[pct-l] CDC recommendations for water treatment

[Diane Soini of Santa Barbara Hikes]

On Oct 22, 2010, at 5:24 PM, Ron Dye wrote:

> There have been articles written that suggest the giardia threat  
> has been
> exaggerated.

This reminds me of I think it was Golden Oak Spring. There's actually  
an advertisement at the spring for one of the makers of water  
treatment devices. I think there may have been one or two others of  
these advertisements on the trail at a spring. It made me wonder if  
perhaps it's all hype meant to sell us more crap.

So many of the fears we have about hiking and being in the wilderness  
are overblown. I sometimes think it's a plot to make us believe that  
the source of life--nature--is dangerous and the killer of life-- 
civilization--is benign when in truth it is the opposite. All in  
order to sell us more crap and help somebody at the top accumulate  
more money.

That's the whole reason I went for a long walk on the PCT. I had a  
chance to measure wealth in things that truly matter to me:  
wildflowers, beauty, time.