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On Sep 30, 12:15 am, "Don White" wrote:
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Vic suggested using salt tablets for extreme sweating and I have to
admit I have never used salt tablets and dont use much salt on my food
either. I cannot seem to convince my doc that the sweating is a
serious problem; he simply says to drink a lot of water. However, it
has come close to killing me twice while caving so I can no longer do
any real caving. Caves are a near 100% humidity enviro and around
here are roughly 74 degrees so I sweat enough to have my coveralls
saturated very quickly. The last couple times I went, I got loopy and
got lost and simply didnt care.
When boating, I can carry a lot of water so I always have a liter in
hand. I never drink sodas and am not into sports drinks either. This
issue makes me not want to go boating by myself so I am looking for a
solution. Sweating is your bodies way to get cool so isnt suppressing
sweating a bad thing? One can normally cool off during boating too by
jumping in the water but when working on the boat in the heat, I just
dont want to take the time to do that until suddenly I realize, uh oh,
am doing stupid things...............
So, salt tabs or not?
What a difference up here in our climate.
Most times I'll leave the house around 1030..drive to launch site..boat for
a few hours and drive home by 1630 or so..without one drop of water or
anything else.
Doesn't bother me a bit...in fact it keeps the bathroom breaks down on a
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A human is always sweating, using up body water.
Been caving all over, Wyoming in high altitude caves with permanent
ice. Belize with Mayan ruins in the caves, deep Mexican pits (El
Sotano Golundrinas, climbing 1000' on Prusik knots, too old for that
now), Venezuela on the sides of Roraima, Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia
caves. I used to do caving near Boaz. Will be going to the TAG Fall
Cave In on Lookout Mt in two weeks. N. FL caves are roughly 73
degrees, Mid Fl caves are 74. N. Alabama caves are roughly 68. The
major diff is the amount of very tight crawling in Fl and S. Georgia
caves. Most Alabama caves have large passages while passages here are
often so small you have to remove your helmet and push with your toes,
almost like trying to swim through rock which is why I sweat so much
there. My kids think caving is the most awesome thing possible and my
12 yr old has done nothing but talk about the Fall Cave Inn for a
month. Will probably do Tumbling Rock cave and Guffeys Cave there,
both easy ones for me. Tumbling Rock has a 250' mountain in a huge
room near the back called Mt Olympus topped with an enormous red
stalagmite 30' tall called "The Pillar of Fire". Get me started and
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Does sound like you have an issue with the sweating. Admittedly it's
a bit personal but what's your weight?
6' 1" and 187 lbs so not as thin as I used to be. The sweating is a
side effect of medicine. Recently found caves near Brooksville are
very pretty. Deepest pit in USA is adjacent to Lookout Mt, 587'
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I have been hiking around that pit, but if it's the one I am thinking
of, they are pretty strict about who gets to go in. Isn't it called
the "Space walk", the trails leading by it? Anyway, the caves we went
to outside Boaz were a bit south of Huntsville and right off 65 iirc..
I remember one time we went hiking past them and were repelled by a
fat sherrif and his boy, someone told me they had a still back there
and we were lucky to come out, I think they had pot fields down there
by the river...
Anyway, I found the pics, I will put them up later.
Caves with pits can be hazardous cuz in the dark someone can wander
right into the pit, might ruin yer day. Over near Boaz is a cave up a
rutted road where we were warned to ignore any pot plants. A 60' drop
into the first pit than a short crawl to a 180' pit. We got trapped
in it when some fool pulled up our rope, spent 6 hours huddled in a
trash bag in spray from a waterfall waiting till our call-out time was
exceeded and our friends came for us, they did.
One of the most scenic is up near Paint Rock about 20 miles west of
Scottsboro, a shear 180' drop with a walk in side entrance that gets
about halfway down the pit. 3 crisscrossing waterfalls go into the pit
from different streams coming out of the walls. Neversink is near
there, a beautiful 160' deep pit, 120' wide, walls covered with ferns
and water dripping into the pit; has been in National Geographic.
Even if you never do extreme caving, the places you go will take your
breathe away and it is the cheapest high adventure sport I can
imagine. Cavers are all semi-crazy too.
We bought our first sailboat to keep on Lake Guntersville near Boaz.