Sunday night the temp dropped to 42F. Clear skies allowed for radiational cooling. The humidty here at 7000ft is about 10% and I know from experience that dehydration can hurt. The worst thing to drink? Water! As I know from a car accident 4 years ago, drinking plain water depletes the salt, potassium and other electrolytes and you pass out. I ended up in UNM Hospital for skull surgery (I hit a tree). I woke up a week after and learned it had taken 12 hours for the doctors to raise my electrolyte levels to where the could operate. The technical term is hyponatremia (not to be confused with hypothermia) and the lay person knows it as water poisoning.
We met a friend on the Plaza in Santa Fe and during drinks he asked why his friends from the west coast (where he had lived) always said they felt worse when they visited and drank water! The secret is to have sports drinks and salt supplements. The great salt debate perpretrated by Bloomberg of NYC is a myth.
About 11AM we went out to hack dead plants over the leach field. Temp 70, cool in the shade, broiling in the high altitude sun. Copious amounts of Gatorade (developed for the Florida Gators football team). It felt like 110F.
Come visit NM but be careful!
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