Quote Originally Posted by lph View Post
Yup, that was another thing. We were in Thailand at the time to rock climb (the climbing there is awesome!, absolutely spectacular), and I quickly realized I just had to get used to climbing soaked with sweat all the time, even in the shade. At home I'd get all nervous and chalk up if I had even slightly damp hands, but in Thailand I just had to suck it up and keep climbing. Our chalkbags were pretty useless. (Heh, especially after I fell off this one route overhanging the water, and ended up with a chalkbag full of sea-water.)
That sounds just like hiking in the jungle in Belize during the summer. The scenery and birds were absolutely spectacular, but you do have to be able to tolerate basically being soaked to the skin in sweat the entire time, through your underclothes, dripping off your face. It's not like cycling where you can create a breeze in hot weather because you're moving fast. My DH loved it, but I was dying. It was just so very uncomfortable. But we were traveling "off season" when lodging rates were low, so that is what we had to deal with. Not a fan.