[pct-l] Platypus in the desert?

[Tortoise]

Isn't that 5 liter wine bladders?


Tortoise

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Trekker4 at aol.com wrote:
> I've carried up to 4 half-gallon Platipi, all 4 empty and all 4 full, for  
> over 2,000 miles, including half the PCT - and never had a failure. I do  retire 
> them when the seams appear to be delaminating. I've also used 5-gallon  wine 
> bladders as water caches in the Chihuahuan Desert, with only 1 minor leak  -  
> just leaving them lying on the desert floor under a bush, marked as a  hiker 
> cache.
>  
> Bob  "Trekker"
> Big Bend Desert Denizen
> Naturalized Citizen - Republic of  Texas
> 
> In a message  dated 4/3/2008 9:45:02 P.M. Central Daylight Time, 
> vaporjourney at gmail.com  writes:
>  
> So Yogi  says in her book to avoid water bladders like Platypus.  A few  other
> people in the book say the same thing, and of course there are an  equal
> amount of people who say just the opposite.  Any opinions on  here regarding
> Platys?  Is it possible to be really careful with them  and not have these
> psychotic plants out there abuse them?  Are the  leaks just typical Platy
> leaks near the spout and at seams?  There are  obviously lots of people who
> rely solely on these bladders to hold their  water (Andy Skurka comes to
> mind) and it seems to work out ok.  Just  trying to find out the cause of the
> leaks and if its really the environment  that is causing them.  When carrying
> 7 L of water, it would be nice to  save a half lb of weight by carrying
> platys if  possible.
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