[at-l] bottles versus ______ Re: 2011 thru hike

[Mike Cunningham]

I have tried bladders but favor bottles because 
 
#1 I never know how much water is in a bladder & I have run out.
 
#2 I have seen them leak & unless you are carrying a spare you are SOL.
 
I always carry at least two bottles usually Gatorade or soda bottles. For resupply I carry a 3 liter Nalgene Canteen. (hard to find but woth the search) When the bottles get crummy I replace them. I do use a regular Nalgene in the winter. Try putting boiling water into a Gatorade bottle can be exciting as it will shrink.
 
hikermiker

--- On Thu, 10/29/09, TrailR at aol.com <TrailR at aol.com> wrote:


From: TrailR at aol.com <TrailR at aol.com>
Subject: Re: [at-l] bottles versus ______ Re: 2011 thru hike
To: sloetoe at yahoo.com, vincentw at bellsouth.net, at-l at backcountry.net
Date: Thursday, October 29, 2009, 10:37 AM




I favor bladders, because I can't reach my bottle pockets... LOL!
I drink more with a bladder. Having said  that, I still use bottles in winter.
Nalgenes for freezing temps (I can put hot water in a Nalgene in my bag 
to stay warm, and not worry about leaks). Semi cold weather I use Gatorade 
bottles. They come pre filled!
 
On the trail:
Clean a bladder? You actually clean it? I treat all my water in the bladder with 
Aqua Mira, so I consider it clean all the time. All the gunk that forms in it is clean,
and just counts as extra ruffage. LOL! I rinse it in town.
When it gets really gross chunks, I just throw it away & get another one.
 
For local use (day hikes, cycling, etc.):
I clean it with a cleaning kit...
 
In a message dated 10/29/2009 9:57:50 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, sloetoe at yahoo.com writes:
### Bottles are free, and can be replaced from any trash can from Georgia to Maine. Bottles have few parts to lose, and those are orange sometimes. Bottles are easy to slip into bottle pockets; bladders are a wrestling match. Bottles don't require you to work to drink, bladders (unless they were wrestled in under pressure) require sucking a long straw. Bladders/long straws are a bitch to clean; bottles require .... nothing. Bottles are not a big deal in the cold; bladders require solar heating, neoprene socks, DOE nuclear devices, paperwork, regulation, religious conversion, etc.

I favor bottles.

Platypus bags are handy, though, for "blocks" of water when availability is a question -- like filling up in a valley so you can sleep on a mountaintop. Handy, that -- and they weigh squat, and take up near-zero room empty.

waterisgoodtoe

 
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