Backpacking Myths

There are other reasons to filter water besides removing giardia.

Like crypto-sporidium, a nasty cyst.
And dysentary.

I once got giardia by drinking water from a fast-moving stream. Unbeknowst to me there was a croud of low-lifes 3 miles upstream.
And recalling a incident from my hippie past, I once came upon a commune way way up in the mountains above Big Sur. Very remote with a pure pristine stream.
Except when a deer dies and falls into the stream and you don't know it.
Everyone there had dysentary.

 

i know this and in my day-to-day life i try to maintain healthy, regular bathroom habits. however this doesnt need to mean that i look forward to doing some business out in the woods three times a day........

i dont do much backpacking these days, but i dont think theres any serious concern about it not being healthy to reduce the number of daily BMs for a period of three or four days on a short trip

 

Thats gross but made me laugh