Timberline filters.

• Author: Peterson, Eric
• Position: Cool colorado stuff

This mom-and-pop manufacturer has been in the filter business since pop--chemist Arnold Williams--went on a pack trip in the Flattop Wilderness Area in 1986. After watching his backcountry companions struggle with filters of all shapes and sizes, Williams said. "I ought to be able to do better than that," and co-founded Timberline with his wife Millie. Seventeen years later, the couple continues to do better than that, producing a pair of effective, affordable water filters: a traditional filter with a pump and straw and a larger "base camp" filter that you hang from a tree for no-hassle, gravity-powered filtration. As mega-stores have taken the retail world...