Ponzini Posted October 23, 2006 Posted October 23, 2006 This summer we camped for a week beside a turquiose, glacier fed lake in the Adamants, and as the week went on, two of the three of us started feeling poorly (little appitite, sometimes upset stomach, etc). Anyone else experience this? The water was somewhat silty, but nowhere near the dirty color of large glacier outwash creeks. Derrick was affected worst, Ramsay only somewhat and I felt perfectly normal so I don't think it was a case of giardia. Any thoughts? Quote
G-spotter Posted October 23, 2006 Posted October 23, 2006 Glacial silt has sharp edges and can irritate the lining of the stomach and intestines. Quote
Ponzini Posted October 23, 2006 Author Posted October 23, 2006 were you boiling, filtering, iodine? No, I've never done any of those in BC (yet).... Quote
David Trippett Posted October 24, 2006 Posted October 24, 2006 We got what sounds like the same thing in the Adamants from the stream fed from Austerity Galcier....we switched to a smaller, less silty stream and got better pretty quick...Eric at the CMH lodge said it was from the "rock flour". I think it was Matt's cooking Quote
Ponzini Posted October 24, 2006 Author Posted October 24, 2006 Sounds like rock flour with sharp edges is the culprit. A good lesson. Quote
Bug Posted October 25, 2006 Posted October 25, 2006 Don't drink it if you can't see if there's floaters or not. Quote
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