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Sawyer 3-Way Inline Water Filter
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Use the lightweight Sawyer 3-Way Inline water filter to effectively treat water straight from a lake, hydration reservoir or household faucet.
- Insert the filter inline into your hydration pack drink tube (sold separately) and you can simply fill your reservoir with dirty water and drink away
- Or, create one of the lightest filter systems available by attaching a drink tube (sold separately) to the filter then submerge the filter into dirty water and start sipping
- When traveling overseas, use the included faucet adapter to filter water as it comes out of the tap
- Hollow fiber membrane filter physically removes particles, protozoa, and bacteria down to 0.1 micron in size, including giardia, salmonella and cryptosporidium
- All Sawyer water filters exceed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recommendations for removal rates
- Filter is fully field maintainable to ensure a fast flow of water; use the faucet adapter for thorough back washing from a household faucet
- Includes hollow fiber filter, faucet adapter, hydration pack assembly kit, and cleaning and maintenance instructions
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Sawyer 3-Way Inline Water Filter Customer Reviews
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by PowerReviewsPros
- Easy to use (16)
- Compact (13)
- Lightweight (13)
- Good quality (11)
- Improves function (5)
Cons
Best Uses
- Hiking (16)
- Hydration packs (14)
- Travel (6)
- Water bottles (3)
- Reviewer Profile:
- Avid adventurer (11), Casual/ recreational (5)
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Pros
- Compact
- Easy to Use
- Improves Function
- Lightweight
Cons
Best Uses
- Hiking/Camping
- Hydration Packs
- Running
Comments about Sawyer 3-Way Inline Water Filter:
I was preparing for a long un-supported 47 mile run through back-country. Anything needed for the run needed to be in my pack. While training, I quickly learned that my 100 ounce hydration pack was really heavy (water is about 2 pounds per liter). So, I took my smallest bladder, marked it at the one liter level and attached the Sawyer filter.
With the Sawyer inline filter, I never carried more than 1 liter of water and that was a great way to save weight. I always had fresh, cold, delicious water from mountain steams and the Sawyer filter kept me from getting sick in an area known for serving up Ghiardia.
My only con is that it does not fit my Osprey tube. It seems to only fit CamelBack.
Don't let it freeze, clean it after each use and it will serve you well. It may be less effective in areas with muddy, silty and dirty water, but in the mountains it is great.
I always carry iodine tablets for emergency situation (ie. filter failure).
- Was this a gift?:
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Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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CamelBack bladder w/ Sawyer filter in Osprey Pack
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Pros
- Easy to Use
- Good Quality
- Lightweight
Cons
Best Uses
- Hiking/Camping
- Hydration Packs
Comments about Sawyer 3-Way Inline Water Filter:
I hooked this inline with my platypus bladder and love it for backpacking! It's very lightweight and you can start drinking immediately. The only things you have to think about are: not letting it freeze (I slept with mine in my bivy) and that once you have the connectors in a drinking tube, they won't come out. So that better be the setup you really want. Other than that, I love it!
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- No
Pros
- Saves Time Pumping
Cons
Best Uses
- Canteens & Coolers
- Hiking/Camping
- Hydration Packs
Comments about Sawyer 3-Way Inline Water Filter:
This is such a great little devise! Who would every want to pump again. I have been using my filter for 4 summers and it is still working well. I mostly use it as a gravity filter. I go to a little stream on a backpacking trip and fill my 100 ounce Platypus, which has the filter inline, full of water then go back to camp and let it trickle into a pot or water jug and in a short time I have fresh wonderful tasting mountain water. It trickles a little slow, not like a stream from a faucet, but just let it trickle go do something and fresh water without pumping. I backwash it once a season and it just keeps on working. It is very light weight for my ultralight luxury backpacking only weighing a couple of ounces. I have one of the older models. I believe they have improved it, but mine is still a great product!
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Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
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Filter by left shoulder (black) - Pecos Wildernes
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Pros
- Compact
- Easy to Use
- Lightweight
- Simple
Cons
- Needs some upkeep
Best Uses
- Hiking/Camping
- River research
- Travel
Comments about Sawyer 3-Way Inline Water Filter:
Love this product. I've used it extensively for nearly 2 years without any problems. The more you use it, the more you will need to flush it, and the flow will slow down a bit, but it is still a solid piece of equipment I never leave at home. I work as a biologist in rivers all over California, and I've used this nearly every day I've been in the field, as well as on long backpacking trips, travel abroad, etc. It has beaten out every other filter I've used (sweetwater, UV light, tablets, etc.), and many times other folks have ended up using my filter instead of their own because it's much simpler and faster to use.
I do think it is important to rinse, flush, and drain the filter after every trip, and sometimes you do need to pre-filter really mucky water (high sediment, algae, etc.) before you fill your bladder. I use an MSR 2 L bag (more of the fabric type) so I can easily squeeze the bag to help force the last bit of water through if necessary.
