Our Katadyn BeFree water filter was getting old, to the point where on a recent hiking trip it was an intense amount of work to get water through it. I asked Arturo if there was a better alternative nowadays and he mentioned the Platypus Quickdraw. There was an Amazon sale on the filter just before the New Zealand trip, so I bought one.
The device is light, fairly intuitive to use, and most importantly, fast when used with clean water like what we had at the various Kepler Track huts. Because it never got that hot, we never needed to use the filter on other days. On the one day it got really hot, we got tired long before we ran out of water.
I had a couple of accidents with the bottle, each time it was due to not screwing in the water bottle properly. When I remembered to do that, the filter was absolutely fool-proof. It was light, fitting into the small titanium pot I'd brought along for the trip. That it actually did do filtering was noticed at the Manapouri hut, where the tannins in the water did get filtered out.
Can't complain about something this easy to use and waterproof, other than the price.
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