Bike Tours: Packing a Water Filter

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"Sending stuff back home is also an option. On some of my tours you go from places where it is cold to places where it is hot. And so you start going to the post offices in town and sending home the cold weather gear you don't need and I have actually sent home some other stuff. One of the things I've sent home is once I got through the rocky mountains where there is a lot less civilization I sent home my water filter. But while I was in the rocky mountains, when you are in Utah and in the desert and there is very little civilization around a water filter is a really nice thing to have. I have filtered water from under railroad trestles, under freeways, you can't believe where I have gotten water and you know if you have got a good water filter like this one is you tend to be pretty much o'kay if the filter technology is pretty good on these filters now. One thing to bring along now maybe if you don't want to bring the whole filter is just iodine tablets. In a pinch it is a lot less weight and bulk in a filter and in a pinch you can just choose iodine tablets to make sure your water is reasonably potable. But so this is something that goes along with the kitchen kit and you just want to make sure you have that water filter if you think you need it. Again most areas are inhabited enough. You know I certainly have a water filter in Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri or Kansas but places like Utah, Nevada, Wyoming, Montana, out here in the west a water filter can prove to be something that gets you that sweet nectar of life when you really really need it."