Douglas said:The stream I was thinking of only potentially had "bouquetins" higher up, actually 400m higher (atlitude, not distance) and were on the other side of the mountain. Plus the contamination wouldn't go directly in the water, because it had it's source much lower down than they were. But I didn't drink it because I still had some left.
Would that have been safe?
P.S: For filling up it had lots of mini waterfalls so that wouldn't have been a problem.
Doug, do you live somewhere in Savoie?
In England, our scout leaer always warned about taking water from moorland streams, because of the danger that sheep carcases were layng in them? And having seen them in the moors around North Derbyshire and South Yorkshire, I'm a believer. Not a trace. Of doubt in my mind. Ooh!
As for animals mouths being dirty, I believe that primates have dirtier mouths than dogs and cats....
But then, just being dirty doesn't stop something ele from dirtying you.
Keith.