Backpacking water filters are primarily a gimmick. A marketer’s dream. Take something in nature that is perfectly safe to drink 99.999% of the time and instead have people adopt, en masse, the common belief that they are going to get sick if they drink it without first running it through the contraption you want to sell.
Those of us who grew up drinking water straight from the source, and unfiltered, know better.
A woodsman’s water filter is not necessary nor useful most of the time. The only time they are necessary is when there is contamination close to where you are pulling the water from (if the contamination is not relatively close to where you’re pulling the water from, things in nature are already filtering the water for you).
This simple water filter here is perfection for the one time out of twenty that the water will be iffy and might need filtered. Simple, effective.
They’re selling them on Amazon here:
Delta Emergency Water Filter.... https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BQWNPL75?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share
…the myth, the legend.
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WARNING: This is a brief video of two people dying. The wife thought she was taking a picture of the event, but it was actually a video.
I have been in these intimate, private circumstances many times before with my own brain.
Nothin’ is better than round, uniform tins for hauling certain things. I’m really fond of them because they stack neatly and can save quite a bit on space. I get them off Amazon in two different sizes at a low price - a small, snuff-size can, and a larger can.
The only real drawback about them is that they can get beat up fairly easily, because they’re made out of really light aluminum. But for their low cost, I reckon it’s no big deal, since they’re easy to replace.
