Sawyer Mini Water Filter

Okay, so now that we've tried it out, it seemed to work great. The water tasted good and I'm happy with it.

Here's why the Sawyer Mini is better:. 1. Filter life.

*Sawyer Filter* \- sorry to everyone in the sawyer camp, but this thing is a PITA for me. On the hike out we relied on it b/c the friend that hiked out early took the platy gravity filter. The o-ring kept falling out, flow was abysmal, etc. Glad it works for a lot of you but I’m going to try the Platypus Quickdraw on my next trip, specifically re flowrate/o ring issues.

I had a new Sawyer mini laying around (I know the worst one) and decided I'd try a gravity setup this time around. Seemed like everyone on the internet has had luck with their conversions. So I bought all the necessary tubing, adapters and dirty bag- and the best I can do is about 1 liter per hour with clean tap water. This is not gonna cut it in the UT desert, with silty water, for my GF and I. I could buy another squeeze or something else but honestly I see the same complaints with every other similar filter.

5. Replace the Sawyer Mini with a regular Sawyer - the flow rate on those is weak.