Hello, welcome to my channel. I hope you're all feeling strong and well you joined me Well, you joined we here because got the gorgeous Sheila over there We're doing a bit of training for the West talent way and we are at buttele spillway plenty of water here The reservoir what a brilliant view excellent view now some say that water is the most essential element in life Because without it you can't make a coffee Well, we will be making a coffee a little bit later on but I'm not sure I brought enough water with me Well plenty of water behind me with this lovely waterfall Hope you can hear me over the noise of the water now. Yes water on the trail. It is an issue When you want water, they'll be none around I haven't brought enough water with me today to make a cup of coffee Maybe I knew that they'd be water here Gonna make a cup of coffee in a minute if I was at home of course I would be able to have water on demand I'd be able to say chill off Throw some water, I'm absolutely spitting feathers here Is it even safe to say Water around here Egyptian towels, I've just dried myself off with this Egyptian towel quite lightweight and very absorbant Could be a winner for the West Thailand way. Thank you mum. Now what do we know about water? What I have learnt is you should never test how deep water is with both feet now I've already experienced Running out of water running very low on water should I say During a one night at a wild camp last summer and it's an awful feeling knowing you've got many many more miles to do and And you have no water in the baking hot sunshine. I actually ended up having to drink some dark brown water It was dark brown because of the peat and it had a very earthy taste to it But yeah, I had no filter anything like that So yeah, I had to drink this dark brown water. It's amazing how at first I was really against drinking it looking at thought no way and as the first got worse That water suddenly looked very inviting some of the experts actually say that you should replenish your water drink about Half a liter of water for every hour that you are hiking and And even more if it's a more intense hike of course on long haigs you just cannot carry that sort of water around with you all the time So collecting and refilling water on the trail is vital now this water of course needs filtering So this is the device I will be taking on my West Highland Way adventure to filter my water now I know a lot of you have said that you don't need to take anything because the water is clear and there's lots of places where I can actually collect water That is drinkable, but rather be safe and sorry I've decided to take this with me it packs away pretty small So the gravity works system by platypus is It's a two liter system it allows you to filter two liters of water all in one go without pumping Straight into say another reservoir or straight into pretty much any bottle It has a special connector that as you can see there Connects to any bottle size and it really does so most of the time the water is Pretty clear and it is running do I really need to filter it? What are the dangers? So the dangers of drinking unfiltered water from streams And puddles Is it might contain pathogens and Pathogens is a disease causing germ in lemon terms it might contain germs And that is where your filter is going to help you out because the filter is going to filter out Most of the pathogens, but not all of them Some of them will have to be sorted out by boiling the water or of course some chemical treatment like Purification tablets so basically if you filter and boil your water Then you're going to be fine the sheeler there making away over having a lovely walk today good practice for the West Island way It's going to be a great adventure for us and I just don't want to get caught out So I am deciding to take along the water filter It looks like a really easy system to use this platypus system Because it's got a wide opening at the top of the the bag for the dirty water Which makes it easy to collect it and it's also got a little clamp on the on the pipe Which means that you can filter you know you can stop and start the filtering whenever you want Glorious views today. I hope you have enjoyed Hello Yes Oh September September time. Yes That's when That's when I'm doing the West Island way yes September time. Yes. May my last. Yeah. It's gonna be great. Yeah Okay, yeah September I just said that Okay, yep, bye Sorry about that Yeah, they were just wondering when I were doing the West Island way may my last to doing that in September and We will be using gadgets like this that I've talked about today on the West Island way and all you guys that upload them Fantastic videos on while camping camping outdoors gear reviews It's thanks to you guys and your videos that I've got this far this West Island way trip that me and my last are doing is Pretty much fueled by YouTube videos and if our West Island way trip all goes wrong It will be of course all your fault. So that is it for this one a little look and a little chat about water filtration and collection Along the trail if you have liked this video then give me a like consider subscribing if you want to see more videos like this That way you'll be notified of all my new uploads. I don't know where I will be next, but I know I want you with me So until the next one. Bye