Re: [Philmont]: water purifier

We took three crews on council contingent to Philmont in 2001 and had very
mixed feelings on filters, purifiers and Polar Pure. I was with crew one,
and we always use the First Need purifiers on all trips. We generally carry
two of these units with us on trips. Our Scouts and adults have migrated to
this unit over time, so our Troop purchased a pair of them. Crew two had
three filters or purifiers, each one was a different brand. The units crew
two were using plugged up by day three, and became extra weight. We used
both of the First Need units for the entire trek, with no serious problems.
In fact, since crew two was our "sister crew," they asked us to purify water
for them on several occasions. We do use a coffee filter over the prefilter
on our units as part of our normal operations. This just keeps bigger
particles out of the unit, and is disposable. We filtered water at Wild
Horse camp that was pretty nasty, and got good clean water through the
purifiers. Other crews had Polar Pure water that was safe to drink, but was
very off color with particles in it.

If you follow Cooper's advice, and do lots of Prep work, whatever you use at
home will work in Philmont. Try Polar Pure and purifiers and see what works
best for your crews, than make it part of your normal operations.

Chas. Clifton
Scoutmaster -Troop 11
Port Neches, Texas
Advisor 708G2001
I used to a Bobwhite...SR-357, and then a Staffer...SR-439

Remember : We are in this program for the boys.......let them lead

In a message dated 3/28/2003 10:13:32 PM Pacific Standard Time,
douglas_wiss@hotmail.com writes:

> 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.

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Received on Sat Mar 29 10:31:09 2003