oh man not the weather again...it was 47 degrees and raining today at Timberline
we'll probably remember this as the winter we complained about the weather and spent waaaaaaaay too much time on cc.com!
The water in Calif is just plain nasty and most of the people who live there don't even drink it. They're all drinking bottled water and spending lots of $$$ on it. But I believe the water in NorCal to be better than the water in SoCal...with the exception of Silicon Valley...
The board is like a great big party. Some people are off talking politics, some are discussing gear, some are talking wine, some are discussing routes etc. etc. etc....and some are off talking shit...just like any party.
I agree that the water tastes better from the filter and I've used others but so far I've been too cheap to actually go out and buy one. The iodine treated water does taste pretty foul but you get used to it after awhile...
that's a good way to look at it. But what about Mt. Hood? I don't want to get swallowed by a crevice like those climbers last year. Oh when, pray tell, shall I climb it?
Hiking around in the Sierras we never filtered the water, just drank out of the streams. It wasn't until the Cascades that I started using iodine and I assumed that only the water in the Cascades was tainted but I've since been told that I was just very lucky. I guess I have a strong constitution.