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Re: Katadyn Base camp
Reply #20 - Apr 21st, 2010 at 2:38pm
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You're a lot more likely to get sick from poor campsite hygiene than from drinking untreated water.  Giardia originally came from people, not beavers.  People are still the source you are most likely to pick it up from, too.

Just pay attention to where you get your water and you can leave the expensive, easily compromised filtering equipment at home.  I bring a bottle of treatment tablets just in case I am unable to get water from a source which meets my minimal standards.

That said, there's no way you'll get me to drink from Lakes 1-4 and several other insanely popular lakes without treating the water.  I don't fear the beavers too much.  I fear the two-legged disease carriers much worse.
  
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Re: Katadyn Base camp
Reply #21 - Apr 21st, 2010 at 3:18pm
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Snow_Dog wrote on Apr 21st, 2010 at 2:38pm:
You're a lot more likely to get sick from poor campsite hygiene than from drinking untreated water.  Giardia originally came from people, not beavers.  People are still the source you are most likely to pick it up from, too.

Just pay attention to where you get your water and you can leave the expensive, easily compromised filtering equipment at home.  I bring a bottle of treatment tablets just in case I am unable to get water from a source which meets my minimal standards.

That said, there's no way you'll get me to drink from Lakes 1-4 and several other insanely popular lakes without treating the water.  I don't fear the beavers too much.  I fear the two-legged disease carriers much worse.

I'll concur with Snow_Dog.  I just make sure that I'm filling my water containers some distance from shore, unless the dipped water is going to be boiled before use/consumption.  That said, I can think of no place in the lower-48 where I'd choose not to filter unless the water was coming directly from a spring.

I did decide to try the Katadyn Base Camp filter a couple of seasons ago (mostly because I was traveling with other "new" companions).  It was a reasonably easy "swap" since I had been using a comparably-sized dry bag for that purpose (the one I use if from Cabela's and has an air-bleed valve at one end ... or should I say a water spigot).  The Base Camp worked well at the beginning of the trip, but I did notice a slow down before the 2-week trip ended.  Being that the trip was in late May/early June, I'd guess the filter started to become clogged with pollen ... which seems to be everywhere that time of year.  

I did take the filter on 2-3 trips, but I'm now back to my former technique for "far-north" traveling.

One should also note that things like Giardia CAN BE acquired through activities other than drinking water ... like bathing and swimming.  So a bit of caution should be exercised when doing these activities (unless you swim without stirring up bottom sediments Roll Eyes).

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Re: Katadyn Base camp
Reply #22 - Apr 22nd, 2010 at 6:57pm
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jjcanoeguide wrote on Apr 20th, 2010 at 4:53pm:
10 minutes for 1L of water.

If it's a model with a screw on lid for water bottles, did you screw the lid on tight?  Don't do that.  Air must be free to exit the bottle you're filling, otherwise it will chase up the tube and get caught in the filter.
  
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Re: Katadyn Base camp
Reply #23 - Aug 5th, 2010 at 9:09pm
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Well I have some thoughts on the katadyn base camp since I was able to put one to use recently. Bottom line was that if you weren't in a hurry it was fine. I found it frustratingly slow when compared to the platypus clean stream which I also own and have used.

The clean stream performs quickly and efficiently but holds less than 1/2 the water the base camp does. In my mind this is the way to go with 2 or 3 trippers.

Once I lowered my expectation level and got about other business and would eventually glance over at 1.5 gallons of water ready to use I was a bit more satisfied. There are some other drawbacks however. Scooping up a couple of gallons of water and then clambering up a potentially slick bank after a long day might invite an unexpected spill (and I ain't talkin water). It might also take a bit more thought concerning where to hang 10lbs of water to initiate the process.

If I had it to do over again I would stay with the clean stream I guess and just fill a bit more often.
  
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