Anybody with experience with lifestraw?

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  • Hboy35

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    I have a camping trip planned to the back country and am considering a lifestraw for my water consumption to reduce weight in my pack.

    Anyone have experience with this? Did you ever use it to drink from streams/creeks/lakes? Taste? Get sick?
    thanks
     

    jetcycles

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    I carry and have used a life straw, but I consider it a survival item first and a camping convenience second. My suggestion (based on my limited experience living out of a canoe on a river for a week at a time) would be a Sawyer Squeeze or a Sawyer Mini filtration system and a transfer bottle for clean water storage. The life straw doesnt readily provide an efficient manner to gather water for cooking, washing up, brushing teeth, etc in my humble opinion.

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    toddnjoyce

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    The biggest drawback to the straw-type filter is that you still need a transfer/storage container. But, all water treatment systems need that, even the self contained bottles. Second biggest is you still want/need a pre-filter for the transfer/storage container.

    My primary H2O processor is a MSR sweetwater with either iodine tablets or steripen for viruses. There are much better places to lose pounds of weight on a backpacking trip than water treatment. Next to oxygen, water is the most important thing you’ll need to stay alive and healthy.

    I treat drinking and cooking water, cleaning may get treated or boiled, depending on circumstances.
     

    Dad_Roman

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    The biggest drawback to the straw-type filter is that you still need a transfer/storage container. But, all water treatment systems need that, even the self contained bottles. Second biggest is you still want/need a pre-filter for the transfer/storage container.

    My primary H2O processor is a MSR sweetwater ......
    This^^^

    MSR or Katadyn.

    Done a lot of backcountry with a pump. Chase uses a ---- and of course thats months on end. He only goes lightweight.

    (dont remember what he uses. Get back to ya later when I find out)

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    Hboy35

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    I carry and have used a life straw, but I consider it a survival item first and a camping convenience second. My suggestion (based on my limited experience living out of a canoe on a river for a week at a time) would be a Sawyer Squeeze or a Sawyer Mini filtration system and a transfer bottle for clean water storage. The life straw doesnt readily provide an efficient manner to gather water for cooking, washing up, brushing teeth, etc in my humble opinion.

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    This is just what I was looking for. Thanks so much! I will give the Sawyer system a look. thanks
     
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