I am shaking violently and feel extremely sick. I can no longer walk or even follow Paul. I long left my hate-chant berating him for taking me on this drizzly death hike. To his STUPID last of the 46 Adirondack High Peaks. What a dumb endeavor. Is my need to have a friend to go hiking and biking so high that I would risk my life to endure his finishing campaign to the last peak. And this one so remote that we had to camp half way. There was no way we were getting out of here tonight. And I had no food. It seems to me these Adirondack hiking people love to starve themselves to death. Last nights meal left me more hungary then before I ate it. Now I was going to die.
Paul stopped built a fire and I huddled around it. But it was not until we put the heated rocks in my coat that I started feeling better. I held onto two hot rocks as we hiked back to our lean-to and jumped into bed with more heated rocks. I fell fast asleep.
Now almost 20 years later I am shaking so violently I cant read my thermometer. I strain to hold still just long enough to read the display. 97.2 a long way off of 95, the temperature at wich a human will need help to come back from. I am safe but shivering as though I have electricity running through my body. I have been submerged in ice water for 40 minutes now which is a record for me. Normally in 50-60 degree water it takes only 10-15 minutes for the first symptoms of hypothermia to start. But I know it can take up to 2 hours before I actually die. If the water were less then 50, say 40ish, I would be in trouble in 5 minutes. In any case anything over 20 minutes in this type of environment was impossible for me about two months ago but now I have started to beat it.
I want to become cold adapted. That way I can overcome one more of my many life failures. Anyone want to go walk in the rain in 40 degree temperatures with me now?
Boneshakerbike 
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