Backpacking with waterbottles

[Bill O]

I recently switched from the old Nalgene bottles to SIGG stainless bottles, which has been fine until I dropped a full metal bottle in my garage yesterday. Huge dent. Sure, it's only cosmetic, but since I spent like $25 at EMS on the damn thing, I'm a little bummed. My trusty old Nalgene would have bounced.

Those are battle scars. I bought a Sigg in Switzerland before they hit it big over here and traveled around the world with it. Lots of dents and chips. I think stalagmites were growing on the inside by the time I trashed it. I remember running to catch the train to New York one day and it fell out of my bag and rolled onto the tracks. I was able to make a daring rescue the next day.

In college we dropped a Nalgene four floors (empty) onto a linoleum floor. It bounced and didn't break. Then we filled it up with water and dropped it four feet....broke instantly.

[Patrad Fischroy]

My only problem with a Sigg bottle was the time I left it out in the garage during the winter with a full load of water inside.

Have you ever seen aluminum split?
:-(

That is a little more than a battle scar...

[Bill O]

Have you ever seen aluminum split?
:-(

That is a little more than a battle scar...

Sounds like a ski lift tower.

[Patrad Fischroy]

Was that what happened at Whistler? I haven't been following that too much