Water Filters?

What style water filter are you using?

  • Pump

    Votes: 37 22.7%
  • Gravity

    Votes: 39 23.9%
  • Squeeze

    Votes: 61 37.4%
  • Ultraviolet

    Votes: 21 12.9%
  • Pills

    Votes: 2 1.2%
  • Other

    Votes: 3 1.8%

  • Total voters
    163
  • Poll closed .

Phaseolus

WKR
Joined
Feb 25, 2018
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I just finished a backcountry week with my new MSR Guardian. It filters water very fast compared to any other pump I’ve used and was a great choice for supplying three guys with water. The con is that it is heavy at 17 ounces.
 
Joined
Sep 7, 2016
Messages
1,797
Location
El Dorado HIlls
Steripen if its just me. If i'm hiking with a hunting partner I carry steripen and he carries my Platypus gravity works 4L. When we are running and gunning or just hiking around we use the steripen to keep our bottles filled. For camp water we fill up MSR dromdary bags at the creek /water source and bring back to camp and just keep dumping water into the gravity works filter. works money. Always have clean water on demand.
 

ianpadron

WKR
Joined
Feb 3, 2016
Messages
1,720
Location
Montana
Katadyn BeFree blows the old Sawyer junk out of the water (pun intended) by a wide margin. I've used both extensively backpacking/hunting over the last 5 years.
 

Wassid82

WKR
Joined
Dec 4, 2018
Messages
491
squeeze and gravity depending on how much water I'm trying to filter and how fast
 

fshaw

WKR
Joined
Jan 26, 2015
Messages
312
Have Katadyn ceramic a Pur Hiker and a Steripen that I got last Christmas Just did a weekend fishing trip and took the Steripen. It’ll be in my pack this fall.
 

MT_Wyatt

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Joined
Aug 20, 2014
Messages
1,920
Location
Montana
Had sawyer mini for years, got over scooping water and squirting into bladders. Have been running the MSR trailshot for two years and I’m done with it - it’s nice for filling a bladder and sucks some thin water as a hybrid pump, but damn is it fussy with priming. I’ve had multiple backpacking trips where the thing seems to lock up and won’t prime, which isn’t a hard concept, and I’ve reviewed the little tricks MSR says to do. Love the “shake” backwash. So done.

Looking at putting a Be Free on my 3L hydropak seeker, or Steripen. I always carry tabs for camp water or aqua Mira.
 
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