I haven’t hiked in extreme hot temperature in a long time.
Having read about the deaths of two hikers outside Palm Spring last week in 110F+ degree temperature, and this article where a hiking group organizer says he’d never take people hiking in temps above 90, I wonder when BPL’ers consider it ‘too hot to hike.’
I have a trip planned to Trinity Alps this weekend where temperatures at the 3600′ TH are predicted to hit 95 degrees on my day of departure and 100 when I return, with a 2300′ elevation gain to 5900′ where the temps will be in the mid 80s.
I’ll be hiking the Canyon Creek trail and staying below Canyon Creek lakes the 1st night and at Boulder Lake the 2nd. I have a 2L platy and another 28oz generic water bottle. It should never be more than 2 miles between water refills if I’m reading the trail description correct.
My skin-out weight with a full water load will be about 26lbs.
One thing I’m considering is bringing my TT Rainbow instead of the Golite Poncho/tarp and mosquito net combo because the TT would provide better shade/mosquito protection, but would have 1.5 lbs to my baseweight.
Anything else I should take into consideration for this trip?
