Over the past month I have been drinking water without filtering it first. I know I’m taking a chance that I might get some intestinal bug. But there have been mountain springs which flow directly from the rock. It is those springs that I drink directly. If it’s a creek or it looks ucky then I filter it. So far I’ve been fine.

Today when I nearly ran out of water I drank directly from Thielsen creek. If I had to filter all the water it would have taken over an hour to do it. Oh, and the creek was moving fast, it was beautiful and it flowed down from Mt. Thielsen. So far I feel fine after drinking it today.

Later in the day I got to Six Horse Spring. Because it is a spring I thought I might be able to use it directly. But when I got there it was a series of mucky ucky pools that I didn’t even want to filter from at all, but I needed water so I had to use it. Ugh.