The Sawyer Mini filter has to be one of my favourite pieces of kit I've used recently. Looks like I'm not the only one judging by the amount popping up in peoples kit lists and the success of the group buy.
Anyway thought it would be interesting to see how everyone uses theirs and get it all in one thread for people new to the system.
My current water kit:
The rationale is I use my 2x Nalgenes for carried water which are refilled using the 2l Platypus. The Platypus is used as my dirty water bag but also allows me to collect a total of 4l (2l filtered, 2l dirty) for camp use and to cook breakfast. It's a struggle to fill the bladder from slow moving water as the water pressure presses the bladder shut, so a cut down water bottle is used as a scoop in these situations.
Yet to field test this but came up with a simple gravity filter mod from a 2l bottle. Just scoop up the water with the mini attached, hang from a branch or hiking pole and let gravity do the hard work. Certainly it's not as quick as squeezing it through but ideal for in camp, just like a Millbank I suppose.
Total weight including the gravity filter 178g.
So how do you use yours?
Anyway thought it would be interesting to see how everyone uses theirs and get it all in one thread for people new to the system.
My current water kit:
- Sawer Mini
- Cleaning syringe
- 2l Platypus bladder - Dirty water bag
- Cut down 500ml bottle - Used as a scoop
- Straw thingy for emergencies (Could probably do without it, but might be used to get water from a hard to reach place if I happened to be really desperate)
- Nylon stuff sack to keep it all in.
- Two 1l Nalgenes.
The rationale is I use my 2x Nalgenes for carried water which are refilled using the 2l Platypus. The Platypus is used as my dirty water bag but also allows me to collect a total of 4l (2l filtered, 2l dirty) for camp use and to cook breakfast. It's a struggle to fill the bladder from slow moving water as the water pressure presses the bladder shut, so a cut down water bottle is used as a scoop in these situations.
Yet to field test this but came up with a simple gravity filter mod from a 2l bottle. Just scoop up the water with the mini attached, hang from a branch or hiking pole and let gravity do the hard work. Certainly it's not as quick as squeezing it through but ideal for in camp, just like a Millbank I suppose.
Total weight including the gravity filter 178g.
So how do you use yours?