[pct-l] Water filters/purification

[Jeffrey Olson]

Eric Lee (GAMES) wrote:
> This is a very individual decision and there will be many points of view.
>
> On the other hand, there are some water sources (largely in Southern California but a few up north as well) where the water is so nasty that I'd _really_ want to filter it, and maybe use chemicals for good measure, too, before I'd drink it.  But then I guess I'm fairly squeamish about such things.
>
>   
One of my fondest memories was hiking with my girlfriend in 1991 from 
Lassen to South Tahoe.  Somewhere south of Lassen we dropped off the 
trail a couple hundred yards to camp by what turned out to be a fairly 
stagnant lake.  We did our nightly routine, me setting up camp and 
kitchen, she filtering water, which I hated to do.  We cooked our dinner 
and waited the appropriate half hour before drinking the newly filtered 
water. 

About a half hour after turning in and an hour before dark we both were 
hit with severe diarrhea. It lasted about an hour or hour and a half - 
until our bodies were purged.  We each had a favorite tree to go behind, 
and laughed and groaned and pretend cried the whole time, each with our 
own roll of tp, each madly dashing away and crawling & grimacing back.  
We'd settle back, exhausted, only to be slammed with another demanding 
wave. 

Thanks for kindling the memory!  :-)

Jeff, just Jeff (said in the style of "Bond, James Bond")