Backpacking Tips for Beginners: How to Backpack : How to Carry Water & Hydrate while Backpacking: Online Backpacking Tips
Tuesday, September 8th, 2009 at
2:27 am
Learn how to make water drinkable on the trail, how much water to drink, and how to carry water backpacking in this free video.
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Has anyone made any packs in the last 2 years without a hydration pack?
thank you.. this video has been very helpful…
i would also like to know… that incase one travels in the snow… how then must he gather water…
i mean is it necessary to filter ice??
From what ive read it depends on the snow, if its fresh snow thats fell within 24hrs its safe to use with out filtering. But if its over a certain period of time it needs to be boiled because there are perasites or becteria which thrive in those conditions.
In a survival situation, remember to never eat snow. It actually causes more damage.
View it as drinking seawater.
takes more energy to melt snow in body and drains body heat big no no
Yes I have. Didn’t like it though Taking a hydration pack is very useful.
to quickly wet your mouth on a hike FRESH snow is a quick refresher… but in a survival situation… always ALWAYS heat the water… keeps your body from wasting calories and it keeps you warmer.
I have heard that only so much water treated with iodine can be drank. How much water treated wkith iodine is safe for me to drink in a 24 hour period?
These filter/purifiers should NEVER be trusted. Pumping directly into the bladder is a big mistake. Always boil or chemically treat any filtered water. Companies will not back their products no matter what you paid. Why should they? If you get sick it is always your fault. All of these popular sham devices should have warning labels. Waiting through a 2 week incubation period for giardia etc. is no fun and you will not know your filter was not working until it is too late.
i spent 3 weeks straight in the eastern oregon high desert and all we drank was iodine water, we got the water from cow ponds (really really disgusting) and none of us ever got giardia (sp?) or any other illness
That’s interesting. just trying to figure out why people are so concerned about iodine.
i dunno its prolly the taste or something, im sure if you drank it for a lifetime it could cause damage, but hopefully we wont have to do that.
like i said we all turned out fine at the end of the trip so its pretty safe to say you will too =]
It won’t cause damage. Iodine is actually an essential nutrient and does a lot of good in the body.
Im wondering if using a hydration pack would you be more tempted to drink water more frequently and therfore deplete it quiker???
a pretty useless video… He didn’t give any details on what to get. All he showed was a bladder, and a filter. No brand names, no size reccomendations, and no intruction on how to use.
youre right. he didnt mention anything important. or anything we didnt know
the bladder system is disgusting!! do you know how much bacteria reproduces inside of it???
nope, Camelback have PROVED that it doesnt, also, the military uses hydration bladders, and the military only settles for high quality stuff, so if they’re was a better way, the military would have it
Whether it means anything or not is personal opinion, but Ray Mears endorses this model of water filter by Pre Mac in the UK, and personally I dont think Ray Mears would endorse something he doesnt believe in because he doesnt seem like that type of person.
scargill8. AC/DC rules! I used a First Need purifier that I mistakenly trusted. It failed the test after my swamp trip. Of course the company denied fault. It must have gotten bumped. Boil or chemically treat or else. These companies only sell and play the odds that few will ever get sick. It is just too risky to trust any contraption or sales garbage. I now use bleach according to FEMA instructions after I use my “purifier” to remove trash. Good luck. Rock on!