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Pat B:
You can make your own filter. There might be a build along in the "How To" section. A guy posted it last year. He made them for he and a bunch of scouts.   I took a pump water filter to Colorado in 2006 on an elk hunt with Kenneth(little John). Each day I would pump enough water for the two of us for drinking and cooking in about 10 minutes.  If nothing else the purification tablets will get you by.  Contaminated water is everywhere these days and it ain't worth chancing it.

ps. the homemade filter was made with a Britta type water filter. 

DanaM:
Pat not sure about the filter but anything that can't filter viruses is unsafe, consider that E.Coli is about 2 micrometers and a rhinovirus is 20 nanometers

nanometer = 0.000000001 meters

The only sure way to purify your water is boiling it, and it only has to come to a boil for a matter of seconds to kill or inactivate any pathogens present.
I would let it come to a full rolling boil for 1 minute then let it cool. By all means bring a filter but only to remove suspended particles why drink crud eh :)

HT you ever see that show I think its called The Monster Within Us or something like that, anyway its all about people picking up paristites and such
there are lots of nasty little creatures out there that will make you wish that you had only contracted Giardia(beaver fever). Better do your research HT
don't romanticize a undertaking such as this, do your research and practice the necessary skills before heading out. Good luck and have fun eh :)

BTW I carry the highest certification in Water Treatment that Michigan has ;)

huntertrapper:
thaks fellas. yeah i believe ill keep it modern at this point for the water a small water purification will be good and hopefully keep me in the mountains for a longer time. and naw i never saw that show, only have 13 channels, but i know how bad those little 'sites are man. not fun at all. i plan to live off the land or with the land. not die from it.  ;D

Wolf Watcher:
Trapper:  Dana gave you some good advice.  BOIL THE WATER!!  I live in the mountains and I carry a canteen.  Drank out of the streams for many years at Cow camp and was lucky never to get sick.  Mike Hawk Huston got really ill on one of his trips.  We eat and boil the snow if its clean.  Lots of times you can find a spring in a bank and with some digging and allowing time for it to wash clean you can drink that!  Forget the rain---thats a desert trick for lost pilgrams!  We have so many grizzlies now that there can be a dead critter some where up stream and the water looks good.  Even the old mountain men trappers carried a pan to boil water in.  Good luck ijn the mountains!  Joe

huntertrapper:
thanks wolf. ive heard hawk say about getting beaver fever. i dont want that. im definitely gonna boil my water, mite take more time, but where do i gotta be when living off the land? nowhere  ;D thanks. ive always thought of that; water may look clean miles down from a beaver dam or a bear kill.

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