Re: [Philmont]: Water Filters (& GPS)

Can't resist putting in my $.02 Both subjects of endless (but fun)
debates.

Water Filters - Of course you "can" get by with Polar Pure, but both
the Treks I've been on liked having the filtered water better. At one
of our campsites, the only water was from an incredibly silty stream,
following some intense rain.

We tried letting it settle and using bandannas, etc. Without the
filter we'd have had no drinkable water. Ours was an MSR Waterworks,
which was easily cleanable (an important point). We got by with one,
but two would have been nice. Using a coffee filter as a "pre-filter"
helps in silty water.

GPS - as with the filter, you don't really "need" it, but having a
Garmin with the downloadable Topo maps (and waypoints you can easily
find for Philmont camps) was lots of fun. We didn't have any accuracy
problems (the newer units have WAAS), and a couple of sets of lithium
batteries were more than enough (I didn't have it on ALL the time).

Mike Corrigan
Troop 72 / Glenwood, MD

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Received on Mon Jan 5 11:22:06 2004