Acclimating

[brokedownbiker]

One of the stories in my originating paragraph was from Tank Hill @ Ft Jackson in July, good times right there LOL

Amen! August-October 1980. Fourth row from the top of the Hill and the three rows above us were condemned at the time, LOL. Then 4 months at Ft. Gorden GA, then off to Germany!

[Matt In Oklahoma]

Amen! August-October 1980. Fourth row from the top of the Hill and the three rows above us were condemned at the time, LOL. Then 4 months at Ft. Gorden GA, then off to Germany!

Hooah 85 C-1-1 then straight to the motherland for brats n nukes after my one week of marriage n honeymoon

[brokedownbiker]

Yep, D-4-1; Staff Sergeant Brumfield and Sergeant Woodward, what a pair of Drills! Still keep 'em in my prayers, they helped make me into the man I am today.

[WiseOwl]

108 in the backyard today loading my trailer to take to my new house Tuesday.
115 in the shed.

Hello Summer.


A good towel doused with water and a liter of agua and I was good for 4+ hours. Could have went longer if I had more work to do. Went half speed. Loaded a ton of wood and broke down the garden boxes.

Without water, I would have been in the A/C watching Big Bang Theory.

[JUSTIFIED]

No military "push em till they puke" stories from me. LOL

I hate the heat but am used to it. I grew up in Maryland in the days before C H/A. We had a 2600 sf, two story house with a window unit in the upstairs dining room and a swamp cooler in the basement. I remember sleeping and sweating through the nights when the lows were in the 80s and the humidity was about the same. Most of my work since 2002 has been in the heat, working for the county but the last two years I've spent most of my time in a grader with few days in the heat for very long. I spend more time working in my yard at home in the heat than at work.

For a couple of years I worked with a friend, an old cowboy, named Jackson Moody whose grandpa taught him to wear long sleeve cotton shirts with the sleeves down, the idea being that once he started to sweat the breeze would blow through that shirt, hit that sweat, cool it and cool him. Never could bring myself to do that.

Brokedownbiker mentioned the importance of hydrating. Where we lived in CO it was incredibly dry and even when cool it was important that you drank plenty of water or you could suffer the consequences. When it's cold, make sure your head, hands and feet are protected since that's where you lose the most body heat.

Regarding elevation, as we get older the chemistry in our body changes. My Dad never had trouble going from low to higher elevations when he was younger but the last time he came to visit us in CO, he was about 83, we took him up to about 11,000ft. We got out of the car to walk to see something and about 100 ft from the car I had to sit him down. He about passed out. I drove the suburban to him and we took him down to our house at about 9,000 ft. He was still somewhat sick and he and mom left a day early. The minute they hit about 6,000 ft elevation dad was alright. Just one of those things where he could no longer take the elevation change.

As we age I don't think we adapt to things as easily as we used to so all the talk from several in this discussion about doing things at different elevations and temperatures to help us adapt to them gradually is a good idea. Less of a shock to the system if we find ourselves in a situation where we have no choice but to adapt.

[MJC]

This is a really good post. Several years ago we moved from Utah to Wyoming, I didn't think it would be a big deal but that first winter prooved me wrong! For about 3 days in a row the night time temps dropped down around 25 below then add the freezing wind. We lived in a singlewide with a wonky furnace. We spent three years there and then moved back to Utah and in mid winter I was wearing shorts and a t-shirt, 38 degrees outside felt like a heat wave because I was so used to cooler temps.