Re: [Philmont]: Water treatment, some more of the story

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From: Gary Dodge (dodge914@earthlink.net)
Date: Fri Aug 02 2002 - 10:58:11 CDT

One alternative approach that worked for those on our crew who followed the suggestion:

Bring your four Nalgenes as planned.  Make three of them the virtually unbreakable lexan variety and one of them the softer white plastic.  The lexans stay strictly water only and the white one is eligible for drink mixing.  This allowed the guys to take the extra energy boost of the orange or pineaple-orange drinks onto the trail with them in the morning or to have a gatorade lunch while still minimizing the number of contaminated bottles.  Worked out well!

Gary Dodge
611-C1
Old and feeble, but still a Fox.
 

"Alan R. Hamm" wrote:

 My only complaint was our ranger (who was great) always put drink mix into his Nalgene bottle.  We had convinced the crew not to do that and several had bought new ones to avoid having to put them into the bear bags at night.  However, rangers are COOL and the boys try very hard to emulate everything they do.  The result was that I think I was the only one that ended the week with clean Nalgene bottles.  Believe me, with the extra food this year, adding the sheer volume of 8 to 10 to 12 Nalgene bottles to a bear bag was often very difficult.  And a huge hassle as we were constantly putting the oops bag up and down to add the contaminated drink containers. 
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