pee in a bottle

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xylaria

Bushcrafter (boy, I've got a lot to say!)
Haha! Any ladies on here actually tried any of the things on the market to aid us in these situations? a review would be welcome :)

I'm thinking the Spike Milligan hosepipe set-up coupled with a "she-wee" (if they work), could be a real saviour on a freezing, rainy, hungover morning! :D

It wouldn't work in hammock, you have go standing up with she-wee.
It takes alot of practice to pee standing up, it is totally unnatural. I found Iost the skill of using very quickly and it was uncomfy to use. The logistics of peeing upright is nightmare, there is all these hazards like wind direction, and how nonchalantly you can look at rock which us girlies should never have to think about.
 

beachlover

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Aug 28, 2004
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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. ;)

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WOW! I want one of those. I could use it as a P bottle, hot water bottle and a priest for game. Now tell me that isn't multitasking?
 

firecrest

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Mar 16, 2008
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It wouldn't work in hammock, you have go standing up with she-wee.
It takes alot of practice to pee standing up, it is totally unnatural. I found Iost the skill of using very quickly and it was uncomfy to use. The logistics of peeing upright is nightmare, there is all these hazards like wind direction, and how nonchalantly you can look at rock which us girlies should never have to think about.

And sometimes it just goes in whatever direction it choses! What the heck causes that?!!
 
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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. ;)

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Cant go wrong with these. However the "ubisex happy pee" on THIS site is what I'm thinking of getting
 
Aug 17, 2008
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Five pages, and no-one has mentioned one of the major hazards, apart from cold, of leaving tent/hammock/maggot whilst outdoors - the wind. Even a light breeze can be the cause of major dramas for the half-asleep/half-****** urinator.

An Oasis bottle for me every time.
 

rivermom

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Jan 19, 2008
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Gee, lads, thanks for the best laugh I have had this week. And do any of you gentlemen wash your hands when you get up the next morning?
Mind you, I have always envied you guys when it comes to nocturnal piddling in the great outdoors. I'm telling you, if there is only one nettle in a woodland, I manage to find it.
 

Bongo Matt

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Apr 18, 2009
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I can admit to relieving myself into the odd plastic bottle, the first time was at a festival in eastern europe where the portaloo bogs were so rancid that you could actually see the plastic melting, so I took to the confines of my tent and filled them up, didnt have to walk miles and queue like everybody else either, if you aim right and allow a little bit of space for the air to escape being replaced by the liquid (dont ask how I found that one out but back pressure with p##s is bad:eek:) then all is fine and dandy.

Another experience was a little bit more difficult, this bloke in Bolivia sold me and some friends a bus ticket for a 22 hour trip, on the foto it looked great with reclining chairs and toilet shiny gleaming coach, so we got the beers in etc for the journey. When it turned up it was a rickety heap of junk and when we sat in our broken chairs we realised no toilet either, so we had to covertly replace the beer in the cans with the other liquid and pour it out the window as the driver was not stopping for anything. It was a very bumpy ride, and my German friend, unfortunatly ended up covered in.....and to make it worse, he put his food on the floor under his feet:rolleyes:

Have never tried it in my hammock though, got one of those green zip up ones, usually crawl out, stumble off, freeze, stumble back and return to the warmth of the sleeping back, but I suppose hugging a bottle of wee might have some benefits if its really cold!:lmao:
 

Bravo4

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Apr 14, 2009
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Bravo4, I live just south of the Arctic watershed.......New Mexico...hot yes...cold not hardly :)

Hi tsitenha, I missed your reply earlier here on the great pee bottle debate. Actually,,,New Mexico has mountains as high as 13,000 feet above sea level with the treeline being roughly 11,000ft in the northern portion of the state. So, same environment as the far north at sea level and just as cold in the winter here, up in the mountains at least. It's all about the elevation, not the latitude.

Down south it is the hot desert most people imagine NM to be, but still there are ski areas as far south as Cloudcroft NM thanks to the Sacramento Mountains. As you head north towards Colorado you start gaining elevation. Albuquerque sits at 5,000feet, which is roughly the same elevation as most of the Colorado Plateau. It snows in Albuquerque but doesn't stay on the ground more than a couple of days. I live in Santa Fe which is at 7,000 ft.and it is much cooler here than most people think. Outside of town we’ve got the Sangre De Cristo Mountains which are the geological “tail end” of the Rocky Mountains. Part of this range is known as the Pecos Wilderness, where I sometimes camp up high during winter, just below the treeline. I was raised in Maine; it can be very cold in New Mexico, bring a jacket.

