{"id":3075,"date":"2010-09-06T13:17:02","date_gmt":"2010-09-06T20:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/?p=3075"},"modified":"2016-05-27T13:39:59","modified_gmt":"2016-05-27T19:39:59","slug":"gear-review-steripen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/06\/gear-review-steripen\/","title":{"rendered":"Gear Review: SteriPEN"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_3076\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3076\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-3076\" href=\"http:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/06\/gear-review-steripen\/steripen\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-3076\" title=\"SteriPEN\" src=\"http:\/\/www.alanarnette.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/steripen-225x169.jpg\" alt=\"SteriPEN\" width=\"225\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3076\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SteriPEN<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you have ever had bad water on a long backpacking trip,     or even a trek, medical<\/a>  you know it can be the end &#8211; literally! In my time, <\/a>  I had come to depend on filtration pumps or iodine to  bad water so when SteriPEN came out with a small, lightweight device that used ultraviolet light to  water, it caught my eye. But it has been a bit expensive.<\/p>\n<p>Early in 2010, REI sent out their annual dividend so combined with a 20% , I picked up the SteriPEN Adventurer model for about half of the retail $100. After five months of heavy use, I though a review was in order. Click the link for all the details.<\/p>\n<p>But the bottom line is I like the SteriPEN. It is small, simple and fast. I like knowing my water is ed without chemicals and appreciate the maintenance free aspect of the technology.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alanarnette.com\/climbing\/gearreviews.php\" target=\"_blank\">Gear Review: SteriPEN Adventurer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Climb On!<\/p>\n<p>Alan<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you have ever had bad water on a long backpacking trip, or even a trek, medical you know it can be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[123],"tags":[101],"class_list":["post-3075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musings","tag-steripen"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gear Review: SteriPEN - The Blog on alanarnette.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"alanarnette.com is a site covering big mountain climbing including Everest, K2, and the 7 summits. 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