Grayl Geopress Water Filter Anyone?

[mwaalen]

Anyone familiar with these? My biggest concern is being able to press the thing while in the canoe. Maybe it would be the perfect mechanics hunched over with the thing between your feet?

https://grayl.com/collections/geopr...LYmydPewVucy79ZuGdbC3U98E-wR10JBoCQxgQAvD_BwE

 

[Alan Gage]

No experience with that sort of filter. I've always just used a Sawyer filter bottle with a straw. Fill and suck. Simple and easy. Takes a couple weeks for it to restrict to the point it needs to be backflushed, which is easy enough to do in the field.

Alan

 

[BWCA66]

A thread from a couple of years ago wasn't too favorable.

 

[mwaalen]

Thanks Alan. The three last "fill & suck" types I've used gave us troubles on a (2-week max) trip. The last 2 were suck-or-squeeze bags and both were hard on the cheeks and/or hands & awfully slow. Never had a Sawyer so will look into those. I'll take a look at that old thread just mentioned. I did do a search prior to posting this with no hits for whatever reason so if you can share that old post I'll take a look.

Thank You

 

[Boatman53]

I had one and tossed it. I used it in the BWCA and two presses and the filter was clogged. My son, not to be deterred, sat on it and got nothing. When we got home I tried to call them through the 800 number on the packaging and could never get through, I think I might have left a message but I’m not sure, if I did I never got a call back. The store I bought it from no longer carries them.
Jim