Re: [at-l] Giardia's dirty little secret.

["Alice Kauzlarich" <kauzlar@madison.main.nc.us>]

By the way, I use a filter.

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> From: Alice Kauzlarich <kauzlar@madison.main.nc.us>
> To: at-l@backcountry.net
> Subject: Re: [at-l] Giardia's dirty little secret.     
> Date: Thursday, October 22, 1998 10:45 PM
> 
> All's I know about this subject is...
> 
> I see cows standing in the creeks here in the  Western NC moutains, hog
> sheds perched precariously over the creeks, etc. When I am hiking I do
not
> always know where the water has been. Granted, often you can be pretty
sure
> it is a good spring. However, sometimes you think you are at the source
of
> a spring and you are not. It has chosen to run underground for 50 ft. and
> resurface thereby looking like you are at the source. Perhaps you have a
> dead mouse laying in the spring back up 50 ft. from where that spring has
> resurfaced.
> 
> An added note...I drink spring water every single day from the mountain
> behind my house and I have not been sick in ages.
> 
>  The Highlander
> 
> Misers are no fun to live with, but they make great ancestors.
>                                                       
> 
> 
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