Been hesitant to write about something as common and possibly inconsequential as a method of making coffee while out on the trail…

So why write one?

Meh, do not really know. Perhaps this GSI UL Coffee Filter has just impressed me enough to spend the thirty minutes writing this up.

I use to drink Starbucks Via both on the trail and at home. I would buy the 50-count House Blend off amazon. But I eventually got to the point where it was just not all that pleasurable. Every Christmas I still buy a few boxes of the Christmas blend but that seems to be it these days.

I am not some kind of coffee connoisseur but I sure do love the flavor of a couple of brands of coffee. The first is Jamaica Blue Mountain Peaberry (amazon) and the second is New Mexico Piñon Coffee ‘Dark Piñon’ (amazon).

I have bought a number of different drip filters for hiking with, including a Finum Gold Filter that I used for about four years. When it finally gave out I was going to buy another one, but the GSI Outdoors Ultralight Java Drip (amazon) caught my eye.

When I first saw this GSI coffee filter I was put off by the long leg stands, but my hope was that I could cut them, and turn it into a steeper filter, which, sure enough, I was able to do.

I have not kept track of how many cups of coffee it has survived through, but it is well over 500 cups. I never thought it would last this long, sure has surprised me.

On my calibrated scale, with the legs cut off a bit, the GSI UL Coffee Filter weights in at exactly 10 grams (0.35 oz) which is pretty dang sweet.

It is priced about 10 bucks, just about everywhere.

Thanks for reading,

+John Abela

HikeLighter.Com

In accordance of USA Federal Trade Commission 16 CFR, Part 255: I hereby declare that at the time this article is published that I am a sponsored hiker of Black Rock Gear, Montbell US, Suluk46, Sun Precautions.