Ponzini Posted October 23, 2006 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
G-spotter Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 Glacial silt has sharp edges and can irritate the lining of the stomach and intestines. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ericb Posted October 23, 2006 Share Posted October 23, 2006 were you boiling, filtering, iodine? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponzini Posted October 23, 2006 Author Share Posted October 23, 2006 were you boiling, filtering, iodine? No, I've never done any of those in BC (yet).... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Trippett Posted October 24, 2006 Share 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ponzini Posted October 24, 2006 Author Share Posted October 24, 2006 Sounds like rock flour with sharp edges is the culprit. A good lesson. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bug Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 Don't drink it if you can't see if there's floaters or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dechristo Posted October 25, 2006 Share Posted October 25, 2006 brown trout rolled in rock flour? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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