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I've seen two Nalgenes broken. One took a 28,000 pound machine to crush it, so somewhat understandable. 😜 The other was a rather surprising 3' drop, but it was an ancient bottle. Frozen solid many, many times too. Still, I'm solidly in the Nalgene camp. Well, well worth the slight cost and small weight penalty. Nalgenes and SOURCE bladders only for this kid.

Source Tactical bladders for primary use, and a 1L Nalgene in my pack as a backup. Rapid Pure filter inline with the bladder/hose setup.

That was back during your fat phase, hey?

Where's that middle finger emoji when a guy needs it?

Ted, these are a couple I use. Both are 32oz. The wide mouth is nice to fill in the creek, the smaller mouthed bottle is easier to drink from. Especially if you're riding a horse. One of the features about these I like are the connected tops. I had a hunter lose a cap one time in a fast moving creek. We made a cork stopper out of wood, and got by, but it was a pain in the butt.

It's a high quality accessory, and well worth the money.

This one? 🖕🤓🖕

Haha

Yup. That one. LOL.

My family, buddies and myself all use the wide mouth 32oz, almost exclusively. The wide mouth Nalgene threads are such a industry standard, many accessories are threaded to fit them. IE; MSR water filters.

That's the word I was looking for. I've had two slow leak through the connected top....

These are the style I use too and all I have are the smaller drinking top, not the wide mouth. I spill all over myself with the wide....

The wide mouth nalgene allows you to pull drinking water from a very shallow seep or trickle, which has saved me several times from having to make a 1500+ foot drop/climb for water.

They might just make a great camping flask too.
But I wouldn't know anything about that.

I wouldn't use gatorade bottles by themselves, but paired with an extra or with a good bladder is fine. Even a holed bottle can be taped and scoop water into a bladder. My 3-liter camelbak unbottle is indispensible...I can't imagine being limited to a liter or two of water on my person. Add 4-liters of bag storage and a guy can stay at altitude for a while. My nalgenes stay home, or go on boat rides. Tough they are, light they're not. But I'm not a guide, so what the hell do I know.

There are a couple styles of wide-mouth bottle inserts like that. They make drinking while horseback much easier.

On a hot day I don't mind a little splash down the front of my shirt. on a cold day, not so much.

An adult sippee cup, Nalgene's thought of it all, great product I have all my powder measures converted to use Nalgene bottles.

Put me in the nalgene free camp. One gatorade bottle and two dasani water bottles. My dogs favorire chew toy in a dasani water bottle. Been two weeks on the latest one and no holes yet. Dasani brand are slightly thicker plastic. A big reason I bring them is that they fit into an inside pocket. Lots of my adventures take place where the air hurts your face and keeping water thawed in a pocket is essential. Also ounces make pounds and three water or gatorade bottles weigh less than one nalgene.

And if your trip was ruined because you broke your ONE way of carrying water thats on you. Do you carry one firelighting method or not double waterproof your sleeping bag?

Ill take three redundant water bottles that I have never broken. Dont need three? Who cares. It weighs an ounce and a third.

I have lots of nalgenes bought over the years. Friends use nalgene cozys to keep them thawed but inevetibly they end up thawing one every now and then.

For me the separate water bottle method works best.

If your dog's been chewing on a Dasani water bottle for two weeks and still hasn't put a hole in it, you need a new dog.

Yeah my dog would destroy an anvil in two weeks!
I like and use Nalgene’s but my main go to water bottle is a Vargo titanium. Expensive, yes but can be used on a fire if necessary to heat water and titanium never imparts any taste to the water.

I just use a bladder to carry and store water. And since going to a squeeze filter, something to dip the water out of the source is needed so I usually use my insulated plastic mug for that.

With the handle cut off of course because "ounces make pounds." When I do bring a nalgene it's usually a 500 ml one with single malt.

LOL. Truth.