How to Select Water Containers for Camping

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is John Stewart and this is how to select your water containers for a weekend camping trip. Water is going to be the most important thing to plan for when making a camping trip. Your body needs it all the time, especially when you're exerting yourself like you will be hiking and camping. So you want to plan accordingly to how much water you're taking and how you store it. Easiest way to store water is in a bottle. You can use regular 20 ounce bottles if you have room for them and you can get some harder plastic bottles that aren't going to crack or break if you drop them out on the trail. They come in many different sizes, half liters, three-quarter liter, one liter bottles are the most common in the outdoor world, just cause it's the exact amount of water for treating water. OK? When you go camping you want to plan on taking at least one a half liters of water per day per person. OK? So you need to have at least that much, or at least have the ways of treating that much water. OK? But you always want to have one and a half liters of storage. When you store your water, most of the time you want to have it in arm's reach of you. Most packs have the water bottle holder right on each side of the pack where you can reach right behind you, grab that water bottle, pull it around, get you a swig of it, put it right back very easily without having to dig into the pack. Other ways of storing your water is you can get a water bladder. Most packs nowadays have a sleeve right up against your back to where you can pour your water in that, slide the bladder into the pack and straw comes out and comes around the front of you and you can suck on that straw and get your water. They come in many different sizes also. This is how you select and pack your water storage for a weekend camping trip."