Stashing Water

[wyomagic]

So if you were to go stash water near where you are going to set up camp in the back country would you take large jugs or smaller bottles of water?

 

[DTP]

Personally I'd take larger verse small.


A few reason why for me:
- Less trash to bring back down
- The larger the bottle the longer it takes to freeze (if you are in those conditions)
- Less of a gaggle in your pack (I.E 3 liter bottles verse 12 20 oz bottles)




I think my go to sizes would be liter and gallon bottles.
If you have something like a fiftyfifty container or nalgene, then I'd be bringing up gallons or 2.5 gallon jugs and just filling up my containers.

 

[SilverDollars]

Howdy.  I'm with DTP on the larger size takes longer to freeze.  For me, I take a collapsible 4 liter jug to keep in camp (or nearby in your case). To fill it, I hike to the nearest stream, fill it up, and hike it back to camp. This is usually a short distance because I am not usually going to be too far from a water source. Then I can purify it usually a liter (or so) at a time. I built a purifying system that works well. I have 2 Platypus type bags with their tubes and a flow filter between them. I put water in the top bag, hang it to a tree or similar to let the water run down through the filter and into the bottom bag. Purified water! I attached a picture of it and the case I put it in to pack in.

 

[Boom]

We stash jugs of store bought water. Wrap them up in a cheap came tarp.


My friends have a large cache up in the mountains above LA for our opener next week. 20 gallons they say. Coming out, we string them up on a line and bring them back out crushed down.

 

[Kdkehoe]

I have had to pack in a few gallons at times. Easier to pack in and less trash.  DTP hit it on the head.

 

[Bowhunter1]

I have never hunted that far from water. I would use gallon jugs if I had to stash water.

 

[Ivar88]

Last year I purchased some of the kitchen grade 6 gallon jugs and filled them with water. I think they were about $8-$10 each. We packed in 8 of them about four miles from the truck and stashed them. We did this over the course of 2 scouting trips (myself and three others). Sucked at the time, but it made the hunt much more enjoyable. It was more water than we knew what to do with. I highly suggest larger storage capacity and kitchen grade containers. Oh yeah, we buried them up to the caps too... ;D

 

[wyomagic]

Thanks for the tips!  Going to be headed out this weekend to get everything set up for the big trip next month.