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Posted by calamity on February 26, 2008 at 2:41:42 am EST
In reply to What's the most water you have lugged around? posted by MTB416 on January 28, 2008 at 5:51:55 pm EST

On many brief sea kayaking/camping trips on much of eastern seaboard but mainly Block Island Sound/Eastern Long Island, there was no potable water but temperatures and most paddling goals were modest.

Thus two quarts per 18 hours, was a severe minimum , supplemented by frequent self-dunkings in cool water.

More relevant to "trailspace," my hikes and climbs, also in moderate temperatures, have often been more strenuous than these paddles, and required sometimes maybe 20% more water, though often less planning.

Not uncommonly on these kayak trips, I went a little thirsty on this ration, but was rarely more than an hour from emergency supplies, and probably less if I wanted to hail down a boat and beg.

I certainly never declared an emergency, and only begged once: It was a quart, from of a desperately shipwrecked yachtsman, or swine, it appeared,who provided the pearly liquid while awaiting an expensive and dubious tow off a beach that severely flumoxed him the night before.

I strived to supply myself with a fairly optimal four quarts per 24 hours. Yet I often failed to achieve this goal, due to laziness and/or uncertain plans for an early return to port or intermediate supply points.

Water consumption, obviously includes major variables: most sigificantly perhaps the effective temperature and the amount of work, or calories (heat) expended, fitness to whatever degree, but certainly also, to a lesser degree, congenital differences related to body type and metabolism.

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