[at-l] Re: gear lists

[seanbdolan@earthlink.net (Sean Dolan)]

Hiya

I dig the bottle attachment to the PUR filter ... it's pretty useful when you're filling water from a difficult water source and need both hands to pump and don't want to fiddle to keep the output hose in the container (since they very easily flip around on me). Also means you can basically put the bottle anywhere when it's filling and limits spillage.

Regarding camp water ... do you think 4 Liters (2 one liter nalgenes + a two liter platypus) is too little?

-----Original Message-----
From:	Jim and/or Ginny Owen [SMTP:spiriteagle99@hotmail.com]
Sent:	Wednesday, February 27, 2002 12:00 PM
To:	DTimm65344@aol.com; at-l@backcountry.net; seanbdolan@earthlink.net
Subject:	Re: [at-l] Re: gear lists

Black&blue wrote:
>I generally agree with what you write but there is one other reason to 
>carry
>at least one Nalgene bottle.  If your filter, like my MSR, screws on the
>bottle it saves you losing water as you pump like we used to with my
>brother's Pur filter - you can only balance it so well over the top of a
>mismatched bottle.  So I carry one to pump into.  I use Gatorades for the 
>rest.
>
>BTW, I never put anything but water in my water bottles as we discussed 
>some time back but TEHO.


We use a Pur filter (Hiker) with an output hose - haven't used one of the 
"screw on the bottle" type filters for a long time - actually it's in pieces 
in a box downstairs  :-))

One thing I realized after I sent that last post - Sean is missing a large 
water container.  If you're gonna march to the bottom of Peters Mt to get 
water, I'll guarantee that you only want to do it once.  So you want a LARGE 
(but light) water container.  REI sells what I think is called a water sack. 
  About 10 liter capacity, weighs 4 oz., can be blown up to use as a pillow. 
  Other places sell them too - I know Campmor has something like that - 
we've bought a couple of them there.
Don't be doin' the 5-gallon heavy plastic container - that's overkill, both 
weight and capacity-wise.

And if it's cold, be careful - you really don't want to be carrying even a 
small water container that's full of ice cause you forgot to empty (or 
protect) it overnight.  Ice is heavier than water - it's a head thing, not a 
gravity thing.   :-)))

Walk softly,
Jim

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