}SkOrPn--7 wrote: ... but like all filters too ensure that you get longevity out of the canisters and not having to clean them so often place a couple of coffee filters over the end of the pickup line with a rubber band you dunk in the drink if you get these sort of things.
This is the best advice that I've seen on the web ... ever.
I've been along the Murrumbidgee River a fair bit during the last 14 months, and on the downhill side of Bolaro the visibility in the water isn't as good as it is around Yaouk and by the time the river is leaving Burrunjuck, you cant see your hand in it. Putting a coffee filter over the intake of my MSR filter has doubled the time between the need to clean the filter thoroughly to get it back to a litre per minute flow.
On a trip I did to Wee Jasper a few months ago I only took 20 filters and half a dozen rubber bands. The filter is only a once off use in the Mighty Murrumbidgee or a turbid farm dam. Then in two later trips from Jugiong/Gundagai heading further west, through Nangus, Wantabadgery and Oura, I kept adding another 20 filters for each town I passed. One of the additional pluses with the coffee filters is that they weigh nothing when transferred from the cardboard packet to a zip-lock bag.
Every item you take touring should have at least two uses. So keep a coffee filter in your top pocket, for when a 4x4 goes past. Not always can you cross to the upwind side of the road when on the dirt.
Warren.
PS, If anyone is thinking of travelling between Wagga and Gundagai in the near future, and you're not looking forward to taking the Hume and the Sturt Highways, do consider going on the Oura Road, then the Wantabadgery Road and Nangus Road into Gundagai or vis-a-vis. A most scenic route on tarmac all the way. Slightly hillier than the highways but 10k shorter. None of the climbs are long, you're close to the Murrumbidgee River in several sections and the views are truly amazing. Take the coffee filters.
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