Does your hydration reservoir leak in your backpack and make your gear wet? When I started using a hydration system, I periodically had leaks where water would seep out of the system and get the contents of my pack wet. The source …
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Sterilizing Hydration Reservoirs with Efferdent
This year, I’ve had a hard time preventing red mold from growing in my Platypus hydration reservoirs. I don’t know why mold started to be a problem this year, but I think I’ve finally found a way to clean it out of …
Read More »Preventing Mold in Hydration Systems
Do you see that red stain on the inside of my platypus hydration bladder in the picture below? That’s mold, like the stuff that grows on our bathroom shower curtain. I only noticed it on my last backpacking trip, and since getting …
Read More »Hydration Bladder Pockets in Backpacks
Hydration pockets are good for day hikers because they hold your Camelback or platypus hydration bladder in place. If you’re a day hiker, you don’t have a lot of gear in the pack to keep your bladder from shifting around. However …
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I am a big fan of Platypus hydration bladders and I normally carry a 3L reservoir with me when I’m backpacking. Platypus bladders are different from Camelback reservoir, which I have used in the past, because they have a much smaller opening screw …
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