Best Sports Drink While Climbing

Post your vote! Any custom recipes?

A few years back I scored a metal travel cup with a lid that absolutely does not leak, so quite often the latte gets hiked in, lol!

But, when it's more than just short, dinking around cragging stuff, or a multiday trip like COR, the bottle of electrolyte caps lives in the Honda (where I'm usually sleeping for trips). Being really conscientious with those saves the day, and the trip. No amount of water keeps up with dehydration once I add in elevation gain and really dry climate. 

Then there were all those over 100° days last summer.....shitola, I am so hoping we don't have a repeat this year!

Now and then, simple chocolate milk is a nice one, but that's usually at the fitness gym.

Best, Helen

Limon Pepino Gatorade- the only acceptable flavor of Gatorade, but watered down 50% so it reduces that salty-as-balls aftertaste. Plus adding water to everything is economical as fuck. Ballin’ on a budget. You’re welcome.

Blue Gatorade cut with 50% water 

Djurite/Arapiles untreated bore water from the sink at the Pines campsite. Hard water for hard people. More minerals than your body has room for.

I think the Kiwis may have the strongest international entry here, they have this stuff in Aotearoa called "Raro", its dynamite.

Elijah S wrote:

Blue Gatorade cut with 50% water 

Maaaaaan I wanna argue with you on blue vs green Gatorade but there’s been so much hostility on MP lately, so I’m gonna keep it peaceful

Gatorade is sugar water. Pedialyte is ideal for hydration and electrolytes

Jamo and ginger ale. 

In all seriousness body armor.. but the occasional beer works good too

Pickle Juice

Water is usually sufficient. But I like the taste of nuun, and they have caffeinated and non caffeinated versions. Wish it were cheaper, but you can often find sales and stock up 

Made in Durango

Edit: And here's the ingredients.

Carbonated Water, Sugar, Acid (Citric Acid), Flavourings (Including Caffeine, Ammonium Ferric Citrate & Quinine), Sweeteners (Aspartame, Acesulfame K), Preservative (E211), Colours (Sunset Yellow FCF, Ponceau 4R).

Contains a source of Phenylalanine. Sunset Yellow & Ponceau 4R: May have an adverse effect on activity and attention in children.

Its the Sunset Yellow & Ponceau 4R that give it the edge.

Coors

For long endurance linkups in the mountains, the Gnarly Fuel is my secret weapon. Otherwise I drink water. Maybe a Nuun tablet if it's August and I'm sweatin like crazy.  

+1 for Tailwind (berry flavor). I use it for mtb races primarily but have also brought it on all-day routes and linkups.

Mixed at the recommended strength, it has a relatively neutral flavor compared to bottled drinks, so I can drink it all day without getting tired of it. The caloric value is high enough to prevent bonking, but I do bring a few other snacks for "psychological pro."

Traditional Gatorade users might benefit from adding some potassium salt to their bottles since Gatorade no longer had electrolytes. You can get a bottle for cheap at larger groceries. I used to add it to Kool-aid or lemonade packets to make homemade electrolyte drinks.

This is not a joke. Bone broth and the blood of your enemies(beetroot) for power.

Water 

Water, unless you’re going on an extreme endurance fest. Typical climbing for a day doesn’t require supplemental electrolytes. Most of it is just sugar water anyway.

On hot summer days, where I’m out sweating a lot, I prefer Switchel. A drink from the 1700’s.

Basically it’s; water, lemons, ginger, apple cider vinegar and brown sugar. Tweak your recipe to your liking. I use limes instead of lemons and very little sugar.

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