A cool shower about 45 minutes before bed, not a cold one. The point is not to be cold in bed, it is that the drop in body temperature afterwards is the same signal your body uses to start getting sleepy. Genuinely cold showers work against this because you clamp down and retain heat.
Sean
@septic_sean
Grew up on a farm with a drain field and can tell you exactly what not to flush.
Also check the quilt is not compressed anywhere. If you are strapping it tight enough that the down is flattened where the straps cross, you have created cold spots exactly where you were trying to seal.
Check your calories honestly though. Plenty of people carry about 2000 a day and burn far more, and the wall at 2pm is partly just that. I eat something dense every ninety minutes whether I feel like it or not, rather than waiting until I am hungry.
Rinsing feet in a stream at lunch and drying properly is worth the ten minutes on hot days. Grit is abrasive and it is doing some of this too.
Also worth asking whether 6:30 is the right anchor. Some people are genuinely late-shifted, and forcing a 6:30 wake against a 1am sleep onset just produces chronic short sleep, which is what you are describing. If your life does not actually require 6:30, an honest 7:30 that you keep is worth more than a 6:30 that costs you two hours a night.
I walk twenty minutes home in full sun. That is probably the cheapest thing on this list for me to fix.
That is the trade I have been unwilling to make and probably need to. Those days off are currently the only time I see anyone.
A lot of my water this year came from a glacier-fed valley, so that would explain it.
Soaked overnight and it went from a drip to maybe 60% of new. Ordering a spare and keeping this one as the backup.
If drilling really is off the table, the removable blackout panels that stick on with velcro or suction work better than they sound. Ugly during the day, genuinely dark at night.