[pct-l] Water treatment practices

[Junaid Dawud]

I carried my MSR miniworks EX water filter the whole
way(mex->snoqualmie).  If I were to do it again, I'd
ditch it at KM and switch to Aqua Mira for those few
Sierra sources that are suspect.  Mostly I wouldn't
treat water between KM and Tahoe.  There after, Aqua
mira would probably be just fine until Canada.

my 2 cents

--------------Speshul41


--- Tom Bache <tbache at san.rr.com> wrote:

> I'm curious about community attitudes to water
> treatment.  I wonder about
> the fractions that always treat, sometimes treat,
> and seldom or never treat.
> I fall into the latter category.
> 
> I do a lot of backpacking and day hiking around the
> calendar (live in San
> Diego), and only treat on those rare occasions when
> I have to use water from
> obviously sketchy sources.  In good places like the
> Sierras, I never treat.
> I mostly go solo, so I don't know what others do. 
> However, I did see a lot
> of people drinking water directly from the streams
> when I traveled up the
> JMT/PCT, so I know I'm far from the only one.  I've
> never had any problems.
> I'm one who believes the articles saying that the
> probability of problems
> from giardia and other water-born bugs is grossly
> exaggerated, so I think my
> good fortune is mostly due to being careful about my
> hands being clean
> before touching food.
> 
> It is hard to beat falling on your belly for a
> l.o.o.n.g drink from a cold
> mountain stream.  I suspect that a lot of people are
> denying themselves that
> pleasure unnecessarily as they spoil the moment with
> tedious pumping and/or
> taste-spoiling chemicals.  But perhaps I've been
> lucky or happen to be on
> the right side of the human distribution of
> vulnerability to water-borne
> bugs.
> 
> Since water-treatment practices have a significant
> effect on the hiking
> experience, I thought it useful to have a thread
> collecting some community
> experience and opinion.
> 
> Tom Bache
> San Diego
> 
> 
> 
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