- Hey folks.
It's Lauren from Snowys here
with the HydraPak Expedition Water Container
in eight litre size. ♪ Hit it ♪ (hip-hop music)
It's a lightweight and super durable water storage option,
ideal for any adventures or even day trips down to the park.
So the Expedition Storage Container
will hold up to eight litres.
It weighs about 250 grammes,
so it's a little bit heavier-duty
than our other HydraPak storage options,
and it measures 30 centimetres
by about 20 centimetres wide
and about 15 centimetres deep.
As you can see here,
the shape of the bag is more ovular as opposed to circular.
It's made from polyurethane, polypropylene
and a range of other poly materials, (laughs)
that are are all food grade and BPA and PVC free.
On the front here, you can see
we have these reinforced daisy chain lashing points.
That is handy for if you are doing bike packing
or you wanna strap it to a backpack or something like that.
On the back here, we have a really strong nylon,
reinforced, I think it's reinforced
with some polyurethane cover
to make it nice and strong and durable,
a handle and also a suspension or hanging strap here
as well.
Now it does potentially look like it's not very strong
but if I sort of put my hand in here
and give that a bit of a pull, the top will move
because the blue ribbon is sort of gonna slide through here,
so you can adjust that height of the handle,
but the bag in any way, shape or form is not at risk.
It's not gonna tear or puncture or anything,
and as you can see,
I'm putting a fair amount of effort into that.
We also have this little hook on the back
which will allow you to stow your little hose
and tap here,
but you can also use that
to support hanging the bag as well if you like,
and we've got some increments here with the measurement.
Now, the bag is black,
which helps for reducing any sort of algae
or anything that sun can sort of affect the water
if you're storing in here for a long time.
But we do have this strip down the side here
which is, when it's filled with water,
it will be obvious where the water level's at
so you can easily check it against that gauge.
Now on the top here, we've got our lid.
Now, as you can see,
we've got this nice elastic tether to keep the lid in place.
Now on the lid itself
we've got a couple of little symbols here.
So we've got HydraPak and the HydraPak logo
and we've got these arrows and little raised points here
that you can tension with your fingers.
Basically, what that does,
is allow you to just turn this little nozzle,
which is spring loaded, I guess you could say,
and that pops this little plug out of the top.
And then that's where you can plug in your tap hose,
which just clicks in like so,
and that means that when you are hanging your bag,
or your bag is suspended,
you have a really super easy option
for filling up your water bottle
or your dish washing sink
or whatever it is.
Now, the tap itself is pretty nifty
because it has two different functions.
One, this little tab here that we've got,
is a rest for your thumb
and that means that you can push this button down
and release the water
without needing your second pair of hands.
So hypothetically, if I've got this bag hanging up,
I'm holding onto a drink bottle,
I can easily with one hand release that water
into the tap and control my flow.
We also have this little divot on the button here
which means that when I'm pushing down,
I can also twist it across
and that will lock the button into place
and let the water free flow
if I'm wanting to fill up something quite large.
So I'm gonna pop that hose off
and stick it back in the hook here for storage.
Now, the lid is a 63 mil lid,
or threaded cap here,
which means it is compatible with some other filter options,
potentially like your MSR Guardian water filter,
for example, is of the same size as this.
We also have, inside the bladder,
which you can't see really from the inside,
but from the outside a little bit,
I'm not sure if the camera will pick up
these little ridges here, on both sides of the bag.
These are essentially just little reinforcement baffles
to help the bag keep its shape
as the water drains out of it.
So this bag also will roll up and store away super easy.
What you need to do for that
is to simply remove your little elastic tether,
and I'll pop the plug back into the cap like so,
and then I'm going to roll up the bag,
get all of the air out,
and when that's done, I can screw the cap on,
wrap the elastic around a couple of times,
and then bring the loop back over the top of the cap.
And that's it,
all rolled up and stored away when it's not in use.
So that is about it
for the HydraPak Expedition
eight litre water storage container.
You can get this at snowys.com.au
at our lowest prices every day.
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