Nalgene Bottle

Gear Review: Nalgene Bottle

 

Pros:  Holds a full 32oz. of water, comes in all the great Nalgene colors, reasonably durable, light weight, low cost, water purifier screws to the top, the new plastic no longer causes cancer.

Cons:  The cancer free plastic is not nearly as durable as the old lexan. 

 

Personal Thoughts:  For some reason when they came out with that new info that said the Nalgene bottles could cause cancer or something like that everyone got rid of their storied sticker covered bottles and switched to trendy metal ones.  (I am not pointing fingers I was one of them) However Nalgene is back and those metal water bottle companies had better be ware. 

So why do I like Nalgene better than the metal ones besides the fact that they come in tons of cool colors, are the prominate place to put stickers from all of your adventures, actually hold a full 32oz. of water, and work so well with purification systems? 

Consider the durability, I will admit that the new plastic is no longer capable of being chucked over every cliff and run over by 15 passenger vans, but then again we only did that for fun anyway.  The plastic is not going to crack if you drop it from mouth height and it is defiantly going to be ok if it slips out of your pack and rolls down the mountain.  Metal ones not so much.  Sure they don’t break but they do dent.  I had my primus one for less than a week and dropped it on a rock and it got a nice dent in the side.  Nalgenes don’t do that. 

Then there is the fact that they are now cancer free.  For what its worth you no longer have to worry about growing a third leg if you drink from the new “every day” (that is what they all say on the side for some reason) Nalgene.

Nalgene has said high adventure for a long time and now it says it again in a cancer free form, that still (and most importantly) makes all of those cool destination and gear stickers look really really good!

So go out and get your self one or two of the new cancer free (have I said that enough to ease your doubts) Nalgenes and reunite with an old lost love.