Pee Bottle and Backpacker Magazine (Marc h)

“I'm going as I type this!”

“ewwwwwwwww!

Hey, did you have asparagus last night?”

“Ice Tea, you have a buddy who has a pee bottle by his computer? What kind of dirty funksters do you hang out w/ dolly? I hope I am never hardcore enough to need a pee bottle. When I was pregnant I had to pee every 13 seconds or so, round the clock. I guess if I ever pack while preg. I might need one.”

“Some practical advice for the gals ”

“Why does it hurt when I pee?
Why does it hurt when I pee?
I don't want no doctor
To stick no needle in me
Why does it hurt when I pee?
I got it from the toilet seat
I got it from the toilet seat
It jumped right up
'N grabbed my meat
Got it from the toilet seat

My balls feel like a pair of maracas
My balls feel like a pair of maracas
Oh God I probably got the
Gon-o-ka-ka-khackus!
My balls feel like a pair of maracas
Ai-ee-ai-ee-ahhhh!
Why does it
Why does it
Why does it
Why does it hurt . . . when . . . I
Peeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee?

FZ”

“I do not subscribe to backpacker mag. and will never subscribe to that mag again.... I met some of there Fine people at trail daze in Va they were nasty, crude, rude people they have lost me forever and anyone else i can talk into droping them. Hooked on outdoors was a much better mag with much nicer people.”

“subscribe to backbacker and just started the pee bottle. my wife uses the "pisser" its a thing that allows woment to write in the snow and use the pee bottle. its actually called a "freshette"...see campmor catalog. really works...on the trail too. she doesnt have to remove her pack. also take it to nfl games. take the ole bottle and she doesnt have to wait in long port-o-let lines etc.”

“Flyguy6x, that is hilarious! I am definitely going to try and master that one. I went to grade school w/ a girl who could pee standing. I was shocked and amazed. She could beat everyone's (even the boys) as@.”

“I figured you've been practicing this afternoon! Just kidding! simmer down!!!
sete!”

“No, I don't really do anything experiment at the office.”

“The word is, you don't do ANYTHING in the office.

MooooHaaaahaaaa”

“Oh, I meant experimental. Bacpac, could you please get off my back about it. I do what my boss wants and no more. He doesn't like "change" and since he pays for all this free net and doesn't know how to use it, I figure I should.”

“Gave up backpacker when there wasn't anything more in it I could learn....
It's like outgrowing Cosmopolitan.

Except for new gear, of course.

AHEM...

I can't afford to travel outside the High Sierras, so outa' state travel I don't care much about.
Maybe when I retire with an RV.

Moveable Feast I can do on my own. Nothing new there.

Animalia.....
Got enough personal observations in my own neck of the woods. What will I do with how to track the wily moose?

Pee bottle?

Novel.

Doesn't work for chicks.

Cooking pot with a diameter of between six and eight inches, depth of three to four inches....perfect.

Do not use this method unless your aim is true and you don't mind using this pose in front of close friends.

Less than 3.5 feet of head room for this manuver is less than ideal if you are taller than 4.5 feet.”

“.....
Standing on your knees, grasp pot between your thighs...
steady with right or left hand.

Clear?”

“Didn't Homer Simpson once have a barcolounger with a built-in toilet? Sounds like Ice Tea's friend could use one of those!

8-)”

“Where is sarabelle ?

I would like to hear her thoughts on this subject”

“mel, I can manage with a wide mouth nalgene (I wouldn't want that caught on video though LOL!) I hate getting out of the tent in the middle of the night when it's raining and or cold.”

“I posted a web site here once on how a woman could pee standing up. It seems doable. How many ladies have tried and how many never gave it a chance?”

“Thanks to the wonderful web direction provided by flyguy6x, I might have to give it a whiz. (no pun intended . . . hehehe)”

“I do a lot of winter camping. I've found that I get frozen in the time it takes to get dressed, go out and whizz, and then undress, etc. If you just run out nekked and get it over with and quick jump back in the warm bag it's lots less uncomfortable.”

