Originally Posted by
Rick
I am interested in what people carry to treat, filter or purify their water while touring.
Maybe start a new thread since this one is for another topic, but... I don't usually find filtering necessary on tour. When I do I have taken my Sawyer Mini.or before that my Sawyer Squeeze. Most of the time on road tours tap water has been available frequently enough. On the Southern Tier water was scarce, but surface water to filter was nonexistent in the places where I'd have liked to find it.
About the only tours where I found it useful were off road or in the sierras in really hot weather where it was nice to filter ice cold snow melt streams for a cold drink. Otherwise I leave it home.