2009-07-19 Hot Daze Training Ride

Work reared it's ugly head and prevented this interesting ride with RenoJohn

Since the bike was already prepped (guns, ammo, water, camping gear, gas and oil) decided to make a 'Heat Training' run in preparation for a DV run.

Leaving

Hot Early

Dark

Sunrise O'er de Valley

Bodfish-Caliente Start (from 58, South to North)

RR Xing

Dry and Brown - not like Nakusp

Caliente Post Office

Colorized

I Was Here I Think

Courthouse

Skool

E Clampus Vitus! (taken for TurboDave!)

Bad Peckers Leave Big HOles

KlassRoom

Warming Hut (what we all need these days)

Good Feejer

Monument

Moozeahm

Big Tim Tree

Caliente-Bodfish peak - ~4,500 feet and 102F - Lake Isabella in the background

The Hot Point

The Ride

Drank copious amounts of water, drank until I couldn't drink anymore, then drank more anyway. No problems with vision, shaking, thinking, all the typical signs of dehydration. Stopped often to cool down in AC joints like BurgerKing etc. No soft drinks, just water. IIRC I drank 5 tanks of the Skyway Hydration system. All day I continued to sweat, but after 17 hours total, with a good 10 of those hours in the 102+ mark, I was still peeing acid at days end.

Today I be chillin'

The End