[pct-l] Iodine as water treatment?

[ruffwork]

You might want to read the wiki page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_water_purification
as it covers lots of stuff about water filtering.  I have used Iodine (back in the 1980's), chlorine dioxide,
and filtering.  I prefer filtering (Iodine tastes really bad and chlorine dioxide takes too long).
Last year I used a Frontier Pro filter (it goes on your H2O bottle and you suck the water thru the filter),
but the water flow is really slow (and I hate working for water when it's 100+ outside ;-).
This year I take Micropur as a backup to my filter (MSR HyperFlow).

ruffwork
The road goes ever on and on...

On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Shay Blackley <shayblackley at gmail.com>wrote:

> So I'm wondering if others have Thru-hiked the PCT with Iodine as their
> sole
> source of water treatment. I've hiked the AT with just iodine and thinking
> about doing the same for the PCT.
>
> Any thought would be wonderful especially if you have done the PCT with it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Shay "Wander" Blackley
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