Roger, how does AuaPur handle chemical contaminants, like fertilizer runoff etc? Some of the areas I hike around in have been contaminated upstream. But, you are dead on with regard to water. I remember the fun I had trying to document a civilian impression water container for a longhunter. There wasn't one. They followed the streams, and drank from them. Why carry it when your paddling on it. :) Wish we could still say the same thing.
Todd
Missouri Territory
"the only substitute for good manners is fast reflexes"
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<DIV>Roger, how does AuaPur handle chemical contaminants, like fertilizer runoff etc? Some of the areas I hike around in have been contaminated upstream. But, you are dead on with regard to water. I remember the fun I had trying to document a civilian impression water container for a longhunter. There wasn't one. They followed the streams, and drank from them. Why carry it when your paddling on it. :) Wish we could still say the same thing. </DIV>
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<DIV>Todd</DIV>
<DIV>Missouri Territory</DIV>
<DIV>"the only substitute for good manners is fast reflexes"<BR></DIV>
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Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 16:21:24 -0800 (PST)
From: Todd Schrivener <farseer@swbell.net>
Subject: Re: MtMan-List: Backpacks (Again)
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Glenn, that sounds an awful lot like something called a market wallet in the 1700's. I must profess I tend to portray impressions from pre-1810, and that sounds exactly like one of the more easily documentable methods of lugging stuff around that civilians used. Military and ex-military had a few more options that are real popular with the trekking crowd, but if you weren't military, the odds of you having a military style knapsack were pretty slim. Market wallets and snapsacks were pretty common.
On July 3, 1834 Larpenter wrote: "My load to Fort Union was
not very encumbering; my old saddle bags, made of a yard of
brown muslin, sewed at both ends with a slit in the middle,
containing two red flannel shirts, pretty well worn, and one
check shirt, and one old white 3-point blanket, were about
all I had brought to Fort Union; my tin pan and cup I left
behind."
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<DIV>Glenn, that sounds an awful lot like something called a market wallet in the 1700's. I must profess I tend to portray impressions from pre-1810, and that sounds exactly like one of the more easily documentable methods of lugging stuff around that civilians used. Military and ex-military had a few more options that are real popular with the trekking crowd, but if you weren't military, the odds of you having a military style knapsack were pretty slim. Market wallets and snapsacks were pretty common.<BR><BR><B><I>Glenn Darilek <glenn@leaklocationservices.com></I></B> wrote:
<P><BR>On July 3, 1834 Larpenter wrote: "My load to Fort Union was<BR>not very encumbering; my old saddle bags, made of a yard of<BR>brown muslin, sewed at both ends with a slit in the middle,<BR>containing two red flannel shirts, pretty well worn, and one<BR>check shirt, and one old white 3-point blanket, were about<BR>all I had brought to Fort Union; my tin pan and cup I left<BR>behind."<BR><BR></snip></P></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV>
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