Then, without trying, I overheated simply by exercising in a room that I didn't know was 95F.
(Since I've mostly only lived in cold/moderate climates, and had never learned how risky 95F is.)
It was highly unpleasant, in an uh-oh, I can see how people die this way, kind of way.
Now, I actively avoid anywhere much hotter than about 80F.
Just last week, I declined a very interesting recruiting outreach from a CEO in Austin, telling him, sorry, but the weather in Texas is just too hot for me.
I'm ready to repurpose the term "special snowflake".
> A young woman seems to be walking around in a daze. [...] I don't think they believed their guidebooks about how uncomfortably hot it can get in Death Valley.
I hope someone helped the dazed person with first aid. And that other people take the heat seriously. It's right there in the name: Death Valley.
I saw the same things begin to happen to my wife some years later when bike riding in the heat. I did the same for her and all was well.
I grew up playing baseball and tennis in 95-100º weather with high humidity routinely. It wasn't pleasant, but nobody was getting heatstroke, nobody was cancelling games or practices. But on a visit to Montana a few summers ago, I saw that kids' baseball games had been cancelled because the temperatures had reach a dangerous level: 90º (in dry mountain air.) Same human beings, different levels of acclimation, very different safety thresholds.
I've never been in the temperatures described in this article, though, and I don't know what the physical limits of acclimation are.
I recall with some amusement thinking I was coming down with heat stroke one summerbecause the light wind felt chilly on my skin. But then I realized it was only 95 degrees
Now if it had been 50% RH, the web bulb temp would be > 96°F which is not survivable by humans for very long because no amount of sweating in that humidity will cool you down.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/12/tragic-death...
It is currently - well after sunset - 82°F outside. A couple days ago it was mid-90s in the afternoon, and it should get back to that after the current weather passes in another few days.
Mowing the yard when it's high 90s and muggy and sunny is not as rare an occurrence as I might like.
EDIT: And this is what a serious amateur can do on that route: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-03-10/astrophy...
Thousands of people run 50k's without a crew every year, worldwide. Maybe even just within the US, even.
Also, Hummels did his traverse in February; TFA is about doing something in July. In Death Valley, that's a world of difference.
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