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Adventure Alan & Co: Best Ultralight Water Filters For Backpacking 2025

A review for the best ultralight water filters for backpackers.

Adventure Alan & Co: Best Ultralight Water Filters For Backpacking 2025

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May 12, 2025
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Adventure Alan & Co: Best Ultralight Water Filters For Backpacking 2025

Adventure Alan & Co: Best Ultralight Water Filters For Backpacking 2025

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A review for the best ultralight water filters for backpackers.

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Best Ultralight Water Filters For Backpacking 2025

Squeeze Based Ultralight Water Filters & The Vessels To Pair Them With
After thoroughly analyzing the marketplace and testing most possible combinations, we can officially say that these are the best squeeze based ultralight water filters for backpacking. This guide takes into account not just the filter units, but which vessel to pair each with, what they’re best at, and where in your pack to store them.

Hop onto the PCT this summer and you’ll see that virtually every thru-hiker is using an ultralight squeeze filter. That’s because they’re the fastest, simplest, and most reliable system for both soloists and groups (so long as everyone has their own). As such, we have excluded all of the outdated or nonsensical options, including pumps, straws, UV pens, and gravity-based system. Chemical treatments work great, but aren’t featured here because this guide is specific to ultralight water filters.

Continue reading to learn more about the best ultralight water filters for backpacking, written by Jaeger Shaw.

Adventure Alan & Co: Best Ultralight Water Filters For Backpacking 2025

Best Ultralight Water Filters For Backpacking 2025

Squeeze Based Ultralight Water Filters & The Vessels To Pair Them With
After thoroughly analyzing the marketplace and testing most possible combinations, we can officially say that these are the best squeeze based ultralight water filters for backpacking. This guide takes into account not just the filter units, but which vessel to pair each with, what they’re best at, and where in your pack to store them.

Hop onto the PCT this summer and you’ll see that virtually every thru-hiker is using an ultralight squeeze filter. That’s because they’re the fastest, simplest, and most reliable system for both soloists and groups (so long as everyone has their own). As such, we have excluded all of the outdated or nonsensical options, including pumps, straws, UV pens, and gravity-based system. Chemical treatments work great, but aren’t featured here because this guide is specific to ultralight water filters.

Continue reading to learn more about the best ultralight water filters for backpacking, written by Jaeger Shaw.

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Wilderness backpacking is life’s greatest passion for Jaeger Shaw, despite making every possible mistake on a fateful, life-trajectory-altering first trip in 2011.
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Adventure Alan & Co: Best Ultralight Water Filters For Backpacking 2025

Best Ultralight Water Filters For Backpacking 2025

Squeeze Based Ultralight Water Filters & The Vessels To Pair Them With
After thoroughly analyzing the marketplace and testing most possible combinations, we can officially say that these are the best squeeze based ultralight water filters for backpacking. This guide takes into account not just the filter units, but which vessel to pair each with, what they’re best at, and where in your pack to store them.

Hop onto the PCT this summer and you’ll see that virtually every thru-hiker is using an ultralight squeeze filter. That’s because they’re the fastest, simplest, and most reliable system for both soloists and groups (so long as everyone has their own). As such, we have excluded all of the outdated or nonsensical options, including pumps, straws, UV pens, and gravity-based system. Chemical treatments work great, but aren’t featured here because this guide is specific to ultralight water filters.

Continue reading to learn more about the best ultralight water filters for backpacking, written by Jaeger Shaw.

照片缩略图 博客作者
Owner & Managing Editor
杰格-肖
Wilderness backpacking is life’s greatest passion for Jaeger Shaw, despite making every possible mistake on a fateful, life-trajectory-altering first trip in 2011.
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43.2% of hikers used the Sawyer Squeeze, the most common hollow membrane squeeze filter (and the most common water treatment overall).

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Randy Patton’s late father, Biff Patton, launched the water filter program in 2010.

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The most significant being its positive impact on our health after using it, its capacity to reduce our expenses on water treatment and access to safe water, and the time it saves by eliminating the need for boiling or treating water.

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