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Droppers on Long Hikes?


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    Roman Ryder
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    @romanla

    Locale: Southwest Louisiana

    I currently have my deet, soap, sanitizer, and sunscreen in BPL droppers. I'm only doing one resupply on the JMT, so I'm a little concerned I may run out. Any opinions?

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    Charles Grier
    BPL Member

    @rincon

    Locale: Desert Southwest

    If you are only taking one dropper bottle of each, yeah, you will likely run out. Probably the one that will go first will be the hand sanitizer. I used a one ounce HDPE Nalgene bottle for mine and ran out a day before reaching Guitar Lake on my final leg after a MTR resupply. I resupplied at Tuolumne Meadows and Red's Meadow on the first half and was fine with full dropper bottles. My DEET was in a BPL dropper bottle, my sunscreen was in a larger version of the dropper bottle. Of course, I went after mosquito season so used hardly any DEET.

    #1514814
    Jeff Riegner
    Member

    @jethro

    Locale: The Mid-Atlantic flatlands

    How have you found the droppers to work with more viscous liquids like sunscreen? Are they hard to dispense?

    #1514823
    Charles Grier
    BPL Member

    @rincon

    Locale: Desert Southwest

    "Are they hard to dispense?"
    In a nutshell, Yes! But, you can open up the nozzle using a heated needle.

    #1515540
    Henry Blake
    BPL Member

    @dragon

    Locale: Minnesota

    I've successfully increased nozzle flow to my liking for various substances with a drill bit.

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