What do you drink when hiking

zook · Aug 24, 2006, 1:44 PM

I mostly drink water. However, during one of my summer hikes - on a very hot and very humid day - it didn't seem to work as well and I could not stop feeling thirsty. The fact that I've been sick just a few days earlier probably had something to do with that as well...

Anyway - what do you drink when hiking and does weather have any influence on what type of drink you take on your hike?

andyzee · Aug 24, 2006, 1:55 PM

Nothing like water, and for energy, I'll take some hammer gel or power bars.

**Greg** · Aug 24, 2006, 2:06 PM

Water. If backpacking or basecamping, I usually bring along powdered drinks like Kool-Aid. I usually try to drink several quarts while hanging at camp.

skibum9995 · Aug 24, 2006, 3:04 PM

I drink water and lots of it. On really hot days I'll take along a packet of powdered drink mix but I usually just eat the powder instead of mixing it.

SkiDog · Aug 24, 2006, 3:06 PM

i drink water and I also use gatorade powder. I mix it in a nalgene..works GREAT for recovery..

M

cbcbd · Aug 24, 2006, 3:07 PM

Water and only on really hot and long hikes some Gatorade powder mix.

Otherwise I can get by licking the sweat off my lips to restore my lost salts

wintersyndrome · Aug 24, 2006, 3:50 PM

nothing helps you roll to the bottom of the trails quicker than rum and vodka in large quantities

seriouslly i would normally drink water, its cheap, and if there is a spring near by its free off of Giant ledge in the catskills I found a nice spring near the top ridegeline, no-one had the runs afterwards so I assume spring fed water is still safe, though it has been a few years since my last ascent (Pharoah Mtn in the catskills '02)

Charlie Schuessler · Aug 24, 2006, 8:01 PM

Mostly H2O with some Cuervo Gold for the Ceremonial Toasts along the way…

ChileMass · Aug 24, 2006, 8:57 PM

I think it was the Trailboss who recommended Vitamin Water, so I tried the citrus/guarana flavor going up Washington and it was terrific. Bought another one for my last hike, and liked it just as much. It has just a little extra ooomph - you can really feel it when you drink it. Highly recommended.

**Greg** · Aug 24, 2006, 9:09 PM

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Originally Posted by ChileMass

I think it was the Trailboss who recommended Vitamin Water, so I tried the citrus/guarana flavor going up Washington and it was terrific. Bought another one for my last hike, and liked it just as much. It has just a little extra ooomph - you can really feel it when you drink it. Highly recommended.

All this tech foodstuff - energy gels, vitamin water. Back in the day (not backpacking or hiking as much as I used to), we would simply drink water and pop a vitamin tablet or two. I'd get my sodium from the Mountain House stews or from salted peanuts or other snacks. We'd drink a ton of Kool-Aid at camp, usually generic grapeade!

Aug 24, 2006, 1:44 PM	#1 (permalink)
zook Brighton, Utah Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Queens, NY Posts: 149	What do you drink when hiking I mostly drink water. However, during one of my summer hikes - on a very hot and very humid day - it didn't seem to work as well and I could not stop feeling thirsty. The fact that I've been sick just a few days earlier probably had something to do with that as well... Anyway - what do you drink when hiking and does weather have any influence on what type of drink you take on your hike?

Aug 24, 2006, 1:55 PM	#2 (permalink)
andyzee Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Home Posts: 7,003	Nothing like water, and for energy, I'll take some hammer gel or power bars. __________________ 10-18-12-16

Aug 24, 2006, 2:06 PM	#3 (permalink)
Greg Mad River Glen - 2/8/08 Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Thomaston, CT Posts: 18,984	Water. If backpacking or basecamping, I usually bring along powdered drinks like Kool-Aid. I usually try to drink several quarts while hanging at camp. __________________ Greg 2007-08, 2006-07, 2005-06, 2004-05 Life's too short for warm up runs.

Aug 24, 2006, 3:06 PM	#5 (permalink)
SkiDog Join Date: May 2005 Location: Sandy UTAH Posts: 1,620	i drink water and I also use gatorade powder. I mix it in a nalgene..works GREAT for recovery.. M __________________ http://www.firsttracksonline.com

Aug 24, 2006, 3:07 PM	#6 (permalink)
cbcbd Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Shoreline,WA Posts: 1,254	Water and only on really hot and long hikes some Gatorade powder mix. Otherwise I can get by licking the sweat off my lips to restore my lost salts __________________ Sign, sign everywhere a sign... pointing out the trails, can\'t make up my mind.

Aug 24, 2006, 3:04 PM	#4 (permalink)
skibum9995 Okemo GS 2/11/08 Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Hooksett, NH Posts: 444	I drink water and lots of it. On really hot days I'll take along a packet of powdered drink mix but I usually just eat the powder instead of mixing it.

Aug 24, 2006, 3:50 PM	#7 (permalink)
wintersyndrome Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Long Island, New York Posts: 380	nothing helps you roll to the bottom of the trails quicker than rum and vodka in large quantities seriouslly i would normally drink water, its cheap, and if there is a spring near by its free off of Giant ledge in the catskills I found a nice spring near the top ridegeline, no-one had the runs afterwards so I assume spring fed water is still safe, though it has been a few years since my last ascent (Pharoah Mtn in the catskills '02)

Aug 24, 2006, 8:01 PM	#8 (permalink)
Charlie Schuessler Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Mont Vernon NH Posts: 1,097	Mostly H2O with some Cuervo Gold for the Ceremonial Toasts along the way… __________________ "Whenever our affairs go obviously wrong, the good sense of the people will interpose and set them to rights." - Thomas Jefferson

Aug 24, 2006, 8:57 PM	#9 (permalink)
ChileMass Red Sox Fan Since 1967 Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: East/Central MA Posts: 2,264	I think it was the Trailboss who recommended Vitamin Water, so I tried the citrus/guarana flavor going up Washington and it was terrific. Bought another one for my last hike, and liked it just as much. It has just a little extra ooomph - you can really feel it when you drink it. Highly recommended.

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