Sawyer Water Filter

[610Alpha]

Anyone ever hear of or try this brand?

http://www.sawyer.com/tech-water.html

I saw a review from Engineer775 on them.

[protus]

lotta folks swear by them...but then again im a katadyn fan boy.
im kinda of leary of the claims/filtration rates. etc.

[creman]

I have it and love mine. I actually have mine inline in my hydration bladder and have used it as my only filtration a few times. It filters really well (no viruses but not a problem in my part of GA). You can set it to drip filter and leave it, then a quick boil and you know your water is good. Like I said, in extreme situations it's better than nothing.

Even more so, I throw a few chlorine tabs in my bladder and it helps some with the taste and the junk in it. My bladder remained nasty for a while and took tons of cleaning, but the filter did it's job amazingly.

Edit:
Just realized they have developed one that does take out the viruses...I may be making an investment soon.

[DIM TIM]

Been looking at their filters for a little while. There was a local Wally World that carried them in their sporting goods department for a bit, but they sold out and have not had them for a while. I can still find them though and will probably get enough for the family for our BOB's.