beginner's question (again): filter if boiling?

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Re: beginner's question (again): filter if boiling?

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I filter. Too many known cases of giardia, and waterways in the national parks have tested positive for other things like e coli.

I actually filter water for cooking so I don't have to bring it to a full boil. Use less fuel that way. Why boil and wait for it to cool down so you can drink your tea?
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A somewhat dated study, but at least by a Doctor: http://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/news/article/6838" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I still filter, but not for dinner water. full boil.
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From 71 to 83 I never treated water. Then in Garner Basin I got a really bad bug for 12 days. I then filtered my water (what a lot of hard work) from 83 to 96. After that I became very self disciplined and began using the tablets. Using both types of tablets the water tastes great. With them you plan ahead and use the timer on your watch (do you have self discipline)? That really saves a lot of hard work. It's sooo easy and tastes great.
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Cross Country wrote:From 71 to 83 I never treated water. Then in Garner Basin I got a really bad bug for 12 days. I then filtered my water (what a lot of hard work) from 83 to 96. After that I became very self disciplined and began using the tablets. Using both types of tablets the water tastes great. With them you plan ahead and use the timer on your watch (do you have self discipline)? That really saves a lot of hard work. It's sooo easy and tastes great.
Tablets.. yuk.. Filtering. 65 pumps per 32 oz. big deal.. I expend more energy fishing 3 casts than that.
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Russ and I have talked on the phone about this before. The tablets are NOT yuk. He and I are friends and he's wrong and I'm right.
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guyd is already out there; filtering and boiling. Just hoping he likes his visit. He had the right mindset for the visit. Hoping for a great TR..
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Cross Country wrote:Then in Garner Basin I got a really bad bug for 12 days.
Then if it was Giardia, it was picked up 1 to 2 weeks before that. "The symptoms of Giardia, which may begin to appear 1–2 weeks after infection..." sez my reference sources.

The Sierra flushes out the lakes and streams every year and the frequency of reported cases of Giardia has gone down in recent years. As I said before, choose your sources carefully, which I do, and if I don't like my options, I use the tablets.
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Cross Country wrote:Russ and I have talked on the phone about this before. The tablets are NOT yuk. He and I are friends and he's wrong and I'm right.

So I take it he's just ragging on you. Yeah, I find that the Vitamin C completely takes out the iodine taste. I've never filtered water in my life.
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I went to the doctor. He did a biopsy or a culture or something. It wasn't Giardia. I don't remember what it was.
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I don't filter or boil either.
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