Outdoor water transport

So you're tired of refilling gallon water bottles and throwing them into your backpack to schlep them out to your remote growing location?

Me too.

So I bought one of these:



It's a solar camp shower, which I actually may use for its designated purpose someday. It's made of durable plastic, holds 4 gallons (they make them in 2.5 and 5 gallon sizes too). It has a shower head that has a snap action that closes it, which works very well.

It was about $20 at REI. Seems pretty damned solid. Plus, since I bought it at REI, if it craps out, no questions asked return. Not to mention the 10% off ...

I took my 10+ year old backpack, which had some convenient holes already punched in it, and dropped this bad boy in there. First thing I did was to remove the bar at the top which prevents it from fitting well in my bag:



This was as easy as a slit in the rubber and it slid out. It could easily go back in.

Next, I attached the handle at the top to the carrying handle on the top of the bag through a conveniently located tear at the top of my bag, using a strap that came with the reservoir:



The pack has its valve at the bottom, also nicely located near a hole in the bottom of the bag, which I pulled the tube through:



And ... that's all! Below you see the completed pack.



I used this for the first time today, and it was freaking awesome. Show up, pull out the hose - without taking the pack off - drop the head below waist level, and pull the head to get water flowing.

I don't have to set my bag down and pull out noisy water bottles, or at all between planting locations.

It is totally inconspicuous. It looks like a hydration pack - and can be used as one, as long as you're not loaded with nutrient solution.

I can't fit four gallon bottles in my pack, but I can easily get four gallons in my pack with this guy. I think I could have even fit the five-gallon monster in there.

I'll be using this quite regularly, so I'll post if I have any durability issues.

Originally Posted by 420inmyapt

HAHA if they had 5 gallon camel backs i would be dead on the side of a mountain.... I fill my camel back up with a nice cocktail (maybe captain and coke or a screw driver...) and go snowboarding, so i am kinda glad they don't make a 5 gallon camel back, that would just be bad news....

yikes. i stick with water in the camelbak and go with the nalgene flask for boarding. i'm always afraid anything but water won't leave my 'bak ..