Recent Posts Tagged With 'hydration'

• Water Purification in Winter

  Posted on Monday December 7th, 2009 at 23:45 in hydration, for beginners, water purification, winter hiking, chlorine dioxide tablets, health & hygiene

  If you plan on drinking water from natural sources or melt it from snow in winter, you still need to filter or purify it before drinking it. If you've read someplace that you don't need to purify water from melted snow, you are mistaken. The...

• Aquaguard Eliminator Inline Purifier

  Posted on Friday October 16th, 2009 at 00:00 in water filter, product reviews, hydration, water purifier, viruses, giardia, cryptosporidium, ecoli, gravity filter, inline purifier, hydration system, back flush

  I had almost given up hope of ever finding an ultralight inline purifier for my hydration system. I knew they existed in military circles because I have a friend who works at the US Military Testing Center in Natick, Massachusetts, but I could ...

• Water Purifier Preview: The Travel Tap

  Posted on Wednesday September 23rd, 2009 at 00:15 in water filter, hydration, water purifier, cross-contamination

    I really enjoy having so many backpacking and blogging friends in the UK, Europe, and the rest of the world. Especially, when it comes to staying abreast of the latest innovations in lightweight backpacking and hill walking gear and techniques...

• First Need Water Purifier Upgrade

  Posted on Friday July 17th, 2009 at 06:45 in hydration, water purifier, general ecology, first need, water filter cartridge, bottle adapters

  This past year, General Ecology, makers of the First Need Water Purifier system, changed their water purifier cartridges. The old cartridge model was called a First Need Deluxe (left) and the new one is called the First Need XL (right, in photo.) As ...

• Ultralight Gravity-based Water Filter Tests

  Posted on Wednesday May 6th, 2009 at 05:20 in water filter, hydration, Technique, platypus, chlorine dioxide, aqua mira frontier pro, gravity filter, inline purifier

    Over the past 2 weeks, I’ve been testing a gravity-based ultralight water filter system developed by Jason Klass that is based on the Aqua Mira Frontier Pro water filter. I learned about it from my friend Brian’s blog. I tire...