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Survival Skillset

Lesson 9 of 12

Settling, boiling and distilling

45 min

Most people who get ill from water in the outdoors did treat it. They boiled it, or filtered it, or dropped in a tablet. Then they drank from a bottle whose threads had been dipped in the beck, or poured clean water into a mug that had scooped dirty water, or stirred it with a hand that had just rinsed a muddy pot. Treatment is only as good as the…

In this lesson

  • Clean and dirty discipline
  • How
  • Common mistakes
  • Settling and pre-filtering
  • Boiling
  • Why not longer?
  • What boiling does not do
  • Boiling at altitude
  • Boiling without a metal pot
  • Hot stones
  • Containers that do not burn
  • Distillation

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