[Philmont]: water purifier

On the subject of water purifier at Philmont ,my scout hiker can be equipped with either the regular filter matrix or a iodine filter matrix. Seems to me that the iodine matrix would take care of the situation keeping the Polar Pur as back up. To me the filtered water through the iodine matrix tasted a little better than the Polar Pur? Took two filters on our first trek in 96, first camp was at Deer Lake Mesa, our water supply came from a small impoundment that was the color of real strong coffee. Pumped 12 quarts when both pumps plugged badly. Cleaned and they plugged before we got all the bottles filled used polar pur the rest of the trek. The crew's thought on pumps was ,to hard to pump, to heavy. They didn't go on our other two treks. Don't get me wrong I think the Pur Scout is a great filter use it here in Kansas all the time but out at Philmont I think it is just extra weight. just a thought I think it was at Indian Writings, does the water still smell like rotten eggs from the high sulpher content?

Doug Wiss
use to be a Fox nc-398 w and use to be a staffer too!

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Received on Sat Mar 29 00:13:02 2003