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Water Purification – Really?
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Oct 10, 2012 at 8:57 pm #1920112
Unless folks really object to the taste of chlorine dioxide at Philmont, the pills work fine and do not fail.
That being said, I love my Gravity Works but it does weigh more than chlorine dioxide pills, and it can fail. I had to replace a filter after taking water three times from a very small, warm pond at 9500 feet in the Sierra Nevada earlier this summer. I suspect that what Ryan Jordan would call biofilms clogged the little hollow tubes. No amount of back flushing would clear the filter. So I replaced the filter.
As to the zip lock on the dirty bag, seems to work fine on my 2012 model.
Oct 16, 2012 at 9:45 am #1921772I only used one Gatorade pack a day at Philmont (if that), and drank treated water the rest of the trek and never noticed a taste or aftertaste from the chlorine dioxide tabs. But I rarely had to drink immediately after waiting for the treatment to finish.
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