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I usually bring a small cooler, especially on no-portage tidal trips. I need to pack in drinking water on those trips as well, and use a 10L dromedary bag, or two. But I also like to have my melted ice water available to extend the potable supply once it reaches Alan Gage tepidity.
Which raises the question, what water container to freeze at home? Which raises the question, which frozen water container packs in the cooler most cheaply and efficiently?
Clean half gallon milk jugs with a screw on lid are my go to in the big hard side Igloo Marine, which only comes on family trips. I reuse smaller plastic water bottles in the DIY daypack dry bag cooler. Both are freebies and can be flattened and trash bagged when empty.
The rectangular milk jug shape better fills the space amongst my provisions (read mostly beer) than yet another cylinder against cylinder shape like a plastic water bottle. Plus I have qualms about AquaFina or Desani BS marketing, and landfill (highway, river) trash.
Short rant. When I first heard about pay cable TV I laughed my arse off at the very concept. But paying a buck for a bottle of tap water from the freaking Pepsi bottling plant in El Paso or Jersey City? Yeah, I’ve regrettably done it when the tripping truck carboy and canteens were empty. Rant over
Friend Chip stopped by the shop yesterday and left me a few gifts, including a new/used coffee mug that needs only a bachelors’ degree in engineering to operate.
He also left me an empty gourmet water bottle. Icelandic Glacial water “8.4 ph, carbon neutral product, Source of an epic life”. Probably gluten free as well.
But a very nice container. Thick, sturdy plastic, 3 inch square by 11 inches tall. 1000 ml.
http://icelandicglacial.com/
Greenland should get in on this action as their pristine glaciers melt. Bottle it before it pours into the sea. “Paleo Water” or somesuch
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/27/world/greenland-is-melting-away.html?_r=0
(I fully expect to see a Canoe & Kayak adventure article about “Paddling Greenland’s Meltwater Rivers” any day now. That trip has probably already happened)
That Icelandic glacial water bottle container is nice though. It was probably designed to fit in the square cup holders of a Subaru, but it will make a dandy center ice core in my dry bag coolers. Thanks Chip, when I get down to my last 1000 ml of water I’ll think of you.
Which raises the question, what water container to freeze at home? Which raises the question, which frozen water container packs in the cooler most cheaply and efficiently?
Clean half gallon milk jugs with a screw on lid are my go to in the big hard side Igloo Marine, which only comes on family trips. I reuse smaller plastic water bottles in the DIY daypack dry bag cooler. Both are freebies and can be flattened and trash bagged when empty.
The rectangular milk jug shape better fills the space amongst my provisions (read mostly beer) than yet another cylinder against cylinder shape like a plastic water bottle. Plus I have qualms about AquaFina or Desani BS marketing, and landfill (highway, river) trash.
Short rant. When I first heard about pay cable TV I laughed my arse off at the very concept. But paying a buck for a bottle of tap water from the freaking Pepsi bottling plant in El Paso or Jersey City? Yeah, I’ve regrettably done it when the tripping truck carboy and canteens were empty. Rant over
Friend Chip stopped by the shop yesterday and left me a few gifts, including a new/used coffee mug that needs only a bachelors’ degree in engineering to operate.
He also left me an empty gourmet water bottle. Icelandic Glacial water “8.4 ph, carbon neutral product, Source of an epic life”. Probably gluten free as well.
But a very nice container. Thick, sturdy plastic, 3 inch square by 11 inches tall. 1000 ml.
http://icelandicglacial.com/
Greenland should get in on this action as their pristine glaciers melt. Bottle it before it pours into the sea. “Paleo Water” or somesuch
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/27/world/greenland-is-melting-away.html?_r=0
(I fully expect to see a Canoe & Kayak adventure article about “Paddling Greenland’s Meltwater Rivers” any day now. That trip has probably already happened)
That Icelandic glacial water bottle container is nice though. It was probably designed to fit in the square cup holders of a Subaru, but it will make a dandy center ice core in my dry bag coolers. Thanks Chip, when I get down to my last 1000 ml of water I’ll think of you.