Hooray for the Vario

By Cody Coonradt November 7, 2008

We took a week at Red Castle lakes in the Uintah this summer. 12 miles in, these filters were life savers. We had 10 people on the trip and usually filled 20-30 32oz water bottles twice a day. (I'll let someone else do the math) With two filters we could knock out all the bottles in about 15 minutes. It gave us time to enjoy the trip. These are fairly large, but worth both the weight and size tradeoff. When compared with a sweetwater we had with us the Vario filled 2 nalgenes in the time it took the MSR to fill one. We ended up just putting the sweetwater away for most of the trip. Design is idiot proof, remember to occasionally release the air pressure after pumping, this will keep it from leaking like in the review below.

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