“Pissing is just something I do. It isn't something I dwell on.

Unless I am writing my girlfriend's name in the snow.”

“Bacpac, that must really endear you to her.”

“flyguy that was great. Nailed me right on the funny bone and now I hurt from laughing.

I'm with Le Subtil, I don't care how cold it is I just get out there and get it over with.

I quit backpacker years ago. Took it again for two years and the subscription just ran out and I said good riddance. Anything you want to know is available on the net.”

“No pee bottle for me! Like Nike...JUST DO IT!

I don't mind Backpacker Mag at all. It still has benefits to me. I get to see new gear that the local outfitter doesn't carry, places to hike I've never heard of (I have an Excel spreadsheet of trails in my surrounding area and update it with every mag), great pics of places I'll never see, and for about $10 a year the subscription cost is a drop in the bucket as far as "wasting money"...he!! I could've bought 3 subscriptions with the money I spent on beer last night! All in all...I still dig it!”

“Bacpacker mag's section "weekend wilderness" is pretty informative.

Regarding pee-bottles...lately there have been a few threads about pee-bottles/poop storage in a bear canister. Which begs the question, What is this crazy fascination with storing your own excrement?”

“markar, That didn't impress her much, but when I let her write her name in the snow it was like the most fun she ever had.

It was good for me too.”

“Well this is all a bit more than I care to know about most of you. I find if you hike hard and sweat like mad, then take care of business a few times before turning in, you can avoid the nocturnal nature call. Or maybe that is the benefit of a 5 gallon bladder developed over the years driving all over Wyoming while tending to a seriouis soda habit.”

“BP....

I went to check out that site you listed and it was pretty informative.

I even considered learning the tecnique, but I was just too lazy.

It's a neat trick, and a real must if you travel in third world contries where standing up to pee is almost a given...

I've faced some of those open holes with footprints on either side in public restrooms in Africa...

I don't like getting my feet wet...

Too bad I didn't know about that site back then!

Now, the pot works cause my aim isn't as good as Pamsters.

Girl?

How DO you DO that?!”

“hey mel, how do you like the esbit? Ingquiring minds want to know.”

“Practice mel, practice! Actually, I did it alot as a kid. We made many road trips between NY and NC and my dad didn't believe in stopping.

I had completely forgotten about using a bottle (I guess like most childhood traumas we push it to our subconcious, LOL) until that article showed up in Backpacker. I thought, I can do that and make my 2 am potty runs much easier.

Ldhiker, I envy your 5 gal. bladder!”

“My theory is that if I don't get up to pee in the nite I didn't taking good advantage of the water source I was camping near. I try to drink as much water as I can in the morning and evening. This allows me to carry less water during the day without fear of dehydration or detouring off a ridge to a water source at lunch. A 1/2 gallon of water weighs close to four pounds.

One warning; on the Zeleski ECT trip I came within a 1/4 inch of filling a 22oz. pee bottle. As you can imagine I got pretty nervous when I reached the 3/4 mark and was still 'going' strong.

I've also fallen pray to the pee bottle contortion cramps. NO fun. Funny when looking back on it though.

In the winter once I'm in my tent for the nite I hate getting out again so the pee bottle is my answer.

I was turned on to the pee bottle about five years ago when a senior aged friend of mine brought one on a summer trip. When I asked him about it he said that at his age he was gonna get up to pee atleast three times in a nite so the bottle was his answer. Of course he had to reach way out and dump it between uses.”

“a classic thread on the subject.”

“hahahahaha!!! that is about the funniest thread ever! i don't even know where to start...”

“"The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked.
'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'"


Lewis Carroll”

“I had to go to the "head" after reading this "thread". ;)”

“Oh my!!! The mother lode.”

“the Lady J. Now you too can use a pee bottle safely and comfortably.

I just got a 16 oz nalgene bottle to use...I'm tired of gettin out of the tent at 3am.”