Wee parcel of joy from across the pond (and North Sea) arrived today. A couple of these (turns a 0.5l Platy bottle into a great meths fuel tank), one of these (which I should have got in the winter...) and this stuff - Hydropel - foot salve of light weight, long distance champions.
The Nalgene 48 oz is the ideal bottle size for the water needs for dinner and breakfast. I just wish Nalgene flexible canteens were more readily available in Europe.
Nielsen - I use Platypus bottles most of the year and find them fine but during winter the narrow openings have a tendency to freeze. I searched high and low for a European supplier of Nalgene's flexible Wide Mouth Canteens with no luck. I was over at BPL looking to order some Hydropel and stuck the Wide Mouth Canteen into the 'shopping basket' at the same time. I paid a premium for postage but sometimes it just has to be done.
Oh man, not one but two great bits of kit I need to get. I make my own carb-gel, and at the moment I decant it into old Weider energy gel packets - but a platy with one of those spouts would be just awesome. And the wide-mouth flexible Nalgene? Looks like my pee-bottle woes will be gone next winter. Many thanks!!!
Chris - I love the outdoor blogging community's ability to highlight little things that other people are searching for, sometimes not even aware that such a thing exists. I have certainly discovered half a dozen such 'little things' from other people's blogs. Glad I could help.
The FireLite spouts are quite a fine nozzle so as long as your carb-gel isn't too thick then I think they would be perfect. I almost tried it out for you with some Maxim gel and my Platy 0.5l bottle but I'm not sure I can be bothered to clean it all up afterwards! On the subject of Platy bottles why oh why did Platypus stop making the Lil' Nipper. Discontinued before I managed to snag one.
The Nalgene Wide Mouth Flexible Canteen? Probably the greatest piss bottle in the world!
The Nalgene 48 oz is the ideal bottle size for the water needs for dinner and breakfast. I just wish Nalgene flexible canteens were more readily available in Europe.
ReplyDeleteNielsen - I use Platypus bottles most of the year and find them fine but during winter the narrow openings have a tendency to freeze. I searched high and low for a European supplier of Nalgene's flexible Wide Mouth Canteens with no luck. I was over at BPL looking to order some Hydropel and stuck the Wide Mouth Canteen into the 'shopping basket' at the same time. I paid a premium for postage but sometimes it just has to be done.
ReplyDeleteOh man, not one but two great bits of kit I need to get. I make my own carb-gel, and at the moment I decant it into old Weider energy gel packets - but a platy with one of those spouts would be just awesome. And the wide-mouth flexible Nalgene? Looks like my pee-bottle woes will be gone next winter. Many thanks!!!
ReplyDeleteChris - I love the outdoor blogging community's ability to highlight little things that other people are searching for, sometimes not even aware that such a thing exists. I have certainly discovered half a dozen such 'little things' from other people's blogs. Glad I could help.
ReplyDeleteThe FireLite spouts are quite a fine nozzle so as long as your carb-gel isn't too thick then I think they would be perfect. I almost tried it out for you with some Maxim gel and my Platy 0.5l bottle but I'm not sure I can be bothered to clean it all up afterwards! On the subject of Platy bottles why oh why did Platypus stop making the Lil' Nipper. Discontinued before I managed to snag one.
The Nalgene Wide Mouth Flexible Canteen? Probably the greatest piss bottle in the world!