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Sea Kayak Trips Bulletin Board
Re: Cold Hands and Caffeine
Posted By: Mike Hanks In Response To: Fire and Ice (Robert Woodard)
Date: Sunday, 19 December 1999, at 1:09 a.m.
> I think I'm about to give up on the rolling for the season. Not quite yet,
> but pretty soon. Since I've learned that Greenland style bracing, that
> works almost as well for me to cool off inside the dry suit, and not have
> to get my face wet. Solves the problem of my glasses fogging and ice cream
> headache, yet still keeps me practiced up so that I could roll if needed.> The Y2Kold seminar the club is putting on next month should be
> interesting. By then I'm sure the water will be cold enough to deter my
> rolling. I hope I can find the right gloves by then. Someone on Paddlewise
> (I think) suggested the heavy duty black fore arm length rubber gloves,
> tied off with a rubber band. I think that will be my next attemt in my
> never ending search for the perfect winter gloves. You can get a dry suit
> with sewn in booties, why not gloves?> Lately I've been having some very weird things going on with my hands.
> I've been meaning to write about it, but keep forgetting. Sometimes when
> paddling, my hands get real cold, while other times they are nice and
> toasty. They can go from one extreme to the other and back again. Wind
> seems to have nothing to do with it. I'm beginning to speculate (sitting
> here in an arm chair) that it may be the speed that I'm paddling. When
> paddling slow, water tends to run down my paddle onto my hands, but if I
> paddle faster it doesn't. (I paddle Greenland style for those that haven't
> read my trip reports before) I should get off my butt and epoxy in some
> drip strings. I also had an idea to take a hole saw and cut little moon
> shaped cutouts on the edge of the paddle to create another place the water
> could drip off.> Anyhow, I want to prove my theory before doing anything permanent to the
> paddle.> Woody
Woody,
I don't know if you are a coffee drinker or not but caffeine is a major contributor to cold hands. Many people have found that cutting out caffeine stops their cold hands problem. This is a hard thing for me to do living in the Seattle area, coffee is a way of life.
Mike
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