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Wow, I already have kind of a habit of bringing some of my water in a hard-sided bottle, but I think it'll be a policy now.
by andrewflnr 4y ago
Wow, I already have kind of a habit of bringing some of my water in a hard-sided bottle, but I think it'll be a policy now.
- wildhereplzhold 4y agoMultiple containers in different locations is a good idea, soft pouches can be more durable in some situations. I once went bikepacking, and took a fall on a patch of soft sand partway to the campsite. When I got there, as the sun was setting off a dirt track in the desert, I opened my bag to find that my hard water bottle had ruptured and soaked the bag's contents. Without a camelback and silicone canteen which survived the fall, I might have had to use the SOS button. Even more fortunately, I had organized most of my food/laundry/etc in large ziplock bags, which kept them dry. That was another useful lesson.
- kerkeslager 4y agoRedundancy, i.e. multiple containers, is probably more important. While at Red Rock I dropped a Smart Water bottle between some boulders and was unable to retrieve it. The fact that I had a second one might have saved my life that day. The scary thing is that when I packed the water that way, I totally wasn't trying to create redundancy, I was trying to balance my pack by splitting the water weight between the two bottle containers on the two sides.