| Title: Surviving Grand Canyon: It's All About Water | |||
| Author: Gary Barnes | Year: 2019 | ||
| Publisher: Independently published | |||
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| Part 1 of 5 in the series based on "A Walk in the Deep Big Empty: The Science for Surviving Grand Canyon." Survival topics discussed all revolve around the importance of Water: 1) Dehydration 2) Hyperthermia 3) Hyponatremia 4) Voluntary Dehydration 5) Water Discipline and Water Rationing 6) Should you Drink Urine? 7) Getting Water-and-Salt Calibrated 8) What the Desert 'Experts' recommend 9) Water Quality and Sources at Grand Canyon 10) Breccia pipes and Radioactivity 11) To Drink or Not 12) Canyon geology and finding water 13) Seeps, Puddles, and Potholes 14) How to treat water to make it safe 15) Flash floods 16) Trapped in a Waterfall 17) Water Management and Planning your Hike. Successful and tragic "thirsty hiker" scenarios are analyzed for what went right and what went wrong. |
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