwinwoodka @coolcalmcollected