Filtering gets the swimming things that you can see with your naked eyebones out of the water.
Im not too worried about injesting swimming things as long as I dont get anything Nasty. I am going to be leaveing the MSR at homw next time and drinking straight from the source.
Having been In Olympic Im used to drinking odd water, a lot of it there is brown with tannins, makes great tea though
Im looking at reducing the base weight, its pretty low now, around 20Lbs. I did however just invest in a Marmot sawtooth at about 3lbs, I need to be warm, ive ditched my lightweight bag, tent is less than 2Lbs
