It is a warm June day on a long ridge walk. You set off with a litre bottle because that is the bottle you always take. By early afternoon it is empty, the next stream on the map is a dry stony gully, and you have a dull headache that you put down to the sun. You start to make small mistakes: a wrong turn at a path junction, a…
In this lesson
How much water you need
Planning what to carry
Recognising dehydration
The signs, early to severe
Urine colour: the simple field check
Thirst lags behind need
Mistaking it for something else
Check on the quiet ones
Drinking routine on the move
Salt, electrolytes and an improvised rehydration drink
On a normal hill day
For diarrhoea and heavy fluid loss
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