Originally Posted By: bacpacjac
Originally Posted By: Snake_Doctor
Also I'd change out the chlorine dioxide tabs for a tiny filter like the Frontier model od iodine tabs. The four hour cure time is absurd and hard for many adults to endure, let alone an 8 year old who's learning the ropes.

I think you're right about the water tabs. He'd likely want to pre-filter and boil his water so I think we'll add an esbit or sterno stove.


As I recall, the 4 hour cure time for the chlorine dioxide tabs was only for the very worst case- cold murky water, with cryptosporidium cysts. Every other situation it takes less than 30 minutes:

http://image.magellans.com/mitcus/Images/pdf/fh323_manual.pdf
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