Any further thoughts on drinking water on Dartmoor?
I have always just assumed the water is probably bad and always carried a camelbak or similar with me. However, since I have started taking longer runs and carrying more kit I have struggled to justify the extra 3kg of weight that 3L of water represents!
Last Sunday for the first time I started my run carrying nothing but two empty drinking bottles, I then filled these from the streams, and added a few drops of Iodine Tincture to kill any nastys that may have been lurking in the water. This method seems to have worked well, and I had no adverse effects from drinking the water, it didnt even taste too bad! The only negative thing I did notice was the fact that I drank less than half as much as I would have done if I had my Camelbak.
Ive got a 1.5l bladder in my Classic which does for about a couple of hours. On a re-fill I do the usual check upstream for dead stuff and chuck a purtitab in. I have tried it neat on a few occasions rather than drink swinmming pool water, but it's a lottery tbh.
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Paul
A Camelbak Classic with a 1.5l bladder does me for a couple of hours and I chuck a puritab in on re-fills. I have tried it neat after the usual checks for dead stuff with no probs, but not often.
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Yeah its from top of Bellever, good skills! Yeah I think 1.5L camelbak is a good bet to start with. At least that makes you drink a little more as its easy to get at whilst on the move.
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