H2O for Camping

[Warhammer]

When you go camping in a fairly remote area (no campground with faucets at every site), how much water do you bring and how do you carry it?

[Buildit]

Usually a 1liter bottle and a 1l camel back bladder in a camel back pack. Sometimes I'll sneak a mnt dew in the tank bag. lol

[chris swann]

ive never carried water , i just get it out of a creek .

[TravellingStrom]

I always carry water down here, you can die without it! When I travel the states I will carry water then also, in a 3lt camel back bladder, most of that I would drink while riding.

It depends on what you want to drink during the evening, if you have an esky full of ice and a slab of XXXX, then who needs water :)

Cheers
TS :)

[T3/T4 Hybrid]

ive never carried water , i just get it out of a creek .

WarHammer, I do the same but filter it before drinking. I use the sweetwater pump filter. http://www.msrgear.com/watertreatment/sweetwater.asp

When I use to have time :rolleyes: I would fly out and going camping in the Colorodo Rockies each summer. Just a regular size water cantene was all I needed.

[Smellyhound]

WarHammer, I do the same but filter it before drinking. I use the sweetwater pump filter. http://www.msrgear.com/watertreatment/sweetwater.asp

When I use to have time :rolleyes: I would fly out and going camping in the Colorodo Rockies each summer. Just a regular size water cantene was all I needed.
+1 on the Sweetwater. MSR also makes some really decent bladder bags as well. http://www.gearreview.com/shop/prod_details.php?sku=CAS0327

We have some issues in some issues with Cryptosporidium, and Giardia around here. While most water is fine to just drink, you never know what is and what isn't. After watching my sister in-law suffer through a bout of Crypto for almost a month, I religiously use the filter and drops. She didnt even drink anything. She got it from mud at a dirt race track. The watering truck was refilling from a pond out in the sticks. Bad bad shibby... you don't want it.
As for drinking out of creeks. I was hiking the East slopes of the Cascades, and passed a couple guys drinking and washing their faces out of a little creek that frequently crossed and followed the trail. Further up the trail, there was a bunch of horse shit laying in the creek where it crossed the trail:yikes:. I've seen people pissing in creeks as well. Not to mention the time I was fishing a nice little brook, only to find a dead bloated cow corpse wallowing in the middle of it... man what a stench:???:. I personally try to use clear standing water whenever possible... but that's just me. There are just too many inconsiderate assholes out in the woods anymore, and a lot of them think that a creek/river/stream counts as a form of plumbing. :bom_furious3:

[tmcgee]

When you go camping in a fairly remote area (no campground with faucets at every site), how much water do you bring and how do you carry it?

I carry as much bottled water as will fit in with the luggage, no matter where I go.

[10guy]

I carry an ice chest because I like cold drinks. When I start out I have some water bottles that I've frozen, they provide water for the next couple of days. I personally make sure I have enough food and water for three days when I'm traveling because I'm usually by myself and far from civilization. When the ice water runs out I just fill the empty bottles when I get fuel or food.

[Genocache]

I use a Katadyn ceramic filter. It filters most of the baddies out there! Is field strippable and cleanable. Filters LOTS of water. I have used it on 22 day mountain biking trips where it filtered at least 5 liters per day with no problems. Recommended by a friend who has had hers for 10 years of backpacking.

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[Skinnifatkid]

Water weighs a lot, Katadyn filter may be a pound. If and when I start to do some back country roads/trails and camping, the water filter will be in my gear. As perviously stated, there are too many JACK-A's out there that don't consider the impact they make when they gut their (Inset Critter) and clean everything in a river/stream. Beaverfever is not something you need while riding or sitting still at home for that matter.

Here is a link explaining it, not trying to be insulting to anyone, only helpful! The poops are the poops! :puke: :mod2_001_9898:

http://medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Beaver+fever

[maggot]

I'll figure in about 2 liters a day for as long as I going.

If I need water for washing or dishes, I'll get it from a lake, pond, river etc, and boil it first..
I'd drink it after it's boiled as well.

Ken

[The Golden Monkey]

I'll figure in about 2 liters a day for as long as I going.

Maybe 2 liters/day is enough in Canada, but down here you would be seriously dehydrated. As others have mentioned, a filter is the way to go for anything longer than a day. Just make sure you know where water sources are! A lot of streams run dry during the summer months, and not just in Texas. I was backpacking in the White Mts of NH a few years ago, and got into a tricky situation where the maps showed streams near our campsite, but they were dry and it was getting dark so hiking back down the mountain to the stream we passed at the bottom wasn't a good option. Eventually we found a little stagnant pool and filtered enough water to get us through the night -- it was still greenish and tasted bad, but the filter did its job.

The SteriPEN is the smallest water treatment device available (other than chlorine or iodine, which don't always kill all the harmful stuff), and apparently works very well. http://www.steripen.com/