The La Colombe Dude Survived!
Remember we told you how Todd Carmichael, owner of La Colombe, was having some crazy mid-life crisis shit that forced him to walk over the tundra for like days on end? Well, guess what! Motherfucker actually lived through it. Damn.
JGT: How do you fight off dehydration when everything freezes immediately?
Todd: You just melt snow. Your day is like this. In the morning, well actually it’s always morning. But you wake up around five, you melt snow for like three hours and you try to eat something and keep it down. And the first four or five days, because of the altitude change, you get altitude sickness, and you can’t keep anything down. And you’re eating instant oatmeal, and that’s all you’re eating. After three hours, you start pulling. You’d think everything would be slippery, but it’s not. It’s more like sand. That was the first shocker, and I was like, “Aw man, I’m f*****.” It’s like dragging a sofa across the beach with people on it.
Jesus, dude. I can totally relate.
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