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Every once in a while a product comes along that makes you just say, "Wow! Why
didn't I think of that?" One of those of course is the original Camelbak which got
hydration off of your bottle cage and unto your back. You could carry more water.
You would have more water easily accessible which made you drink more. but
Camelbak packs have some limitations. And thankfully, a local company here in
Utah has come up with a new solution that makes you say, "Wow! Why didn't I
think of that?" But what is this new idea that folks have come up with? Well,
Geigerrig Company based in Utah said, "Why didn't you take one of your regular
hydration pack and put it under a little bit of pressure so that you can do this." You
pump it up a few times. You can see it starts to inflate a section right behind the
water bladder. And waht that does is it puts pressure against the water and
provides the ability to spray water wherever you need. Now you may say, "Why do
I need that? I am perfectly comfortable using a bite valve." Well, what happens if
you want to share your water with somebody out there in the trail? Have you look
at your bite valve lately? It does have a hard sheet in the back to help keep that
pressure pumping. You also have two zippered pockets up here. You have got one
for your mp3 player with a headphone cord. And then another bogger pockets that
runs away to the back. Heavy padding. This is really firm stuff so while it feel
comfortable on your back. It will also retain its shape and keep this air channels,
keeping you nice and vented throughout the day. Nice thing about this Geigerrig
Hydration Engine or a bladder from Hydropack is this is got a really wide mouth so
can drop in drink mixes if you want , plenty of ice, you can probably even load it
right up from an ice machine. Once you have got it filled, you do not have to worry
if the seal is tight, if you screwed things on. All you do is you slide this part on and
boom, you have got a bomb proof seal and all we do is pop or connector back on,
snaps on, we are good to go. All you need to do to clean it is you can just pull it
inside-out, quickly inside-out you can dry it off in a drying air. One of the things
I
always dislike about the traditional hydration packs as supposed to water bottles
is, you do not want a hot and dusty ride. You could not just pull something out,
spray all over your face and keep going. You know, get that little rinse of some of
the road (2:57)___ off. Now with this Geigerrig, not a problem. This is an in-line
filter. Now normally a filter would not work with a traditional hydration pack
because there is no enough pressure pumping the water through the filter to
remove germs or the viruses or anything else that you are worried about. But
because this pack does have pressure, this could work. This is a two ounce filter.
That is all it ways. It ways virtually nothing. You would not even notice it in
addition to your pack. And all you have to do is swap out this part, pop this on and
boom, suddely we attached it to the pack down in there and you have got the in-
line filter. So you could even drink directly out of this stream though I would not
recommend but this filter will remove 99% of cryptosporidium and giardia. So this
could be your back country life-saver if you are out, away from any sort of filtered
water. So it is the hydration pack from Geigerrig. It won the Innovation Award at
the most recent Outdoor Retailer Show. Backpacker magazine has been crowing
about it as one of their Best Product of the Year. It is even been endorsed by some
Navy Seal. You know how those guys feel about their quipment. You can get more
information on this or any of the products that we have field tested on our
website PARKCITY.TV. I am going to keep myself hydrated and get to move on and I
will see you next time.