Be Unfree Drip Filter

“If it can drip….continue the trip.”

Maybe you can hook up on a hike with Johnny Cochran.

Nice attitude by the way! I remember as a kid when our family and our cousin’s family all missed the boat from Stehekin back down lake. (My grandpa had a huge cabin that’s still  standing strong). Anyway, he just said, ‘so what, we get another day to fish’ and that’s what we did.

While I get the slow down, enjoy the scenery sentiment, having a failed filter that is unrecoverable in the field isn’t a good thing and this is just another validation Befree isn’t for me.

Great attitude, I appreciate it. Helps me put mine in perspective. Thanks for the tip. I use these and I check flow rate before any big trip or check every other trip while at home. If with my wife, she carries one and I carry one. With glacial rivers here in Alaska, they slow down quickly. Rinsing them out in the river or just shaking the bag with clear water with the filter screwed in has helped clean it a bit. I then clean them at home.

Is there anything up the river in Alaska that would need a filter?
I have some doubts.

Cheers

^^ yeah the need for filters is often over-rated; but then Roger we’re old enough to remember the time before filters, though I do seem to vaguely remember something about iodine.

Daryl you need to quit hiking in all those rugged mountains    ;) too much sediment.   I also  really enjoy hanging the sawyer filter cause  get it flowing and then go off and enjoy something else while I’m getting my water filtered.

But I also like the Be-free when I’m on the move and in areas where the water doesn’t have a lot of suspended solids. I also look for spots where the water is  still and calm and the suspended solids have a chance to settle out.

“I also look for spots where the water is  still and calm and the suspended solids have a chance to settle out.”

Good advice.

The culprit is often dissolved minerals, which is a challenge to deal with. When Im in known areas with that issue, I back flush the Sawer Squeeze. As the BeFree uses a diff technology it gets a different result. Food fot thought.

^^ Another reason to use the Sawyer in situations like for ex Salt Creek in the Needles. I’d use the Sawyer for hikes in the 4-corners, and maybe some really ‘stirred up” alpine locales. The be-free works fine like along the AT. I’ve had no problems in Glacier or the Winds BUT I was careful about where I took on water avoiding fast stirred up water that likely had a load of suspended solids.