A Letter to My Nalgene Bottle
Nov 14th 2007dbarnettGear & Top Ten Lists
One of my all time favorite camping, hiking, outdoors pieces of equipment is the Nalgene Lexan Bottle. I have found many uses for it over the years. Some, I’m sure you’ve tried…others…well…maybe not. This is an ode, an expression of my inexpressible love for all of my Nalgene bottles.
Oh Nalgene bottle, how I love thee…let me count the ways:
1. You hold my drinking water.
2. You can be filled with boiling water and shoved in my sleeping bag on a cold night.
3. You can double as a urinal on a cold or rainy night (make sure you don’t drink out of it afterwards).
4. Two of you can separate my filtered from unfiltered water.
5. You can hold my Big Agnes Air Pad.
6. You remove the nasty taste of my treated water.
7. You can double as a trash can.
8. You can double as a small bear canister (well…it’s worked so far…).
9. Your measurements make it oh so easy to cook.
10. You’re unbreakable unless filled with water, frozen, and then dropped out the third story of a dorm window.
11. You can double as my cookware when I sit you on my camp stove (avoid extreme temps).
12. You come in every color that suits my mood.
Nalgene bottle, you’re so very dear to me…
2 Comments »
peripateo on 03 Dec 2007 at 5:46 pm #
I’d be weary of “heating” a nalgene. There are already some crazy studies that say some component of the lexan cause cancer (which I don’t believe), but I still would be concerned about direct contact with fire.
Doesn’t seem like your slaughter it though.
I’d recommend a Guyot stainless steel bottle: http://www.guyotdesigns.com/stainlessbottles?sc=11
Not the rage of a nalgene, but I think a better wilderness option as it can be used to boil water. It has a very nice lip to it, which can be modified to accept a steel hanger as well.
The Great Outsmores » The Big Guy in Red was Good to me! on 27 Dec 2007 at 7:48 pm #
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