Really impressed with this product, and I'm really hard on gear, I spend half the year outside for work, so if it's going to last, I usually find out pretty quickly.
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Pros
- Compact
- Easy to Use
- Good Quality
- Improves Function
- Lightweight
Cons
Best Uses
- Backpacking
- Hiking/Camping
- Hydration Packs
- Travel
- Water Bottles
Comments about Sawyer 3-Way Inline Water Filter:
This is the be-all and end-all of water filters.
GET THIS and a few accessories and make your life easier and lighter in the wilderness.
I can now filter water while I'm taking in the surroundings (isn't that why we're out there in the first place?).
This unit in combination with a platypus 2 or 3 liter hydration system, a 1 liter platypus water bottle, and a "scoop" made from a small drink bottle cut off will solve all your filtering and camp drink needs.
I have shaved so much weight off my water filtering system in addition to making things so much easier.
Here's what I do: Scoop water out of your water source with a cut off drink container and pour it into a platypus 2 or 3 liter hydration system fitted with this filter on the output side and gravity feed out of that into your water bottles, cook put, or platypus drink bottle. You can do most of this while taking in the view around you instead of focusing on the intake and pumping of conventional filtering systems :).
Do it, you won't regret it!
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Pros
- Compact
- Easy to Use
- Lightweight
Cons
- Won't fit my system
Best Uses
- Hiking/Camping
- Hydration Packs
Comments about Sawyer 3-Way Inline Water Filter:
Just received this filter today with the hopes it would fit on my CAMELBAK M.U.L.E (TM) without a lot of modification, but it will not. My pack has the "HYDORLINK" quick disconnect system and the supplied fittings will not work, so in order to adapt and overcome, I am using a straight CAMELBAK bladder and using the fittings, which seem to work just fine.
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Pros
- Compact
- Easy to Use
- Good Quality
- Lightweight
- Multi-use
Cons
Best Uses
- Backpacking
- Hiking/Camping
- Hydration Packs
Comments about Sawyer 3-Way Inline Water Filter:
This is possibly THE best investment I've ever made for backpacking. Just got back from a 4 day backpacking trip and just LOVED the utility of this product.
It's super light and multi-use which always saves time and effort. I set this up in line with my Platypus 3 liter hydration system for easy filtering. My hydration bag is the "dirty water" reservoir and the water is filtered as I drink.
I also used my hydration reservoir in combination with this filter as a gravity feed filtration system for other containers in camp or other people's water containers on the trail. It is SO nice to be able to stand there and filter water while looking around and experiencing the surroundings (isn't that why we're out there to begin with?) NO PUMPING REQUIRED
TIP: I cut the top off a clear plastic soda bottle to use as a water "scoop" to gather water and fill the bladder. With this bottle I could view the clarity of the water to ensure there were no particles in the water to plug the filter before pouring into the bladder.
Make sure to not let this filter freeze as it'll ruin it ;)
- Was this a gift?:
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Pros
- Compact
- Easy to Use
- Good Quality
- Lightweight
Cons
Best Uses
- Hiking/Camping
Comments about Sawyer 3-Way Inline Water Filter:
Simple to use, just attached inline to my hydration bag and did not have to worry about the quality of water I put into the bag. No time wasted filtering water before drinking. Sometimes I would hang my filtration bag up to drain water into a pot for cooking this also worked well.
- Was this a gift?:
- No
Pros
- Compact
- Easy to Use
- Good Quality
Cons
Best Uses
- Hiking/Camping
Comments about Sawyer 3-Way Inline Water Filter:
I tied this into a 4L Dromadary to create my own gravity filter.
Don't let it's fine micron filtering capability scare you. There's no perceivable differance in my flow both with and without the filter.
I can refill my hydration bladder in minutes.
Fantastic product.
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Pros
- Compact
- Easy to Use
- Good Quality
- Lightweight
Cons
Best Uses
- Hiking/Camping
- Hydration Packs
- Travel
Comments about Sawyer 3-Way Inline Water Filter:
I'll echo the other reviews of this filter, its pretty much perfect. Every one of my camping and packing buddies is envious of this thing and as such am usually the de facto water guy anytime I'm in a group setting. The most arduous part of getting water is the walk to the stream. Gravity does the rest, and it fills a container just about as fast as a plain hydration bladder drain could.
I do have ONE gripe about it though.
According to the literature and after verifying with product reps via email; it is recommended for replacement if the unit ever freezes. Even if it's been disconnected and the water drained/shaken out. This can be rather inconvenient if you're still on the trail. Having a filter of unknown performance is really bad news when making camp near the beaver ponds in CO's Buffalo Peaks Wilderness. So, the take home lesson here is to bring a sandwich bag, disconnect it from the bladder and keep it in your sleeping bag with you if you think it *might* get to sub-freezing.
It should go without saying that storing the filter with your stove and other hard parts in your pack hanging in the garage is also ill-advised.
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