Water quality at Lake Como
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- Altitude High
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Water quality at Lake Como
Has anyone drank the water at Lake Como after treating it? I usually use Aqua Mira but also have a Pur Hiker filter.
- justiner
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Re: Water quality at Lake Como
You'll probably be fine. I personally would source water from the creek the flows up above into Lake Como, but that's just me.
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Re: Water quality at Lake Como
I used a hollow fiber filter to fill my bottles with lake water before doing the traverse last week. No adverse effects but there was a noticeable bad taste. The water was extremely cold so I wasn't too worried. Filtering from a fast running stream will almost always result in better water if you don't want to be lazy like me.Altitude High wrote: ↑Thu Sep 22, 2022 7:08 pm Has anyone drank the water at Lake Como after treating it? I usually use Aqua Mira but also have a Pur Hiker filter.
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Re: Water quality at Lake Como
I seem to remember that we filtered water from a creek while we were there, but maybe we filtered lake water. Either way we had no problems with it.
Sean Nunn
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Sean Nunn
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- mtree
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Re: Water quality at Lake Como
It didn't look too pretty whenever I was there. I'm sure its ok, but with a summer's worth of hikers and campers and whatever they do around the area I decided to get water from the streams above. There are also lakes above it that looked MUCH better!
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