GEAR REVIEW - KATADYN BASE CAMP FILTER
| Overall Rating: ∑ ∑ ∑ ∑ (out of 5) | Price Paid: $55.96 |
| Positives: Good Filtration, little work | Purchased from: www.campsaver.com |
| Negatives: a tad bulky | |
| Weight: 13 oz | Bottom Line: Recommend |
Used this water filter for a 5 day / 4 night Rae Lakes Loop Backpacking trip in Kings Canyon National Park. It was very nice to let gravity do all the work. Its pretty easy to fill at least it was in a place with flowing streams. It has an opening like the old dry bags of old used for river rafting.
I agree it would be hard in spots with very low or mucky water. In that case you would want another container to first let sediment sink to the bottom.
The flow rate isn't as fast as say the katadyn hiker pro ™ but since you aren't doing any work for it its not that big a deal. My friend had a 96 ounce nalgene cantene that we would fill ( it would take about 20 minutes or so I would say). The filter is the same as used in the hiker pro which is a plus for those who already own the one. I don't see why if you used gloves that you couldn't use one filter for both ( although obviously one at a time).
I kind of wish that this filter had the bottle adapter that the hiker/ hiker pro™ comes with. Sometimes its hard to find flat ground under a tree.
I suppose quickconnect fittings would be nice but not really necessary as by definition almost any time you take this filter out you are stopped for a while and it shouldn't be that big a deal to get your reservoir out. But there is no real reason why one couldn't. I am going to look for a real cheap used hiker / hiker pro just to use the bottle adapter with this base camp filter.
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