Nobody wants to be sick on vacation, but one look at thousands of single-use plastic bottles tossed into landfills or rivers may inspire you to bring your own refillable bottle - and a water ...

With so much effort and expense devoted to "light and fast," trail runners think twice about traipsing into the backcountry with almost a gallon of water on their waist or back. The SteriPEN handheld ...

A pair of international trips this year have netted me multiple bouts of stomach sickness, but I can't say I haven't tried to allude the little bugs that cause ill will to so many travelers. One ...

On a backpacking trip through the Four Pass Loop last month, my fiancée and I tried out a new approach to purifying water — the seemingly magical, easy-to-pack SteriPen Adventure Opti. It worked, but ...

Purifying water in the wild for me usually means finding a clean source – a stream, a spring, mountain meltwater if lucky – and dropping in an iodine pill or two if things seem suspicious. But that’s ...

Purifying water in the wild for me usually means finding a clean source - a stream, a spring, mountain meltwater if lucky - and dropping in an iodine pill or two if things seem suspicious. That's the ...

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Trust your gut: a water purifier could be the most important piece of gear you pack. FEW THINGS CAN ruin an adventure in the outdoors more effectively than drinking non-pure water then, a few hours ...