Forget the nalgene or poland spring bottles and bust out the Camelbak for classes.

My Nalgene bottle has gone straight from the trail to the office. Which, sadly, means that I have too.

beer > nalgene

i hate you alice. how's that for flamage!?

ok, i don't, but i love my beat up nalgene

I remember those things were everywhere on campus. Usually in the posession of some Biology or Ecological Studies major.

Apparently they don't make water "taste funny" like plastic bottles. In other words, people that use Nalgene bottles are wusses.

Taste was something I hadn't considered. The mouth of Nalgene's is what has always thrown me-- I don't have a danty little mouth, by any means, but I find them difficult to drink from.

Pretty, though

I always bring my nalgene bottle with me to class--you know, everytime I go to class wearing crampons, ice tools in hand, ready to make basecamp in Con Law.

though prof's never seem to call on me after I've pitched a tent in class :)

Those nalgene bottles do have a wide mouth. That makes them easier to clean and refill.

Never understood the allure of nalgene bottles. Everyone and their brother seems to carry one, though. And the stampede on the bookstore, the day they announced that they had begun to stock nalgene bottles embossed with the name of the school!

Sounds like supernatural justification for obsessive materialism, if you ask me. :)

I think nalgene bottles are the greastest things ever! the wide mouth makes them so easier to crink from. and the clip right onto my back pack. it honestly takes the funny taste out of water, so it lasts all day. being a tap water fan has also helped my love my nalgene bottle!

I think nalgene bottles are the greastest things ever! the wide mouth makes them so easier to crink from. and the clip right onto my back pack. it honestly takes the funny taste out of water, so it lasts all day. being a tap water fan has also helped my love my nalgene bottle!

i just read that these much loved bottles are made by a company that also makes cages for rabbits so they be restrained while being tested on. hmmmm. so much for hippy ethics from a water bottle
to see for yourself just do a google search on nalgene

I caved and bought a nalgene bottle. I couldn't resist -- it had the name of my new law school on it :)

Has any one heard about the chemicals in the plastic that are toxic to your genes and can cause deformaties in your children?

Do you think it's alright to boil water in a nalgene bottle? in college, i am not able to boil things that well...would it work?

I do not think that Nalgene makes the rabbit containment things anymore. I use them to go to the gym, on long trips, and when I am hiking. They take a beating. I agree the mouth is very large and I actually purchased a small mouth for easier drinking. If you are dying for the plastic taste, just buy their bottlecap/straw that fits the wide mouths and you will have it.

Brandon:

Nalgene bottles can hold boiling water. They where designed for that!

As for boiling water in them... you mean in a microwave? I do not see a problem with that either. On the stove? I guess THAT would be a problem :)

Hey...well I love Nalgenes, they can sure take a beating!! I take them to camp every year, and the store in my town says that if they break you can get them replaced for free, they are that strong. So, while I was at camp, we tried to break it by running it over with a truck 3 times, and then whacking it with an axe, it still didn't break!! No wonder everyone loves them! :D

Wow, who doesn't like a Nalgene bottle? I personally like the 16 oz - narrow mouth bottles better. My 32 oz one was impossible to drink out of without having drops of water all over my clothes... But seriously, school water fountains are DISGUSTING (you can taste the iron that comes off of the pipes-therefore making it taste like blood :[)
Who says Nalgene bottles are for wusses? That is the lamest thing I have =ever= heard: just because of the taste? Who *wants* to taste plastic? Honestly, who does? Why does that make you that much cooler?
sigh. If only you nalgene-hating fools will get with the program.

My nalgene broke. i threw it at the floor too many times i guess. i want to take up that offer on a free one. oh yeah.

I don't know how many people know this, but all plastics have these things called plasticizers in them, added to plastics to make them soft and/or pliable. Just recently, and by mistake, these plasticizers have been found to be a catalist for breast cancer. Now, the most commonly used plastic for water bottles and most other food packaging in the No.2 plastic. This No.2 plastic has been shown to have the most plasticizers in them. The reason the FDA and all that have kept the No.2 plastics on the market are because the plasticizers are only released when repeatedly used, causeing the plastics to break down and allowing the plasticizers to get into the consumer. The plastic Nalgene bottles are made out of a plastic (plastic no. 7) and, because they are NOT soft/pliable, they have less plasticizers in the plastic, and they have a less chance of breaking down after repeated use. THAT is why I love my Nalgene bottle. Not only do I backpack, hike and carry either my 1 liter or my 1/2 liter bottle to school, I can get water out of my tap and reuse my bottle with a lessened chance of getting cancer. Plus you know those plastic bottles that you can buy soda and all that crap in? Well, the best use they have found so far for them when you recycle them is to make those plastic grocery bags out of that you see at all your grocery stores. And, the process of making them into those bags is so toxic, that we Americans have found it cheaper and easier to ship most of the bottles over to "Underdeveloped" contries and places like China to melt the plastic down because they don't have to keep their workers in a safe environment. This is (or was) a lovely world we live in. Why we have to go and destroy it is beyond me.

That is all I really wanted to say,
Thanks,
-K Bui
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buying a nalgene once sure beats buying cases of bottled water.