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Sitting and Day Dreaming => Mud Puddle => Topic started by: mynameismud on May 30, 2020, 03:57:39 PM
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Brad, which steripen do you use?
Thanks
Mud
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Brad, which steripen do you use?
Thanks
Mud
I didn't know there was more than one?
I'll go get mine and text you a photo?
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I didn't know there was more than one?
I'll go get mine and text you a photo?
Apparently I use the "Adventurer" model. I assume you got the photos?
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yep, thanks
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Just use iodine
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Just use iodine
And wait 45 minutes for it to finish treating.
And carry that water while it is treating.
Nah. I can carry no to half a liter of water, treat it when I get to it and drink it then.
The older I get, the less I care to carry.
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The more water and stuff you carry the slower you are and the longer it takes to get to more water.
For backpacking I like the normal size sawyer squeeze filter. Carry one large smart water bottle of "dirty" and one quart sized clean drinking water bottle.Filter enough to fill the clean bottle and the rest is backup until you get to next source. filtering water takes time.
Riding a bike I can see how the steripen could come in handy. Smart water bottle might bounce off the bike somewhere roll down hill etc.
I had a climbing partner once that had the steripen. My only dislike was that sometimes in the sun it was hard to see the lights on it.
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Look at you all - geeking out on gear :lol:
If you want to get there faster and easier just dry up and blow away :ciappa: :devildevil:
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Shhhh. I like to keep all my water filters on a peg board in my laundry room. Sometimes I pull them down and filter some toilet water. Then I write all the results down in a little note book.
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@ Noal, made me laugh.
I am trying to work out a solution for longer gravel type rides around here. I have a normal sized sawyer but it is mostly plugged and the bag sprung a leak. There on many of the rides it is easy to find clear running water in which case I think a steripen could work. I have found sometimes when the water is shallow it can be difficult to fill the sawyer bag. I am bouncing between a filter, steripen and a sawyer bag type solution.
Iodine takes 4 hours to kill crypto.
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Riding the bike around here the last month or so I have been thinking of carrying the filter with me but I do not like using the bag with the Sawyer. I usually just use a water or soda bottle with the same thread. Most of the water at parks has been turned off and for awhile there some of the small stores were closed.
Yesterday when I got inside of Portola Redwoods they left all the water on which was awesome. Noted that for upcoming hot days.
In any activity outdoors I have grown to realize that hydration and fuel are the key to going all day. I'm sure everybody has a story about the time when you ran out of water.
Another big mistake eating the wrong kinds of food. I mailed myself a big bag of jellybeans in a resupply once..........
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In any activity outdoors I have grown to realize that hydration and fuel are the key to going all day.
Another big mistake eating the wrong kinds of food. I mailed myself a big bag of jellybeans in a resupply once..........
Just carry a flask filled with whiskey and a bag of dark brown sugar - done!
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Shhhh. I like to keep all my water filters on a peg board in my laundry room. Sometimes I pull them down and filter some toilet water. Then I write all the results down in a little note book.
I keep mine in individual compartments in a hermetically sealed, temperature and humidity controlled vault.
I filter the water from my sewer drain and then record the results in a password protected spreadsheet.
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My last two longer rides I got fairly dehydrated. During the last ride I passed one water source thinking I would hit another and did not until well after I had spots in front of my eyes and everything was fuzzy. That was thanks to a long, steep and sun exposed hill climb. I had a doctor tell me this is really bad and should be avoided. I did not have the heart to tell him just how many hours of my life had been spent with fuzzed out eyes. I finally found water coming out of a road cut and drank about 30 oz of water. My temps finally came down and my eyes cleared up. The Sawyer leaked and was quite difficult to push water through. That is what made me think of the Steripen. At least with the Steripen I could just sit there and veg while it did its magic.
I agree keeping hydrated and eating the right food is essential. Took me a bit to recover from that beating. When I was younger it seemed like I could power through the dehydration and lack of food easier. Now it seems to really kick my ass.
