Much easier to stop and down a few bottles of filtered municipal bottled water when fuel is needed than go through all that trouble inmho.
That all depends on how off the beaten track your adventure takes you.
Much easier to stop and down a few bottles of filtered municipal bottled water when fuel is needed than go through all that trouble inmho.
Actually, they did, Hydrapak makes the bladder for the Geigerrig.
I use separate vessels stowed here and there on my rig.....I like to stop and stretch take in the scenery, etc. The camel backs are a **** to clean out, etc. I can more easily vary what I want to carry, say two liters of ice tea, two of water and one of homemade soup, and a liter of moonshine. Can't do that with a bladder......
Much easier to stop and down a few bottles of filtered municipal bottled water when fuel is needed than go through all that trouble inmho.
That all depends on how off the beaten track your adventure takes you.
I carry bottles of water in a cooler in those situations.
They get mold etc after a while...I use full strength bleach overnight, and the result is a clear tube and bladder. When I finish mine for the day, I remove the bite piece and swing the hose around to force all the water out. It helps prevent the tube and bladder from forming mold at least for a while.
RB