Outdoor Life names SteriPEN Classic Editors Choice for Water Purifiers
Outdoor Life recently gear tested 5 of the leading water purification devices. The Editor’s Choice is the SteriPEN Classic UV water purifier. The gear review included: MSR Hyperflow Platypus Gravity Works Katadyn Hiker Pro MSR Miniworks SteriPEN Classic with Pre-Filter Outdoor Life evaluated each system against output time, ease of use and durability in settings ranging from [...]
Uncooped.com: Steripen Freedom Goes Ultralight And Reusable
Steripen, which has been racking up awards for UV light purifiers like the Adventurer Opti, has launched a bigger, badder model. Actually, it’s a smaller, friendlier model. The Freedom is the company’s smallest and lightest UV purifier to date and is also its first rechargable model. Given the explosion of portable solar and crank chargers [...]
What Gear Every Outdoorsman Wants
By Jessi Loerch, Herald Writer (Everett, Washington Newspaper) Steripen What: A small, wand-shaped light that allows you to treat drinking water using UV light.Why: If you’re going to spend much time outdoors, you need a way to treat drinking water. The Steripen is my favorite.
Outdoor Life Survivalist Blog: SteriPEN Sidewinder: A Hand Crank UV Light Water Purifier
If you told someone 300 years ago, that you had a little machine that created light when you cranked a handle, and this light made water safe to drink – you would have been burned at the stake as a witch. If you told the same tale 100 years ago, you’d probably be locked up [...]
BackPackingLight labels Adventurer Opti as “recommended”
There are many ways used to ensure water is safe to drink. The principle ones are boiling, chemical treatment, filtration and UV irradiation. Boiling uses lots of fuel and gives you very hot water; chemicals usually leave a nasty taste and can takes ages to work, while not managing to hit all protozoa; filtration is [...]
Outdoor Magazine USA introduces SteriPEN Freedom
Hydro-Photon, Inc. has unveiled SteriPEN’s new Freedom—the company’s smallest, lightest and first rechargeable UV water purifier. The product’s integrated battery recharges via a micro USB port, meaning users can recharge using their computer, an AC outlet or compatible solar charger. The versatile Freedom also serves as a convenient LED flashlight.
Trail Runner Magazine names Adventurer Opti as Editor’s Choice
View the feature in the print edition of Trail Runner Magazine.
SteriPEN Traveler mentioned on Boston.com blog “Globetrotting”: Pack right, light and drink safely
Boston.com blog “Globetrotter” features SteriPEN Traveler in blog post “Pack right, light and drink safely“. We at SteriPEN greatly appreciate all the great information Boston Globe and boston.com have distributed over the past several years. Purity in a hurray – SteriPEN Journey Portable rays make water more potable Cleaner water with a wand
SteriPEN Adventurer Opti featured in Michigan Live’s “Putting Outdoor Gear To the Test’
If there’s one thing outdoor junkies love as much as playing outside, it’s new gear to play with while they’re doing it. Here are some field-tested products any backpacker would love. Read full feature story
Benosh.com reviews SteriPEN Traveler: SteriPEN Traveler: the UV Solution
“Don’t drink the water!” How many times have you heard that when traveling to any third-world country, especially the US’s neighbor to the south? In America, we take for granted the quality of our municipal water…until we travel. Or until we go hiking and meet a little friend named giardia. Then suddenly it’s important, making [...]
Baltimore Sun features SteriPEN Adventurer Opti
Getting out in nature for a hike or a trail run can offer an escape from the modern world. But that doesn’t mean techie innovations should be left at home, especially when they enhance the experience in a quiet, unobtrusive way. If you want to get there or get back faster and safer, these lightweight [...]
LA Times features SteriPEN Adventurer Opti in “High Tech Hiking”
Getting out in nature for a hike or a trail run can offer an escape from the modern world. But that doesn’t mean techie innovations should be left at home, especially when they enhance the experience in a quiet, unobtrusive way. If you want to get there or get back faster and safer, these lightweight [...]
Hartford Courant features SteriPEN Adventurer Opti in “High Tech Hiking”
Getting out in nature for a hike or a trail run can offer an escape from the modern world. But that doesn’t mean techie innovations should be left at home, especially when they enhance the experience in a quiet, unobtrusive way. If you want to get there or get back faster and safer, these lightweight [...]
SteriPEN Adventurer Opti featured in Chicago Tribune
Getting out in nature for a hike or a trail run can offer an escape from the modern world. But that doesn’t mean techie innovations should be left at home, especially when they enhance the experience in a quiet, unobtrusive way. If you want to get there or get back faster and safer, these lightweight [...]
Apa Sherpa climbs Mount Everest for 21st time; Lists SteriPEN Adventurer Opti as hiking essential
Last week, Apa Sherpa made it to the summit of Mount Everest for a record-breaking 21st time. This “Super Sherpa”, who now lives in Utah, has climbed for the past several years with the Eco Everest Expedition, a team with a “leave no trace” outdoor ethic dedicated to cleaning up Everest. The group has brought down [...]
Bottled Water Regulation
Over the last couple of decades, bottled water has become a common product in the United States. Most people would argue that they trust bottled water to provide a cleaner, tastier and healthier product than tap water, and this justifies paying extra for it. But are these assumptions backed up by facts?
Explore the lost coast
America’s thousands of miles of coastline have been almost entirely tamed. There are few places to find true wilderness on the coast of continental America, and California’s Lost Coast is one of the wildest and most scenic stretches left. While highway 1 hugs the majority of the California coastline, bringing development, cities and towns with [...]
Wanderlust and Lipstick
Your Destination for Women’s Travel Beth Whitman shares her passion for travel by providing inspiration, tips and words of wisdom from her 20 plus years of travel experience. Wanderlust and Lipstick provides both the nervous newbie and the well-seasoned Wanderluster with all the tools needed to set out on a dream journey. Beth’s gear always includes a [...]
SteriPEN Adventurer Opti featured in Sydney Morning Herald
Sydney Morning Herald travel blogger Ben Groundwater called SteriPEN an essentialbackpacking water purifier in a recentartcicle! As Groundwater rightly states, you don’t need much beyond a plane ticket and some clothes to have the time of your life backpacking, but a few key high-tech items like our travel water purification device can make your trip a whole lot [...]
SteriPEN Adventuerer Opti in Outside Online Top Ten Gear of 2010
AdventurerOpti was featured in Outside online’s top ten gear picks of 2010! Read the rest of the article here! Article excerpt: 7. Adventurer Opti This water purifier pen zaps viruses, bacteria and protozoa such as giardia and cryptosporidium with ultra-violet light. Press the button, dip the lamp into your drink, and wait 90 seconds [...]
SteriPEN Adventurer Opti “recommended” at BackPackerLight.com
There are many ways used to ensure water is safe to drink. The principle ones are boiling, chemical treatment, filtration and UV irradiation. Boiling uses lots of fuel and gives you very hot water; chemicals usually leave a nasty taste and can takes ages to work, while not managing to hit all protozoa; filtration is [...]
Passport Health
Passport Health, dedicated to “first class medical care for travel anywhere,” is the largest provider of travel medical services in the United States with locations nationwide. Whether traveling for business, pleasure or a volunteer adventure, Passport Health prepares travelers for their trips with destination-specific travel information, including water safety information, as well as immunizations, travel [...]
OPERATION USA
Operation USA is an international relief agency that helps communities at home and abroad overcome the effects of disasters, disease and endemic poverty by providing privately-funded relief, reconstruction and development aid. Since 1979, the Los Angeles-based nonprofit has worked in 99 countries, delivering over $350 million for relief and development projects. The organization supports several [...]
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