Re: camping post-tx

[Guest guest]

Martha wrote:

<> <> > I'd probably want to boil

>or filter purify everything just in case, so I was curious about what

>Jim and any other post tx hikers do?

When I'm camping or hiking I always purify my water even though I'm not

post transplant, and I always have... bad water can make the healthiest

of us pretty sick!

athan

[Guest guest]

Nice! Glad you got outside Martha!

I don't know as much as I should about water supplies. I'm actually

going camping this week in Acadia National Park in Maine, but we're

going to buy our water. I'm mostly a day hiker and I have a 3 liter

camel pack that I fill with filtered water. My personal feeling is

its better to filter or boil to be on the safe side, but as long as

you're doing good that's what counts. Thanks and glad you had a good

trip!

Jarad

>

> This question is inspired by Maureen's Jim, but given how much

she's

> got going now, anyone is welcome to answer.

>

> How do you handle water purity? We were just car camping but the

site

> had no tap- we got water from either the creek, or a tap in

Tuolomne

> Meadows. Tuolomne's water just failed a test for turbidity, but

isn't

> known to be contaminated with Giardia or Criptosporidium. I was

> thinking though, if I were post-transplant, I'd probably want to

boil

> or filter purify everything just in case, so I was curious about

what

> Jim and any other post tx hikers do?

>

> I just got back from my trip to San Francisco and Yosemite. We

spent 4

> idyllic days camping above Tioga Pass at 10,000 ft, with my family

and

> some old friends. The odds were against us getting up there because

> the trip started with my mom going back into the hospital for a

week,

> the day after we arrived, and ended, after midnight, after a day of

> flying on Southwest, the airline with family-unfriendly seating,

with

> our 6 year old child, under the new dehydration regulations, with

> being greeted by melted moldy ice cream running out of our brand

new

> fridge, which had blown its breaker while we were gone. (Now, THAT

was

> a run-on sentence!) In between were some great parts, like

swimming in

> mountain streams, sledding on our butts in shorts and overcoming my

> fear of heights to get up to the top of a granite dome (it was

called

> Puppy dome, to give you an idea of the magnitude, or minitude, of

this

> achievement). In short, I loved it and want to go back as often as

we can!

>

>

> Martha (MA)

> UC, 1979, PSC 1992, asymptomatic, STILL!

>