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 school textbooks tell you the settlers crossed the Atlantic for religious freedom.
Some of them did, partly. What the textbooks leave out is the thing that sits in the actual letters, in the sailors' accounts, in the merchant pamphlets circulating in English ports from the 1580s onwards: a major reason people came to America was the wild game. Meat you could take. Meat nobody owned. Meat that walked into camp.
For a population legally separated from the animal for five hundred years, this was the whole pitch.
Consider what they were leaving.
A family in a Devon cottage in 1618 eats pottage. Oats, barley, an onion, whatever greens grew near the back door. No meat in it this week. No meat in it last week. There will be meat in it on Christmas Day, God willing, if the chicken is still alive by then. The deer in the forest at the end of the lane have been the king's property under the Forest Laws since 1066. Taking one is a hanging offence. The father has never taken one. His father never took one. The institutional...
