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sacred_datura
Joined: 18 Apr 2007 Posts: 138 Location: Scottsdale, Arizona
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Posted: 4/19/2007, 4:10 pm Post subject: What do you drink? |
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I usually hike with Gookinaid (lemon or citrus) in my Camelback. It's inexpensive and palatable. I was wondering what everyone's personal preference is. I like to mix things up a bit! I've noticed quite a few different brands offered at REI but some of them are pricey. I dislike anything too sweet or overly powerful in flavor. |
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CatValet Got Gear?
Joined: 04 Jan 2003 Posts: 735 Location: Scottsdale
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Posted: 4/19/2007, 4:20 pm Post subject: |
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I use that or Gatorade for electrolyte balance, but just keep water in the bladder in my pack. I also use Wylors powdered lemonade mix with cold spring water and Bacardi 151 (more bounce per ounce, and weight matters in the canyon), as well as 100 proof schnapps for a morning bracer and a pint of B&B for a nightcap... |
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sacred_datura
Joined: 18 Apr 2007 Posts: 138 Location: Scottsdale, Arizona
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Posted: 4/19/2007, 4:22 pm Post subject: AWESOME |
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CatValet wrote: |
I use that or Gatorade for electrolyte balance, but just keep water in the bladder in my pack. I also use Wylors powdered lemonade mix with cold spring water and Bacardi 151 (more bounce per ounce, and weight matters in the canyon), as well as 100 proof schnapps for a morning bracer and a pint of B&B for a nightcap... |
I always hike with a flask of Maker's Mark. |
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Davis2001R6
Joined: 12 Dec 2003 Posts: 5591 Location: Italy
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Posted: 4/19/2007, 4:52 pm Post subject: |
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On a typical day hike or backpack I typically just drink water and then when I stop for lunch mix up a liter of gatoraid or crystal light (lemon flavors). If I drink too much gatoraid in a day my teeth get sensitive, I tried gookinaid and a few others but nothing really caught my liking.
If you don't need the electrolytes I think the crystal light is awesome it says to mix it with 16-20oz's of water but even with a liter it gives it enough flavor for me.
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azbackpackr Hi Tech Wizardess
Joined: 31 Dec 2005 Posts: 3639 Location: Needles CA
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Posted: 4/19/2007, 5:20 pm Post subject: |
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I use powdered Gatorade, it's pretty much all you can get around here, although I guess you could get Crystal Light powder. It's all way too sweet for my taste--I make it using less powder than is called for. I also drink a lot of water out of my camelbak. I don't use the Gatorade much when dayhiking, though, only backpacking.
Hand me a beer and after I drink about half of it you'll find me hunting up the nearest couch so I can go to sleep. Not for me, thanks! |
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IGO
Joined: 08 Feb 2005 Posts: 4144 Location: Las Vegas
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Posted: 4/19/2007, 6:06 pm Post subject: |
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Water. _________________ "Surely all God's people, however serious or savage, great or small, like to play. Whales and elephants, dancing, humming gnats, and invisibly small mischievous microbes - all are warm with divine radium and must have lots of fun in them." John Muir |
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Trishness The Snake Charmer
Joined: 21 Sep 2003 Posts: 2530 Location: Apache Jct, AZ
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Posted: 4/19/2007, 7:58 pm Post subject: |
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Water for me! I usually carry an extra 32 oz lexan too with either gookinade, propel or gatorade but like to dilute it 50/50 with water because they are all too sweet to me straight up.
I don't like putting anything but water in my Camelbak just because it harbors bacteria growth.
_________________ ~~~Trish~~~
"Eastward the dawn rose, ridge behind ridge into the morning, and vanished out of eyesight into guess; it was no more than a glimmer blending with the hem of the sky, but it spoke to them, out of the memory and old tales, of the high and distant mountains." � J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of The Rings. |
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Shawn I'll sell you map to Lost Dutchman mine!
Joined: 03 Jan 2003 Posts: 2592 Location: Ahwatukee, AZ
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Posted: 4/19/2007, 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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ditto _________________ The bear went over the mountain to see what he could see. |
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DesertRoux
Joined: 10 Jul 2004 Posts: 397 Location: Scottsdale
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Posted: 4/19/2007, 8:46 pm Post subject: Re: AWESOME |
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sacred_datura wrote: |
CatValet wrote: |
I use that or Gatorade for electrolyte balance, but just keep water in the bladder in my pack. I also use Wylors powdered lemonade mix with cold spring water and Bacardi 151 (more bounce per ounce, and weight matters in the canyon), as well as 100 proof schnapps for a morning bracer and a pint of B&B for a nightcap... |
I always hike with a flask of Maker's Mark. |
I need to hike with you two...
MikeinFH can tag along... _________________ Good people... drink good beer.
-Hunter S. Thompson |
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PageRob
Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 859 Location: Page, Az.
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Posted: 4/19/2007, 9:20 pm Post subject: |
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Water and more water for the most part. On backpack trips I will often bring along powdered Gatorade in case I need to drink from some scuzzy pond water and need to kill the funky taste (and iodine, if I don't have any neutralizing tablets). A flask of Cap'n Morgan has recently been added to all backpacking stints, after my oversight last month in the Petrified Forest. _________________ Anywhere is within walking distance if you spend the time. |
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sacred_datura
Joined: 18 Apr 2007 Posts: 138 Location: Scottsdale, Arizona
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Posted: 4/19/2007, 9:24 pm Post subject: |
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Try storing your camelback in the freezer! Yucky stuff can't grow in there. I clean my bladder out with denture tablets, like Efferdent. |
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azbackpackr Hi Tech Wizardess
Joined: 31 Dec 2005 Posts: 3639 Location: Needles CA
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Posted: 4/20/2007, 3:57 am Post subject: |
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I use bleach-water to clean the camelbak. A few teaspoons, a lot of water, let it soak a little while then drain it and rinse several times. |
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YH Hooli Wants to be just like me!
Joined: 29 Mar 2007 Posts: 387 Location: Portland, OR and Yosemite on a good day.
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Posted: 4/20/2007, 7:11 am Post subject: |
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Water. I also carry a pack or two of EmergenC to help in recovery. |
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strawlady
Joined: 20 Nov 2006 Posts: 57 Location: Tucson, Arizona
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Posted: 4/20/2007, 7:14 am Post subject: |
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I always add packets of Electro Mix made by Emergen C folks to my water. No gunky sugar stuff in there except minerals. _________________ Twenty years from now you'll be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So . . . explore, dream, discover. - Twain |
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JW I'll make rain with my spaceman powers!
Joined: 20 Sep 2003 Posts: 1296
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Posted: 4/20/2007, 7:54 am Post subject: |
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Have tried all of the above, including hiking with Randy numerous times, but I haven't used anything else this year except ElectroMIX. It's a good product, the price is right and it's not sweet at all.
BTW the green stuff in your CamelBack is an acquired taste, once you get there... _________________ What a magnificent time to LIVE! - Everett Ruess.
Since my house burned down, I now own a better view of the rising moon. - Masahide. |
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