We also get some pretty strong winds, and there lies the real danger to exposed flesh in sub-freezing temps and high altitudes. I’m not THAT lazy, you have my word. It’s just that falling makes me nervous, and possible frostnip, down there…eeee. It also has to do with the ridiculous amount of time required to get fully dressed. No wind, no problem. Blowing 60mph, bottle time. Standing in strong winds, on the side of a mountain at night is simply not the safest place to be hanging around with your fly undone. I do agree that a pee bottle is absolutely nasty. I used to scoff at the idea myself and then one night I had to readjust my perspective a little bit. Peeing in a bottle was suddenly no big deal. I've had a few good spankings round here and been near-hypothermic more often than I'd care to admit. It is very possible to freeze to death in New Mexico, believe it,,, or not.

I’ve lived out here for 15 years and it’s a truly amazing place. There is ALOT of Public land, mostly “useless” mountains; lots of deserts, ghost towns, hunting, fishing, skiing, white water rivers, you name it. Most folks imagine the whole state is a hot, dusty, uninviting sort of landscape and that is usually fine with me. Everybody here(BCUK) seems pretty cool and so I thought it might be safe to share this info on New Mexico, here in this thread where no one will look for it. The invite was for real, my place is a little small, but that’s what the Pecos is for. Seriously, anybody who might be interested in travelling out this way and looking for info, just let me know. Spring thru Fall is probably a better time to get outdoors here. The southern part of the state is nicest Fall thru Spring.

A few New Mexico Links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sangre_de_Cristo_Mountains
http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin/findweather/getForecast?query=87501
http://www.newmexico.org/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexico

For a taste of Northern New Mexico culture and a really good read, try “The Milagro Beanfield War” by John Nichols.
http://www.amazon.com/Milagro-Beanfield-War-Novel/dp/0805063749

Oh, and the food is what keeps me here, for I have become addicted to green chile.
http://www.zianet.com/focus/chile.htm

You may have seen a little of New Mex already, many films have been shot here. "The Missing" is one that comes to mind. Have a look-see, the film is not bad and the landscape is all New Mex.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338188/

Best Wishes,
B4
 

Bravo4

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Apr 14, 2009
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And if the bottle thing is too much for you, consider this: If you become injured in the mountains and SAR comes to save you and hike you out, they will put you in a plastic sleeping bag, followed by a real sleeping bag. You will be strapped down onto a stretcher and no matter how hard you plead, you are NOT getting out of that bag or off that stretcher until you are off the mountain. They are going to tell you, "Just go in the bag". One more reason to mind your step while visiting the high country.
 

Elines

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Oct 4, 2008
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As regards peeing in a bottle whilst in a hammock - I asked about this a few months ago and decided a bottle was the way to go:lmao: . Let's put it this way - after you have missed once it will be quite some time before you try again - and then very carefully.
 

Bravo4

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Apr 14, 2009
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New Mexico, USA
now the bottle in a hammock thing, I just don't know. To clarify what nobody really wants to know, I'm outta my bag, still in the tent, but in case of inaccurate aiming technique, I'm outta my bag. In a hammock, really? I've got to figure out the smileys here cause I am bustin' a gut
 

John Fenna

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Oct 7, 2006
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Anyone who has a problem peeing accurately into a bottle while in a sleeping bag/hammock combination meerly lacks practice.
I can recommend spending several days in hospital on a combination of strong pain-killers (which destroy the ability to co-ordinate enough to brush your teeth, never mind walk to the loos) plus strong diuretics (to flush out kidney stones).
After 2 or 3 sessions of this training you will find the act of peeing into a nalgene bottle while half asleep, - in a sleeping bag, in a hamock, in a gale - remembering to put the lid on and returning it to its storage area - WITHOUT SPILING A DROP - so simple as to be described as a piece of ....well...the obvious realy......
 

Docherty

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May 11, 2010
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Ah, the Robinson squash portable toilet system! Mastered this technique at Reading Festival a few years back... at the risk of oversharing (if that's even possible on this thread anymore) I wee in a bottle when I'm at home as well, urines chock full of nitrogen that's great for the compost heap.
 

bmartin1uk

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May 4, 2010
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My girlfriend took P-Mates when we went travelling. 2 o'clock toilet stops in India (stood at the side of the road peeing like a guy), overnight sleeper buses in Thailand (into a bottle, in the dark, in 3 feet of headroom), festival camping and much more. I don't think she'd manage it from a hammock though!
I think i'd prefer to at least swing my legs out of the hammock. Worse case scenario, wet feet ;o)
 

avalon

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May 31, 2007
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Hasn't anyone considered doing a Bear Grills and just drinking it. You could just stand on your head and aim, it would save on the inconvenience of carrying a bulky bottle.
 

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