Sawyer Mini And 3 Hacks Using A Smartwater Bottle

hello youtube this is Sean Ryu and I'm back today with another video and today I'm going to be talking about the Sawyer mini and how you can make a $2 smart water bottle make this system work even better stay with me so the state of my intro I'm going to be talking about some tips and some things you can do to make the system work better again and she's a smart water bottle think that you're going to want to do is you're going to want to get one that's got this cap on it to my knowledge this is the only size but for two dollars which you can get out of this bottle is definitely worth it if you have one of these so let me go over a couple of things first of all before I get started this is a Sawyer mini I'm not sure if it will work with the sorter squeeze I do have one but I haven't tried it as far as what I'm going to talk about things that you'll notice is is that when you have a sore squeeze or mini you'll come with one of these syringes the reason for the syringe is so that way this gets filled or dirty and full of debris and things like that you can use this to back flush this out so one of the things it's an ultralight backpacker that I try and focus on is ways of reducing and shaving weight and only carrying what I really need and taking more of a middle of this approach so the first thing that I wanted to do is tell you a way that you can get rid of this so you don't have to carry this and it's using your 2 liter smart water bottle so what you can actually do is you can use this water bottle to back flush or if you have like a platypus bladder or something like that you can take this and you can attach it to it and what you're going to do is you're going to open the top up and this part right here will actually fit into the tip right here so I'm going to show you what I mean by that and this is the part that you would actually drink from so if you notice you can actually go and fit this in here and I've got a little bowl right here so I'm going to show you how you can actually back flush this if you hold it like this and you just hold it in the tip you'll notice that it's back flushing so basically what that does is allows me to make it so that I don't have to carry this anymore and I can just carry this top which is going to save weight and make it so I can eliminate using that other piece now the other thing that I want to talk about is that as everyone knows it uses any of the Sawyer products is that the bags really suck in addition to that the other problem that you run into with the Sawyer squeeze is sometimes that the different types of bladders don't always made up with it so another thing that I found out is that with this smart water bottle it will actually made up to this and you can use this to filter your water as well so let me give you an example and this is a brand new bottle too so I had to break off the top but you can actually screw this in like that and you've got a perfect fit if you notice the leaks and you can actually use this to also filter your water and what you would do is just squeeze a bottle just like you would if you had a bladder or something like that that way you can filter other positive side to this is is that if you're like me and you're constantly going from water source to water source and don't want to filter a lot of water you can just fill this up use it as your dirty bag then just drink straight from here and then the third tip is is that what I used to do is I used to always take my filter off and put it in my pack somewhere and when I stopped off at a water source or somewhere I'd have to go looking for it not that it was that much of a hassle but you know just one more thing you'd have to do and one of the other things that I started doing was I would just leave this on here that way if I want to drink from it I can drink from it but I just leave it on here and then keep it in my pack so I'll give you an example this is just a one of my older packs of uoa CDT but what I would do is just put it in the side pocket and just keep the filter on and you know even if you wanted to use a little compression strap just to make sure that it sticks or was in there a little tighter and then I just carried around like that that way when I got to a water source all I'd have to do take it out and then unscrew this fill this up with unscrew this and then fill this up with water and then again I could just drink straight from here without having to fill up a bag and I'll go from that perspective of a bag and then have to drink from the bag and up to filter everything out and then you know the other thing is is again I don't have to look for and then one of the other things I talked about in one of my previous videos I'll just pull it out it here is just something that I made if you just get an old you know thin water bottle you'll end up with this piece of or what you can do is you can let me open it up so I can see what I'm talking about you just get an old water bottle and just cut off you know maybe a quarter of it and just leave this part on and then just score the top so that way you can get rid of the rough edges what you have is a little scoop so if you're in areas where there's a little lying water you can just use this to scoop up your water fill this up or whatever bladder that you want and that just makes it so you had another lightweight option I've seen people that we're talking about using sandwich bags and stuff like that don't really think I would want to go that route this for me is work perfect as a scoop I've had this I'll probably using the same one now for going on two years and it's work perfect for me so just one other thing to say and then the other advantage to using like a smart water bottle versus maybe like a platypus or anything like that is is that you know every time you buy one you got some new water with it and then when this thing gets bad you can throw them out and these are pretty easy to find all over the place so you know you can also use as a backup option that way in the event that you run into a problem with one of your all your bladders that your carry around if it breaks when you just know that you can use this to filter your water you can use it to drink from your mini directly and it's just another way of carrying water so for me personally I've kind of walked away from using the bladders as much and started using these bottles it's more often so other than that if you have any questions feel free to comment or questions or comments please feel free to comment below as always like share and subscribe this is Sean Ryu

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Keywords: Smartwater, sawyer mini, sawyer, filter, water filter, tips and tricks, hacks, sawyer squeeze, Appalachian Trail, 2016 Thru hike gear, AT, Continental divide trail, CDT, PCT, Pacific Crest Trail, JMT, John Muir Trail, ultra light, ultralight, ultralite, ultra lite, backpacking, hiking, thru hike, survival, prepping, BOB, Bug Out Bag, camping, bushcraft, super ultra light, super ultralight, super ultra lite, super ultralite, emergency, sawyer mini mods, water purification

Id: LXnQ3mCBo9s

Length: 7min 9sec (429 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 21 2016