[at-l] filters?

[jmayer@rochester.rr.com (Jim Mayer)]

I used the SafeWater Anywhere "expedition" model (the 1 litre bottle) for 12
days last June.  It worked fine, and is now my filter of choice.  Of course,
I used it on the Mid State Trail in PA which has wonderful, clear, flowing
water when you can get to it.  I can't say how it would do with months of
cow pond water... I suppose it might work if you pre-filtered the water, or
carried a water bag and let the stuf settle.  Dunno.

I found the flow rate to be fine, and squeezing the bottle was not a
problem.

One nice thing about the SafeWater Anywhere filter is that you could easily
carry a spare filter element, although since I'd be carrying iodine anyway
I'd probably just put the spare element in a drift box.

Good luck!

-- Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mark Hudson" <hudsom@us.ibm.com>
To: <at-l@backcountry.net>
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2001 10:02 AM
Subject: [at-l] filters?


> Ok, being that I figure that hiking on the Colorado Trail is going to
> require lots of hydration, I'm looking for the most effective way of
> dealing with water treatment. I just got a water bottle from Sierra
Trading
> Post, where the filter fits underneath the cap. Unfortunately it requires
> two hands to put enough pressure on the bottle to get water through the
> (new) filter, and then the flow rate is rather weak, so this doesn't seem
> like the solution I was hoping for - it might work on the AT, but for
> trying to get enough cow pond water through the flter in the hot sun at
> high altitude I have my doubts. For those of you using the SafeWater
> Anywhere inline filter, how good is the flow?
>
> skeeter