Anybody have any experience with these? Seen a few videos on YouTube of people using these with a sawyer squeeze micro and it looks like a nice little setup for gravity filtering water. I’m still pumping but have experienced gravity filters and would like to make the switch.

Bought a couple last year for our hiking trips and they are great. Bombproof you could stand on one after its full of water and it wont bust . I still bring our sawyer one litre water system bag on my canoe trips but bring one cnoc bag and sawyer mini just to filter water as were traveling with the canoe. I like keeping it in my CCS seat pad making it handy to dip in the water as were canoeing. By using this method we don't carry any more water on the portages. We tend to travel big routes and always hated stopping to filter water so we tended to carry two -three quarts when we would start out in the mourning and this usually got us thru the day, this way we basically get water as we need it.

Franzenrp: " Bombproof you could stand on one after its full of water and it wont bust . "

My main concern with them was that they looked kinda thin, like they could puncture easily but I’m glad to hear you say they’re durable! I think I will be ordering a couple before my trip in June.

I have no experience with the Cnoc bags, but I've looked at them. I wouldn't worry too much about it - just take duct tape and don't stab it too many times with the ice pick ;). Seriously though, I've used platypus bottles and bags, Sawyer squeeze bags, and MSR bags without problem; they're just going to hang from a tree limb. I take a Sawyer Water Filter Bottle to dip and drink out of while traveling. For gravity filtration, all you have to do is put a Sawyer filter between two bags (or water containers) with some tubing and fittings.

The squeeze bags are hard to fill; the Playpus or Cnoc bags will make better dirty water bags. Using different bags for clean and dirty water makes it easy prevent cross-contamination.

I don't use Cnoc but I do have a gravity system and it is so much better than pumping. I wouldn't worry about holes at all. Mine are a about 5 years old and still in fine shape. The only annoying thing is the water by shore is garbage so you will want to go out in the canoe about 20 feet out to fill the dirty bag.