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NoAngel wrote:
haha almost had that happen to me many years ago when those dumb button fly levis were the in thing. Last time I ever wore them.
The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.
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NoAngel wrote:
haha almost had that happen to me many years ago when those dumb button fly levis were the in thing. Last time I ever wore them.
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My most frustrating gear failure has to be my msr water filter. I was at the shelter on the BMT in the Smokies (early in my hiking life before I knew it was the BMT). There was barely a trickle and it was silty and my pump kept getting clogged. It took hours to filter water. I tried collecting it in my cook pot and letting the silt settle to the bottom...didn't work.
The part that made it bad is there were 5-6 other hikers at the shelter witnessing the debacle and frustration which made me upset and anxious.
I was too proud to ask for help, didn't want to look like a noob.
Damn it if later I didn't realize that I could have boiled the water for a little longer since I was heating it for dinner anyway.
Later, I read a post on WB about someone having trouble filtering water at that shelter on the same weekend I was there.Lost in the right direction. -
Not a gear failure but my failure... several times I forgot to check the batteries in my headlamp and found it was useless.
You know, it makes you realize that things like that aren't 100% necessary. Things were just fine without it. Except I didn't like the idea of carrying useless weight.Lost in the right direction. -
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NoAngel wrote:
get the regular Sawyer. The Katadin Befree is nice too BUT it only fits on their special bottle.
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NoAngel wrote:
don't get the mini. I have one of those too. The flow rate is like a clogged regular Sawyer.
Yeah, I got a mini first, but regular IMO is well worth the minimal weight penalty.The road to glory cannot be followed with much baggage.
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Astro wrote:
NoAngel wrote:
don't get the mini. I have one of those too. The flow rate is like a clogged regular Sawyer.
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uncle meat wrote:
I still like me hiker pro pump, though it does have a moving mechanical part susceptible to breakage.
This year hiking both The Laurel Highlands Trail and our recent short section in Maine we were the only ones that didn't use a
sawyer squeeze type filter.
I'm an old guy going old school
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