Edit - Katadyn Hiker - Troy Pelzel

Troy,
  
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 Cheers, Richard

  
 ### Your I got into backpacking about seven years ago when a friend took me to the Boston Mountains, which is part of the Ozarks in Arkansas. ###
 EDIT: which are part ["Mountains" is plural]
  
 ### I hike in this area around 6 times a year. ###
Edit: six times [A style issue, so up to you, but single-digit words in text are far easier to read if spelled out.]
  
 ### My overnight backpacking includes river crossings, steep terrain, bouldering, bushwacking ###
EDIT: bushwhacking [spelling]
  
 ### I like to keep my hiking trips to under 25 miles (40.25 km) for the entire trip.
 
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 EDIT: (40 km) [25 miles is approximate, so round off the metric.]
  
 ### Output: 1qt/min (1L/min)###
 EDIT: Output: 1L/min [One of the few measurements that doesn't need to be converted is liters when referring to water, whether in bladder capacity or filter capacity.]
  
 
### The fiber/carbon filter easily unscrews from the housing and comes with a .11 oz (3 g) tube ###
EDIT: 0.11 oz [Always add a zero in front of a decimal fraction that's less than 1. Too easy to miss that little period.
  
 ### FIELD USE ###
 EDIT: Need some more details here, such as temperature range, nature of the water (silty? pristine?}, did you filter into a bottle, and the like. Be sure to include how and how often you clean it. See also my last EDIT below.
  
 ### I typically hike in the Ozark Mountains in Northwestern Arkansas which offerssome very clean springs, creeks, and rivers to draw water from. ###
EDIT: which offer [Same as above.]
  
 ### In the seven years that I"ve had this filter I have used it on 50+ backpacking trips totaling around 125 uses. ###
 EDIT: I've [apostrophe not a quotation mark]
 Edit/Comment: Can you estimate volume you've filtered? I think your readers would be interested if you've approached or exceeded the listed capacity.
  
 ### My trips are typically in the fall, spring, and winter months. I have not used the pump when the temperatures were below 20 degrees F (11 C). ###
EDIT 20 F (-7 C) [1. Conversion is wrong. 2. BGT convention on reporting temperature is no "degrees" or degree symbol. Fix item 2 in a couple other places please.]
  
 ### On Thanksgiving weekend last year ###
 EDIT: Thanksgiving weekend (late November) [Other countries - Canada for instance - have a Thanksgiving holiday at different times, and we have international readers.]
  
 ### It typically takes around 1 minute to filter 1.06 qt (1 L) of water ###
 EDIT 1 liter [As above – only the metric needed.]
  
 
 ### * Short hoses makes water access difficult ###
EDIT: Noteworthy observation, but none of your commentary includes when or how often this problem occurred.