Ultimate Camping Thread

S&C is awesome! that is where i scored my jetboil for $60.

 

nice!!! you will like it. I have 2 of them. the smaller one and the big blue one.

 

would you recommend their water filters? last one i had was some bargain brand... POS. Need a new one for all the hiking/camping i plan on doing.

 

40lbs?? What the heck do you plan on taking. My pack fully loaded with a weeks worth of meals is 22.6lbs, and that is with convenience items!!

 

I have the one without the straw. you squeeze the bottles instead and it sucks up through tthe filters and out the top. Love em!!!! OH... One warning Lisa... when you get yours, run about 2-3 bottle threw before actually drinking. Both of mine had excess carbon that came out the first few bottles. it was nasty looking

as far as the question about the filters... I have never run into any issues in the 5-6 years I have owned them. Being that I don't get to backpack that much, I change my filters once every other year regardless just to be safe. try to pull out of a decently clean stream as well. that will definitely help preserve the filters and when you are not using it, make sure the filters get dried properly. I take all of mine apart (3 sections: carbon filter, paper filter, and some other piece) and let it sit out to dry.

 

Thanks for the info Aaron! much appreciated! Now for the never ending quest in search of spare money...

 

Since you're all talking filters. Any experience with higher volumn filters. Something that would suffice for 2 people on week long excursions, but not so large as to be a hassle on shorter weekend trips...?

 

That's not base weight. That includes 2 qts water (max I carry, mainly over dry, high passes) and 1 qt port, but all in Platypus bags, which are way lighter than Nalgenes. That's for a 9 day drip going up the back side of Whitney, so it includes a little extra food. Need a bear can, fuel for that long, half the group gear (tent, water filter), Thermarest and Thermarest camp chair (big creature comfort), appropriate, but still light, layers for anything in the High Sierra/above 10k feet and higher at all times. Sony point and shoot camera w/ extra battery. Trekking poles. My old NF Snow Leopard pack weighs 6 lbs. I am aiming to trim about 2 lb with a new pack if I can. We weigh everything, and have trimmed everything we can so far...

Hell no. She carries the kitchen. Honestly, for a skinny girl, she is a freaking mountain goat with long legs. She goes.

 

Don't most filter systems suggest you wash them before using? I know my old MSR pump (don't recommend) suggest that as did the Katadyne.

And good call on the Platypus. Also, if you drink wine, they'll hold a bottle with no air gap

 

A buddy of mine posted this on my FB. Charge your electronics while you cook.
http://www.biolitestove.com/CampStove.html

 

hehehehe yeah i didnt know that

 

Hell yeah, Platypus FTW. I bought 3 1qt bladders. And the bottoms bellow out so they are free-standing.
1. Water
2. Nuun (electrolyte) mix
3. Port (we called it passport, because it had to last more than a week, and we only enjoyed it in camp on days that we went over a pass .

I attached a hydration tube to one, and this stays outside the pack and clips onto a strap. The second also stays outside. Easy to swap and fill, no big, heavy hydraiton bladder in the pack.

Platypus actually markets a wine-specific one, but it costs more and I think it is BS. Just use a normal one..

 

bahaha story of my life!

I have the Katadyne Hiker filter. I love it. It fills up my camelback (2 liter) bladder with the quick connect system in the hose in about 1 min of pumping. It is also pretty easy to assemble and everything and get going on filtering water

I never washed mine. All I did was run a few of the bottles or pumped the Kat. Hiker for a bit and have been fine. Has a plasticy taste for a bit but that is all.

I just put it all back together when I store it. Haven't had any issues with it. Also makes the pieces inside less likely to get cracked or something if they are snapped together.

 

I got one of these, too, after I threw my old Sweetwater off a cliff while screaming my head off. The Hiker is great. Fast, simple.

 

My buddy has a sweetwater and I have used it once and wanted to throw it in the river

 

I have a hiker and love it. Been using it a long time and found that replacing the ceramic and maintenance is easy. simple and straight forward

 

well i'm sold. going to buy the hiker. i recognize it, a buddy of mine has that one. and it does work well. thank you TW! what would i do without you!? i'd be even more lost...

anyone have a hennessy hammock? or experience with them? i'm looking at the explorer deluxe... i'm a tall guy, with the typhoon fly, because it seems every time i go camping... it's a monsoon 90% of the time...