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Location: The old Northwest Coast.
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As an aside; I was Scout in the late 60's, we started boiling all our free range water to avoid "beaver fever". I recall hiking the Sequoia-Whitney trail in the early 80's & we boiled (I carried a small portable pressure cooker... sweet!) & treated all water, even the water from 10'000'+ lakes with floating bergs. We came across a bear that the rangers had tipped us off about. That bear did a daily 4,000' elevation gain hike just to harass campers at like 11'000 feet. I still carry purification tablets out of ancient habit but there are sure a lot of options for filtering and treatment.
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