water water every where

Lostsheep

09/04/2012 at 22:48

I'm planning to walk the northern coastal route in Spain from Santander to A Coruna, at the end of May. How have you got on with Camelback hydration bladders? Im taking a fabric soft water container that I can carry seperately. what should I do about water purification? Tablets or a water purification system?

Salmon Shirted Panther

09/04/2012 at 22:55

I have a 2 litre platypus bladder that sits in the hydration pouch of my Pinnacle pack (it will accomodate a 3 litre one). I filter the water I gather through the Travel Tap, I think it is less of a faff than using tablets.

StoneHuggingHippy

09/04/2012 at 23:08

Woot woot.

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Mr Sworld

10/04/2012 at 01:39

Travel Tap... It rocks!

It worked for 9 days of GR20 but you need to drink every time you find water. Also it's worth taking a 1L Platy to make sure you have cooking water as a back up.

Sig's are a waste of bandwidth...

clare H

10/04/2012 at 13:30

I used the in-line "acqua-guard" filtration system attached to a 2 litre 'source' bladder stowed in my pack. It was superb. Fill up the bladder from any stream, drink direct from tube and bladder when I wanted without having to decant into a bottle and then hang the same bladder in a tree at camp and opened the tap for cooking water.

All my water needs in one bladder and one lump of filter.

http://www.drinksafe-systems.co.uk/products.php

Paddy Dillon

10/04/2012 at 15:07

I've never had a problem with water in Spain (nor the GR20 either). It seems that almost every village has some kind of public water 'fountain', and the ones that aren't drinkable are labelled as such. I've walked there for four or five weeks at a stretch, and just used public water supplies without ever resorting to buying water or treating it.

Zuma

10/04/2012 at 15:14

Don't want to depent on batteries (UV treatment, Miox) and dislike chlorine taste (tablets, drops). So my way of wtaer treatment when not labeled as drinakable is a portable katadyn filter. Fits perefectly on MSR and Ortlieb bladders (wide mouth bladders)