Their three-year-old Sawyer Micro always works at the start of each trip even after being forgotten in storage.
water filter
- Category
- Water filter
- Type
- Squeeze
- Capacity / warmth / size
- Up to 100,000 gallons
- Material
- 0.1 micron absolute hollow fiber
- Weight
- 154 g (5.44 oz) as a system
What hikers keep saying · from 5 reviews
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Their Sawyer Micro hasn't been rendered useless after storage and remains highly dependable.
Prefers the flow rate of their Sawyer Micro over the HydroBlu they had before.
Their Sawyer Micro is about three years old and still works great.
Hiked the whole JMT (200 miles over 20 days) with their Micro Squeeze with no clogs or reduced flow, even without backflushing.
The Micro Squeeze is their go-to, though it slows sooner than the regular Squeeze between flushes and flows poorly if not stored properly.
On its first trip the body of their Sawyer Micro Squeeze came apart, spraying water everywhere, and they had to hold it together by hand.
Hates the Sawyer Micro: filling a bottle felt like 10 minutes of hard squeezing.
Had a Micro and found it too much of a pain even when camping; the Squeeze they got instead is much better.
Their Micro Squeeze cracked at the seam when dropped once, with no warranty from Sawyer; it now just sits on their gear table.
In their experience the Micro is a decent filter; it lives in their day hiking kit for when they may not need a filter.
Used the Sawyer Micro on the PCT and AZT and found it better than the Mini, partly thanks to backflushing with a spigot coupler.
Finds the Micro an improvement over the Mini with better flow, and it works fine for their shorter trips.
Timed the Micro against the regular Squeeze and the Squeeze was noticeably faster; not worth it to shave an ounce.
Loves their Micro on trips where they strap it on a Smartwater dirty bottle and drink straight through it while hiking.
Started the PCT with the Micro, found it terrible and switched back to the Mini.
Got so frustrated with their Micro on a SOBO PCT hike that they swapped it for a regular Squeeze a section hiker was giving away and left it in the hiker box.
The Micro was their first squeeze-style filter, and they did not know how bad it was until trying the full size: night and day, despite all the backflushing tricks.