Welcome to episode 68 of the first 40 miles.

If you're new to backpacking, or if you're hopelessly in love with someone who wants you to love

backpacking, then this podcast is for you we'll talk about the

essentials how to lighten your load and how to make the most of your time on the

trail I'm your host Heather Legler and I'm Josh Legler and this is the first 40 miles.

Today on the first 40 miles flow the water episode. If you like H2O we've got some great info for you today.

We'll highlight the most common forms of water treatment on the trail.

For today's top five list, if you've been on the fence about how to store your water,

we'll give you some good reasons why you might want to skip the bladder.

Then on the summit gear review you'll learn how thousands of

through hikers have treated millions of leaders to stay hydrated on the trail.

On today's backpack hack of the week we'll sing a little ditty to help you remember

a simple water treatment formula. And we'll wrap up this show with a little trail wisdom

from the American government.

You dug up some trail wisdom from the American government.

Wow.

Beautiful and inspiring. You'll love it.

All of this, and that's about it today on the first 40 miles.

So back before the amazing technology that we have nowadays things were a little more primitive and

a little more rustic for people to purify water usually they would boil it

in fact they probably didn't do anything to it. They probably built up some kind of immunity,

but boiling water was pretty much the only way

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