I'v drank from streams high up ever since i was a nipper,it's never done me any harm.itl be alot cleaner than the stuff that comes outa yer tap full of chemicals:thumbup:
Does anyone sterilise water which they get from pools/ streams on the hill? When I was out on a long hot day (week last Thursday) I reluctantly filled up my bottle from a few still pools and later on in the day began retching violently... I guess it could have been the heat as it was a very sunny and quite hot day, or poor food management... would be interested in your thoughts. Cheers,
I don't sterilise what I drink on the fells, but make sure that I'm drinking from free flowing streams running over rocky beds, not still pools. I haven't come unstuck yet.
2 previous threads on this, all you need to know is on there I would imagine...
http://forum.fellrunner.org.uk/showt...ht=clean+water
May be a mod could bring them all together
http://forum.fellrunner.org.uk/showt...ams#post341699
They just make the water tastier. I've never met anyone who's got poisoned from drinking from the fells. My rule of thumb has always been it'll be OK as long as you're above human habitation/camps/treated fields/cattle. The odd sheep carcase is neither here nor there. It's people & chemicals that you've got to be wary of. (In the UK, Alps, Pyrenees etc - can't comment about further afield).
Andy Robinson
Runfurther committee member
Helsby Running Club
there was excellent places to take a skinny dip on saturday coming back up from seathwaite
I drink of the land but i know where to get it from
I had a situation saturday where i came past the tarn there had been 15 walkers walked over the ice to get to the piece of land in the middle of tarn i had my ice axe to hand so tempting