Katadyn Base Camp Water Filter

was not hard to find parts unlike one I have from another major manufacturer. Good for refilling water jugs in camp if you have the time. Does not take much effort or the time of pumping water and price is reasonable.

I used this filter on a Cataract trip recently. The water in the Colorado is obviously full of sediment, so I tried filling a bucket and letting the sediment settle out for an hour before pouring it into the filter. This didn't work as well as I'd hoped, because after the first bucketful of water I put through the filter, subsequent refills filtered exceptionally slowly and necessitated manually cleaning the sediment off the filter before refilling it each time. I tested the flow rate when I got home by cleaning the sediment off the filter and using clearer water and it went way faster (like 20 minutes instead of 3 hours). I think if you were using this filter on a less muddy river it would probably work just fine, but if you use it on the Colorado or Green, figure out a way to get as much of the sediment out of the water as you can before running it through the filter, or try to use water out of a side stream. Other than the slow filtering time, the water that came out the other end was crystal clear and tasted fine. It just took a long time to produce.

This filter is easy to use and mantain. Water flows through filter fairly quickly. Bag holds about 2 gallons and filter is easy to change.

This is a great product very well priced

No more pumping! Relatively cheap and simple to use. It filters the water while I rest in a camp chair...

Packs easily for kayak river camping and its rapid filteration serves two people well. When combined with a collapsible water container a lot of effort is eliminated.

I first used this product this summer on a 3-day trip in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area and it worked very well. It was nice to have clean water in camp at a moments notice. The flow is slow but that can be expected when gravity is doing the work.

Used this on a Middle Fork of the Salmon river trip. The water was pretty clear and it worked great. Can't say how it would work for a muddy river but everyone really liked not having to pump the filter for hours everyday.

To filter while on rafting trip. It filters kind of slow, but worked very well over time. Never had a shortage of good, clean water. We did pre-filter with a 5 micron, because the river was very high and full of silt.

This filter drove everyone in our week-long canoe expedition crazy. Everyone preferred the much faster filter pumps we took for a back-up or even boiled water. Also, as the containers to be filled neared their limit, the hose from the filter would float out and spill what little water was flowing all over the ground until someone noticed it. The paper filter element is simply surrounded by cloth and has no protection from crushing or similar damage when packed away. When carrying a freshly filled filter bag back to wherever it will be hung, you are sure to get wet. Be sure you have a place from which to hang the bag as it does rely on grevity to work at all. Save yourself the trouble and save your money for a decent filter pump.