[pct-l] Aqua Mira water purifier tablets

[Diane at Santa Barbara Hikes dot com]

Once you use the filter, it weighs a whole lot more because the paper  
in the filter becomes saturated with water. I always pumped out the  
leftover water, but it is still closer to a full pound when wet.

Still, I think where water is more plentiful, it might be worth it  
since you are carrying less water overall. If you are still filtering/ 
purifying by that point.

I found the water in So Cal to be a lot cleaner than I expected. You  
would think drinking out of cattle troughs would be disgusting, but  
you actually get the water from the pipes dripping into the troughs.  
So actually needing to filter visible particles out of the water is  
infrequent.

Diane

On Feb 6, 2010, at 6:26 PM, pct-l-request at backcountry.net wrote:
>
> If you carry more than 11 ounces of extra water (less than a pint)  
> when using Aquamira then why not carry a water filter?  For example  
> the Katadyn Hiker weighs in at 11 ounces (again just an example no  
> endorsement here).