[pct-l] water consumption/capacity

[AsABat]

Even if your large container is bombproof, consider how you will get by if
it does leak, or in your exhaustion you crossthread the lid and the water
leaks out. Even though the container can be repaired, you are still out of
water, 15 miles from the next water source, and it's 110 degrees with no
shade.

2-liter soda bottles are cheap and relatively bombproof too, can be bought
in any town with a bonus tasty liquid inside, then recycled when you get to
town.

AsABat

>  >> On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Dan Africk
> >> wrote:
> >>> Definitely some good points about the security of multiple
> >>> containers, but
> >>> everything I read suggests that the dromlites are pretty
> >>> bombproof, and I
> >>> plan on treating it gently anyway, and I like the simplicity of
> >>> fewer
> >>> containers. Plus I'll have enough plastic bags and duck tape that
> >>> if there
> >>> is a failure, I can probably salvage most of the water(this
> >>> happened to me
> >>> once with a nalgene 3 liter canteen- not in a desert, but loss of
> >>> that
> >>> water
> >>> after I carried it up a mountain would have meant a very sketchy
> >>> trip).
>