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Outside Online: This Hiker Hydration Hack Is Now a Product You Can Buy

Trail veterans often jerry-rig the popular Sawyer Squeeze water filter onto a bomb-proof Vecto bladder. Now, the two products come together as a unit.

Outside Online: This Hiker Hydration Hack Is Now a Product You Can Buy

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February 21, 2025
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Outside Online: This Hiker Hydration Hack Is Now a Product You Can Buy

Outside Online: This Hiker Hydration Hack Is Now a Product You Can Buy

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Trail veterans often jerry-rig the popular Sawyer Squeeze water filter onto a bomb-proof Vecto bladder. Now, the two products come together as a unit.

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Outside Online: This Hiker Hydration Hack Is Now a Product You Can Buy

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This Hiker Hydration Hack Is Now a Product You Can Buy

Almost every hiker box I have ever seen after 11,000 miles on American trails has the same litter problem: the thin plastic water bags that accompany the popular Sawyer Squeeze, the most efficient and reliable water filter I have ever used. In theory, these ubiquitous black-and-blue mylar bags are a hiker’s dream, able to hold nearly a liter of water in exchange for less than an ounce of weight.

But water filters get clogged, and gear gets dropped on jagged rocks, these thin bags rip in the middle during the second scenario and burst at the seams with the first. Weight savings and water filters are useless if you don’t actually have a way to hold your water.

Continue reading to learn more about the new Sawyer Products and Cnoc collaboration, written by Grayson Haver Currin.

Outside Online: This Hiker Hydration Hack Is Now a Product You Can Buy

This Hiker Hydration Hack Is Now a Product You Can Buy

Almost every hiker box I have ever seen after 11,000 miles on American trails has the same litter problem: the thin plastic water bags that accompany the popular Sawyer Squeeze, the most efficient and reliable water filter I have ever used. In theory, these ubiquitous black-and-blue mylar bags are a hiker’s dream, able to hold nearly a liter of water in exchange for less than an ounce of weight.

But water filters get clogged, and gear gets dropped on jagged rocks, these thin bags rip in the middle during the second scenario and burst at the seams with the first. Weight savings and water filters are useless if you don’t actually have a way to hold your water.

Continue reading to learn more about the new Sawyer Products and Cnoc collaboration, written by Grayson Haver Currin.

फोटो थंबनेल ब्लॉग लेखक
Hiker, Writer
Grayson Haver Currin
Grayson Haver Currin is Outside’s thru-hiking expert.
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Outside Online: This Hiker Hydration Hack Is Now a Product You Can Buy

This Hiker Hydration Hack Is Now a Product You Can Buy

Almost every hiker box I have ever seen after 11,000 miles on American trails has the same litter problem: the thin plastic water bags that accompany the popular Sawyer Squeeze, the most efficient and reliable water filter I have ever used. In theory, these ubiquitous black-and-blue mylar bags are a hiker’s dream, able to hold nearly a liter of water in exchange for less than an ounce of weight.

But water filters get clogged, and gear gets dropped on jagged rocks, these thin bags rip in the middle during the second scenario and burst at the seams with the first. Weight savings and water filters are useless if you don’t actually have a way to hold your water.

Continue reading to learn more about the new Sawyer Products and Cnoc collaboration, written by Grayson Haver Currin.

फोटो थंबनेल ब्लॉग लेखक
Hiker, Writer
Grayson Haver Currin
Grayson Haver Currin is Outside’s thru-hiking expert.
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43.2% of hikers used the Sawyer Squeeze, the most common hollow membrane squeeze filter (and the most common water treatment overall).

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Randy Patton’s late father, Biff Patton, launched the water filter program in 2010.

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The most significant being its positive impact on our health after using it, its capacity to reduce our expenses on water treatment and access to safe water, and the time it saves by eliminating the need for boiling or treating water.

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