Who has ditched the trusted Nalgene bottle?

[Moby Sculpin]

You’ll pry my Nalgene out of my cold dead fingers! While hiking my rifle (or camera, for that matter) around the woods I carry a 3L bladder of water and a Nalgene of electrolyte mix that I sip throughout the day. Just before bed, pour that empty Nalgene full of boiling water and put it in the foot of the bag…it’s FANTASTIC!! If the temps drop and you wake up cool, pull that warm bottle up between the femorals and let it warm your blood. Adds 10deg to your bag with nothing else to futz with.

 

[Dave0317]

The bad thing about the wide mouth Nalgene is if you're several miles / hours from camp with no water around eating lunch & accidentally knock yours over you'll have approximately 0.05 ounces left for the next 8-9 hours. Don't ask me how I know this

This is one of my OCD habits. I rarely set a bottle down without putting the cap on.

Accidents happen!

 

[jtevanMT]

I have used HPDE Nalgene’s and a Sawyer Mini filter for the last few years. After reading this thread I am going with the following on my first of 2 x 5 day archery elk trips next week.

2L CNOC (dirty water)
Sawyer Filter (upgraded from Mini)
1L Smart Water Bottle
1L Platypus Bladder
2L Platypus bladder for camp

I will try both the 1L Smart Water and 1L Platypus each day and see what I like best.