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At least with the Steripen I could just sit there and veg while it did its magic.
That's the nice thing about the Steri-Pen. You can be drinking safe water within two or three minutes of arriving at the source.
Just make sure that you don't run out of batteries (I always have a second set with my pen).
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Sheesh!
It’s about key essentials...toilet paper, almond joys.
I can blather on and on about expedition foods.
I am lazy and have an mat ceramic filter.
Funny note, 2yrs ago I was mtn biking on skyline with zero water.I came down the trail near the mid pen camp near alpine road. There was a water source saved!!!...I drank a bunch and refilled...dodged a bullet!
Next year while riding the same trail, there was now a sign above the water source....non potable.
Damn, it sure tasted good.
JC what filter do you use to purify the Santa Cruz water??
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The Sawyer leaked and was quite difficult to push water through
This has happened to me too. I screwed the filter down really tight to a bottle and dislodged this plastic washer in the Sawyer. Water was leaking out the sides etc.
Damn, it sure tasted good.
The water around Black Mountain/Longridge is good. The guy at the chestnut farm told me his well water has won awards for best tasting in U.S. (never knew there were water tasting events)
Found a spring once above horseshoe lake at skyline open space that has really good water.
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JC what filter do you use to purify the Santa Cruz water??
I use a modified sippy cup that I equipped with a homemade cartridge filled with a mixture of black and green moss, orange lichen and bentonite that I mine from a secret spot at an unmentionable place.
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I use a modified sippy cup
Can also be used as a bong.
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Can also be used as a bong.
Bubbles!
We'll need to change the thread title to Water filtered smoke/putrification :arf:
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Ha! JC, figures you would filter it with the volcanic vomit as it’s high in potassium. You should filter that Santa Cruz water I think they get it from up past Felton.
I am lucky, I get to drink the stolen Yosemite water from hech hechy.
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I agree we are lucky. My favorite water spigot is the one on the side of the road by the Tuolumne campground. Good stuff.
My biggest water spigot disappointment was that one at roads end in kings canyon that mounted on a rock. It's like wow cool first time you see it. The water is kinda flat that comes out of it. Pinnacles water is kinda flat but not as bad as Red Rock campground. That water is not very good.
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...but not as bad as Red Rock campground. That water is not very good.
That doesn't count as water though. They treat it, truck it in and store it in tanks. Yuck. I usually take a few gallons of my home water with me for red Rocks.
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The water around Black Mountain/Longridge is good. The guy at the chestnut farm told me his well water has won awards for best tasting in U.S. (never knew there were water tasting events)
Found a spring once above horseshoe lake at skyline open space that has really good water.
Makes sense since it doesn't have livestock or other crap. The MidPen source was on the other side of horse lake. my guess is they don't want to test it, discourage folks like me. Or they got a bad test results. I'll have to check again this weekend.
I do have to admit my favorite water was from Tuolumne meadows. I used to bring home a 5 gallon jug of it.
Worse tasting was glacial melt water on the Grand Teton. Little did I know that would be it for the next 24hrs.
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I ordered the Ultra since it is rechargable
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Water isn't for talking about.
It's for fighting over.
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This post reminds my of the valley urban legend of the all beer accent of leaning tower.
I think it’s do able, but all the empties....got carry up with you.
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I think if you are drinking cheap beer pabst, miller lite, budweiser etc that is totally doable. I would go a week or so just drinking cheap beer and forget to drink water. If you are used to drinking a lot of that kind of beer you can drink 3 or so an hour and not really get drunk. Drinking cheap beer is hard work. All that pissing. Water filtration of sorts.
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How is having sex in a canoe a lot like Coors Light?
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^^^
They're both fucking close to water.
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Well I told Jenny to get lite beer....save$&.
She came home with Coors Lite.
It is the water! Not so bad.
Remember these are tough times and we have to adapt.
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My friend used to drink Milwaukee's Best lite. Huh?!
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...best lite.
Irreconcilable contradiction in terms.