[pct-l] Carrying Water

[Hiker97 at aol.com]

I use an 17 ounce Breeze Ray Jardine  style backpack (20 pound max load).  I 
put cheap light auto seat belt  should strap pads on the pack shoulder straps. 
 Works great in making the  ride a lot more comfortable.
 
For water, I just use my belly pack to  carry 4 empty Gadorate bottles for 
the water --- super light  containers.  On the Breeze I carry 4 more liter 
bottles if needed in the  side web pockets on each side.  No problem.
 
On the belly pack I have added two more  bottle pouches for the 2 extra 
bottles.  The fanny pack (turned around to  be a belly pack) came with two bottle 
holders.
 
To hold everything up better, I just  attached a strap through my lower pack 
shoulder straps and attached it to the  belly pack.  Now it does not slip down 
as I walk and stays in place very  nicely.
 
A simple system to carry 8 litters of  water if needed.  No problem at all.  
By the way, I use an Extreme one  litter bottle with water filter inside as 
one of the 8 bottles.  This way I  can simply keep refilling the Extreme bottle 
from the other bottles, so I have  filtered water all the time.  
 
This is a light flexible water system  that is simple to do and simple to 
use.  And it keeps your center of  gravity lower for safer and a more relaxed 
walking.
 
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