Keep your Hydration System Smelling and Tasting Great
By Leon Pantenburg
Here’s a great way to keep your bladder style water hydration system from attracting mold and mildew: store it in your freezer.
Find a system for carrying lots of water and use it. If you store your hydration system in a freezer you can forget about mold!
I heard about this idea from a fellow shopper at REI. I was looking at the complex assortment of brushes and tools for cleaning bladder hydration systems, and complaining about how hard it was to keep my kids’ hydration systems fresh. CamelBak Skeeter Kid’s Hydration Pack
The shopper claimed to have used the same hydration system for 10 years, and said because it is always stored in the freezer, he doesn’t need to clean anything.
Freezing has no effect on the plastic, as long as the bladder and connecting hoses and valves are emptied.
I’ve been storing my Camelback CamelBak M.U.L.E. 100-Ounce Hydration Pack
and other types of hydration systems in my freezer for the past two years, and this tip works!
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