>>Still water and condoms are difficult to deal with in my experience. After unrolling, you can pull them through the water, holding the opening open, to fill; works moderately well.<<<br><br>Sounds like a larger pool than we typically have to deal with in this area. This is one technique that might work with the condom that wouldn’t work at all with a balloon.<br><br>>>Best solution I've found is to improvise some manner of container using the aluminum foil in your mini kit or leaves, bark, what have you, and then pour into the condom.<<<br><br>I wouldn’t have thought that this would work at all, beyond the unexpanded volume of the condom, without tap pressure or at least a fall of a few feet.<br><br>>>I once made a dam to create a small pool from a larger seep. Siphon didn't work great, but it did work. Biggest problem was the minimal quantities, a real PITA. I wouldn't try it for real unless there were no other viable options. Best bet is to just stick with the seep unless you have very good alternates and reason to move.<<<br><br>My experience using the tubing is mostly in MD, VA, PA and CT, where most streams nearly dry up in summer, and turn into little rivulets over rocks- if you’re lucky. I try to find or make a spot where it’s flowing quickly, with just enough depth/force to cover the end of the tubing, which I place a small rock on top of to anchor. In one spot I used to walk to often, we found that it took almost 20 minutes to get a quart of water (that was with a 6 foot tube on a shallow slope- would have been faster with longer tube or more slope)- but it took no attention, so you could let it flow while making camp, cooking, even overnight- just swap bottles every so often once it’s going. An hour and a half per gallon is not bad at all if you don’t have to work at it. Without the tubing, it would have taken forever- no way to submerge a container, even a shallow cup, without building a pretty good size dam. I’ve also used it to tap ground water seeping out of the walls of a quarry. I can’t see how you could use it to expand a condom at all, though.<br><br><br>