[pct-l] Aqua Mira water purifier tablets

[Kate Drum]

Does anyone use the steripen? I'm not crazy about chlorine or iodine,  
and impatient besides. I have had good luck with the magic lite,  
though not at first, the batteries wore down pretty fast, so I added  
the solar charger and extra batts. It still seems like magic -  
stirring a small lite to kill all those nasty things swimming around  
in your drink. It must work, I've used it for several years now with  
no ill effects. It's about 11 ozs., so if weight is your only issue  
then I guess the steripen is on the heavy side.

Dave

On Feb 6, 2010, at 6:38 PM, Diane at Santa Barbara Hikes dot com wrote:

> 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).
>
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