Hydration packs

[jadine]

Anyone have experience with hydration packs that you'd like to share? I'm looking at buying one in the next week or so.

Comments

[tylik]

What are you wanting? What are you wanting to use it for?

[jadine]

I'm looking at a daypack with hydration, so I can carry stuff in it too. Minimum capacity of 2 liters.

I want to use it for day hikes, festivals, maybe even Gaia Consort shows... Basically, all the places where my 1L Nalgene bottles are inadequate. No serious backpacking or cycling or anything; if I get to that point, I can buy something more specialized.

[tylik]

Looking for the kind of thing with a sip tube?

[jadine]

Er, are there other kinds? Which I guess is a yes.

[tylik]

Get thee to REI.

Most of the people I know prefer platypus bladders to camelbacks -- better heads on the tubes (more flow through, less dripping) and I haven't noticed taste issues, though I just have a bladder, no tube.

Most serious daypacks have hydration compartments so as to hold a bladder of your choice.

[jadine]

Yeah, I'm thinking I'll hit the Redmond store on Saturday.

The thing is, it's a lot cheaper to buy a complete hydration pack than to buy a daypack plus a bladder.

[tylik]

I think some of the daypacks even come with platypi.