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If the day has been warm and a hot drink is prepared for a "pep up" for crossing the last high ridge to camp, salty bouillon is better than tea, since it replaces the salt lost by perspiration. The mountaineering rule is "A salt drink when you are tired in hot weather, a sweet drink when you are tired and cold." It is well to "tank up" after meals. An extra cup of a hot drink for breakfast, a good swig or two out of a pot of water prepared while camp is being broken, and thirst will be postponed till noon. At night one's thirst will dictate that tea and more tea, or just plain water, is needed. It is better to satisfy that thirst than to deny it. There is actual danger in the practice of denying oneself —either as Spartan or Puritan—adequate water. Man can no more exist on insufficient water than on insufficient oxygen. |
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