Originally Posted by Brad
Originally Posted by Rock Chuck
MT has it, too, lots of it. You just haven't drank from the right creek yet. Getting it when you're 5 miles back in the mountains is something you really won't want to do twice. It's not in every creek or spring but how do you tell whether its in THIS creek? You're playing intestinal roulette.


BS. You just have to be smart where you drink. Giardia is one of the most overblown fears out there. We're not drinking from low lying ag streams, we're drinking the finest water on the planet from mountain streams.
The risk of drinking unfiltered water from mountain streams is quite low but if you lose the roulette game, the penalty is a bitch. There's more than just giardia out there. There are quite a few bacteria gut bugs besides parasites.


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