[at-l] My Gear List - HELP!

[icw@xxxxxxxxxxx (Clark Wright)]

There is a company that makes a very lightweight nylon "waterskin" that
you can dip into a stream or splashable spring and scoop up about 4
litres of water, carry it back to your campsite/shelter, hang it on a
tree limb or shelter nail, and then pump/pour from.  It essentially is a
coated nylon square, with nylon strings at all four corners which allow
you to create the bag shape . . . anyone recall the name of this useful
product and who carries it?

thru-thinker

Russ A Drake wrote:

> That is something to look at.      I was emailing with "Charlie Foxtrot"
> and he used  a 4 liter bag to make one trip to the water source so he would
> have water for washing himself, his pot, for cooking supper/breakfast (
> coffee or tea )  and and enough to have water to get him on the trail again
> all in one water stop.... that is what I was looking at using it for...
> and during the day I was just going to put about 2 liters in it and call it
> good.
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> Sparky!
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>                     "Dave Hicks"
>                     <daveh@psknet.com>             To:     "Orange Bug" <orangebug74@yahoo.com>,
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>                     02/04/03 02:03 PM
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> For what it is worth, my experience with a 4 liter hydration bag took me
> toward carrying more rather than less weight.  I dumped it for a one liter
> hydration bag and additional one liter bottles or bags -- the aggregate is
> a
> few grams more that the 4 liter hydration bag.
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> Why?  Well with all my water in a single bag and with that bag
> out-of-sight,
> found that I was stopping at every water source to check how much water I
> still had left.
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> Now when I come to a source, I know that had I estimated my need to the
> next
> "reported reliable source" to me "x" liters and that "y" liters of that are
> still in my pack.  No need to stop and check how much I have left.
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> Chainsaw
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Orange Bug" <orangebug74@yahoo.com>
> To: <at-l@mailman.backcountry.net>
> Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 9:10 PM
> Subject: Re: [at-l] My Gear List - HELP!
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> You did a good job here. I wonder about the 4 liter platypus
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