1. Don’t carry full water bottles up every goddamn mountain. Drink at the bottom,where there’s normally a good source, then fill your bottles halfway.
2. Purell doesn’t kill noro or E. coli. Neither does hand soap, and unless you scrub like a surgeon. whether you regain sick,it’s probably not because of that one time last week when you forgot to wash your hands before scarfing down that surprise M&M that’s been sitting at the bottom of your pack for god knows how long. ...
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