pee in a bottle

[Jared]

Funnily enough, part of the kit issued to Combat Engineer Tractor Operators was a large oval rubber bladder with a steel cup at the top and a valve at the bottom. In the case of operating in an NBC (or ABC for our european comrades) environment it was used as a pee bottle. The fact that you got to share it with your crewmate was a bit horrible though! I never needed to use one though, as I didn't take training to such extremes!

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Was stuck in hospital a month ago, and rigged up to a pump and monitors for a few days, so had to bottle it. 5AM is a bad time to find out your bladder can hold more than the bottles they give you, is all I will say.

 

[rapidboy]

I get up, is it just me or is it not one of lifes simple pleasures to have a pee in the great outdoors ?

 

[Dougster]

I get up, is it just me or is it not one of lifes simple pleasures to have a pee in the great outdoors ?

Not when it's cold and the doss bag warm. I still get up and look at the stars but it just ain't fun....

 

[Magentus]

The guy I support at work has a flat bottomed bottle with an inverted cone that you pee in and it won't spill or leak back out again. It'll hold a litre but is pretty large and costs, wait for it............£35.00! Someone's making a lot of money from a vunerable group of people. Anyway, for anyone interested, you can get them from most mobility aid shops.

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[Bravo4]

I get up, is it just me or is it not one of lifes simple pleasures to have a pee in the great outdoors ?

You bet. But, for serious cold, high altitude winter trips, a pee bottle is no joke. You can't just step out into the night and go. It can be very dry up high in winter and your body loses moisture much faster than in a humid environment. You have to drink alot of fluids, otherwise, being in a dehydrated state makes you more apt to be cold during the night. And like with alcohol, being dehydrated means you are more vunerable to cold temps, and unfun things like frostbite.

 

[Native Nathan]

I have sort of a similar system.....

A bit of background info I use a Tarp, a Hammock & a Sleeping Bag.

I Pee in a bottle if nature calls in the dead of night And i use it as a hotwaterbottle, but i climb out of my sleeping bag and hammock, 1 little slip and it would be a cold night for me.

So I would rather spend a minite in the cold while i spend a penny, then get lazy, slip and have a soaking wet sleeping bag.

and as a bonus i have a hotwater bottle to keep me warm

I read somewhere the canadian army teaches their sodiers to do this and place it next to their feet......

 

[tsitenha]

Get up and go for a pee in a designated spot (latrine).

You'll have enough of peeing in a bottle (bladder) when your old and incontinent. So just enjoy the ritual now when you have a choice.

 

[stevec038]

Please note. Steven Andrews has chosen the correct color for his p**s bottle---or does it need washing. I carry a wide mouth bottle myself just for the same purpose. Put adhesive tape around it so I could "feel" that it was the correct bottle. Fun topic.

 

[Bravo4]

Get up and go for a pee in a designated spot (latrine).

You'll have enough of peeing in a bottle (bladder) when your old and incontinent. So just enjoy the ritual now when you have a choice.

Come on out west next winter, everyone is invited, we'll all head up to the edge of the treeline and spend a couple of nights. If after this, anyone who still feels pee bottles are for inconts, well then beers are on me. Sometimes a bottle IS the designated spot. It's all about the conditions.

By far most of my nights out are done bottle-free, pee-bottle free anyway. Getting up in the middle of the night and looking around have led to all sorts of interesting encounters. Some nights I don't get back to sleep because there is so much going on, so much to take in. Next day requires a siesta, and hammocks are pretty good for this.

 

[scallywag]

If you need to wee during the night there's obviously something wrong with your bladder
And using the bottle is just disguisting.

 

[Tadpole]

If you need to wee during the night there's obviously something wrong with your bladder
And using the bottle is just disguisting.

It is dependent entirely on your age, and how much you have drank.
Getting up in the middle of the night is a fact of life for most men over 40. camping trip or no camping trip

 

[scallywag]

It is dependent entirely on your age, and how much you have drank.
Getting up in the middle of the night is a fact of life for most men over 40. camping trip or no camping trip

We are getting grosser and grosser with age. GROSS!!

 

[Magentus]

We are getting grosser and grosser with age. GROSS!!

I agree!

LOL!

As a 41 year old, I find the bladder prospect less scary than the carpet of hair swiftly making its way out of my nose, eyebrows and ears. It's as if my body wants to deprive me of 3 of my senses. 3 of the best too!

 

[The Lord Poncho]

Really! Isn't this going a bit far?! How long and how much hassle is it to swing your legs out of your hammock into a pair of boots and go for a short wander!

That said, i tend to find an ortlieb water bag (1l i think) perfect for the task- it rolls up small in your bergen when you don't need it, and has a wide mouth. Which is important, as I’m led to believe 80% of women prefer girth to length. Thus, I’m supposing a quick flash of the size of cap of your pee bottle to an impressionable young woman is guaranteed to get results.

I've also had the pleasure of using a sheet of cling film and a sandwich bag to pass the other form of bodily waste into (and within a covered 2m x 2m hole underground shared with at least two other blokes), this is rather less fun for your mates than it is for you.

 

[featherstick]

Ranulph Fiennes talks of being halfway across Antarctica and breaking his thermos flask - vital for keeping energy levels up while pulling his sledge across the ice sheet. He and his companion had no choice - their last two bottles did double duty as pee bottles at night, flasks during the day.

I pee in a bottle all the time - takes me 2 days to fill a 3lt Robinsons squash bidon. Then it all goes up to the allotment for the compost heap.

 

[forestwalker]

I've considered bottle systems on winter trips. Somewhere around -35 -- -40 C you really, really do not want to get out of a warm sleeping bag. OTOH, the price of failure would be rather high, so I've never bothered playing with them. And standing outside at -40 C, under a clear sky, the northern lights going full blast and the milky way across the sky as if a frost gigant had just sneezed (I remember other descriptions used while in the military, but those were not as romatic), wearing just boots, wool undies and a baclava, sorry: balaclava on your head is memories to treasure.

But there is one advantage of floorless tents if the weather turns bad; you do not want to go out in a mountain blizzard unless you have to.

Some military people have to do the bottle thing at times, but most discreet wild camping is not quite at that level of circumspection.

 

[tsitenha]

Bravo4, I live just south of the Arctic watershed.......New Mexico...hot yes...cold not hardly

 

[Hoodoo]

Must not be too many large game hunters here. Carrying a pee bottle is SOP here, not only because it's convenient, but it reduces the amount of scent you spread around, especially while hunting from a stand.

This one is hard to confuse with a water bottle.

 

[firecrest]

a thread about peeing and it ends up four pages long as everybody wants to boast about their method. Typical!!
Those blue crystals and that "invisable urinal sheath" are worrying close to "nappy". I think some men secretly wish they never left babyhood, its all been too much hassle!

 

[Magentus]

It's a pissing contest.