Up until a few years ago, I could've seen doing this as a worthwhile survival exercise, and to know that I can do it.

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.

Pairs great with the tale of the Death Valley Germans: https://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hu....

Nicely written. I liked the Car Talk captions. Would have loved to see larger images though. But I understand this is from 1998.

Looks like the same guy : https://www.turtletrader.com/dinesh-desai/

That's Death Valley Dinesh!! I just re-heard that episode on "Best of Car Talk"

Interesting that they didn't find the nights too cold for sleeping out. We camped in Racetrack Playa one spring some years back and the nights were bitterly cold with extreme wind.

I love it! This was what the ultra marathon community used to be like before it became commercialized and professionalized (https://mattmahoney.net/ultra/, especially the story of Gravel Man https://mattmahoney.net/ultra/death600.txt). Now you can't run 50k without a crew.

EDIT: And this is what a serious amateur can do on that route: https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-03-10/astrophy...