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“I wanted the drink to replace my electrolytes at the end of the day. but with out a lot of weight . the stuff I saw before on the web somewhere was really lightweight about 7-8 times lighter than gatoraide. the last time I was on the A.T. my gatoraide bag weighed almost as much as my food bag. I drink about 2 quarts of gatoraide aday on the trail.”

“Try some Tang.”

“Welcome, newguy jmz! For maximum efficiency at replacing electrolytes, how about a boullion cube dissolved in hot water as soon as you get to camp?”

“The letric lites are good I gess, but I can see perty good at dark anyways so I do not reely need none.”

“NOLS Link

The amount of salts in sports drinks is not sufficient to replace electrolytes during hard exercise. According to Dr. Chris Woollam, medical director of the Canadian International Marathon. ``To accommodate the loss of sodium while running,'' he says, ``you'd have to drink 12 litres of Gatorade per hour.''

He recommends a salty diet before running and drinking full-strength sports drinks rather than water while running. Also recommended: don't try to overhydrate before running and keep salty pretzels in your fanny pack to munch on after running for an hour.”

“The sodium is easy to come by but potassium is a little harder. Raisens have a lot and bananas--anybody know any other foods?


My mom was a lab tec and she saw folks die from getting their salts messed up so I try to be careful to eat something like peanuts and raisens with my water.”

“I was with a group of college students on a strenuous hike when one guy started getting the shakes, from exhaustion and lack of salts. I gave him a boullion cube, which are a lot cheaper than salt tablets. He swallowed it, without chewing or dissolving it, and I thought he was going to die from having that stonelike cubical think in his throat. Except for the danger of swallowing them whole, I still think boullion cubes are a good way to go, and lots cheaper than salt tablets.”

“I never realized it was important to replace salt when you hike. I suppose it's when you do hikes where you sweat a lot.”

“Welcome jmz. I'm in southeast Michigan. You'll find many people are hanging out in the midwest.

Check the "Ohio Folks" thread.”

“Welcome jmz”

“See Rad-told ya people still live in Ohio!”

“Only four people have ever died in Ohio.

Welcome.
Hope you get your powdered drink problem solved. I solve all of my problems by carrying a 50-60lb pack.”

“A powder Gaitoraid drink, lots of table salt, and a potassium vitamin pill during dinner does the trick fer me.

I'm waiting for a Gatoraid-like dring that uses NutraSweet instead of sugar...cause it'd prolly be much less volume and weight.”

“Welcome to the Zoo, jimz, the animals BYTE..so watch yer step..”

“Yeah, welcome to the enigma of Trail Talk.

Male or Female? (Sorry...had to ask!)”

“Welcome. Don't forget to look at the photo page linked to the "Trail Talk Today" page. It has a lot of our pictures on it...and could have yours also!”

“Sorry budder I'm Male, 38 Semiretired??? Le Subtil was right that was the stuff after finding the name I found out about Emergen-C it weighs .21 ozs or 6 grams the unsweetened version is .11 ozs or 3 grams per serving. just the thing to go with those yummy lipton dinners at the end of the day.”

“I have read that the sugar in Gatoraid can inhibit fluid uptake too.”