What's in your Nalgene?

Here you go:

duct tape
twine
2 baggies
bandana
6 zipties
3 ziplock bags
dogbone ceramic sharpener
50 m glide
2 bic lighters
whistle
razor blade
super glue
gerber flashlight

knives, photon microlight, tweezers, fresnel lens, and pocket screwdriver are always on my person.

What's in YOUR Nalgene? :D
 
What's in YOUR Nalgene?
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Water. And it's going to stay that way.

In Arizona, it's the one thing I can't do without. And it's the one thing that isn't easy to find. Many people simply don't carry enough. Even "experienced" hikers will often carry just enough to get back to their vehicle, The plan is often to carry enough water to get them to the bottom of the trail, then to walk back with nalgenes empty and water up at the vehicle. This leaves no margin for error or emergencies.

My supplies are carried in my pants or vest pockets, in a butt pack, or somewhere else. I would never consider carrying them INSIDE a nalgene. If I lived somewhere that water was readily available, maybe carrying it empty with some water tabs would make sense.... but not here.
 
My supplies are carried in my pants or vest pockets, in a butt pack, or somewhere else. I would never consider carrying them INSIDE a nalgene.
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Yeah, uh... nobody is suggesting you set out with the contents in the nalgene.

You remove the contents and distribute them amongst your person and fill up your water battle right before you set out on your little adventures. The idea is that it's just a handy place to store stuff in the meantime, so you can just grab it and not worry about if you're forgetting anything.

I suppose you can just as easily put the stuff in a seperate bag and store it with the nalgene bottle when you're not using them, but storing it inside works just as well and takes up less room.
 
the beauty of having a 'nalgene kit' is that with the kit contents loaded & lid screwed up it's air and water-tight. plus it'll most likely float if you do get wet yourself. it would kick a$$ for rafting or kayaking trips.
 
Lightweight Nalgene bag? Another reason to learn net making.
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Doc
 
Working on the assumption that it is a wide mouth, round one liter, not the rectangular one or a narrow neck:

-A webbing carrier similar to the one made by Cohglans, constructed from some velcro onewrap, an 8-10' length of 2" tubular nylon webbing, a double adjust side release buckle and two triglides. (If not allowed, then the Cohglans abomination and cross my fingers)
-45 gallon contractors bag, folded and stuffed in a sock along with the sock's twin and attached to the webbing strap by ranger bands to serve as a shoulder pad
-Paracord, slipped INSIDE the webbing if allowed to use the tubular webbing.

-Bottom of a coffee can, cut off with a side-cut can openner (lid for the cup)
-Olicamp bottle cup over the bottom.
-Nuwick 44 in the bottom of the cup.

-The bottle.

In the bottle:
-A Ritter PSP and an AMK Pocket Medic, both removed from thier respective pouches, less the mirror, aluminum foil, frensel lens and the duct tape.
-A bottle of PA
-Photon or similar
-Vic Huntsman SAK
-hotspark or similiar
-mini bic with a zip tie under the plunger
-duct tape wrapped around the bottle (replaces what is lost from the PSK)
-5 or 6 tinder quiks
-a spool of waxed dental floss
-6 zipties
-two 20s, two fives, five ones and some quarters
-two small peices of aluminum that are notched to form an X when connected- stand for over the candle, to rest the cup on
-A small drawstring bag similiar to what the AMK Heatsheet Bivy comes in but a little larger, to hold contents of kit when out of bottle.

-A minibinier with a couple of spare split rings, clipped to the cover strap, to attach the hot spark, Photon and whistle to the SAK after the kit gets opened, and to anchor it in the car to an unused seatbelt, back of the passenger headrest or similiar point.


Alternatively, if we are allowed pouches....
Use the same carrier as described above.
Delete the cup and coffee can bottom.
Pack everything currently in the bottle and the Nuwick in a French milsurp mess kit, less the inner tin along with a tube of matches and a large peice of HD aluminum foil. Pad with a bandana to prevent rattling.
Attach a SpecOps X-6 pouch (or similiar) to the carrier, put the mess kit in pouch
Use the rectangular Nalgene 2L, polycarb, widemouth lab bottle filled with water.
 
nemoaz said:
Water. And it's going to stay that way. .....

In Arizona, it's the one thing I can't do without. .....
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Makes sense, but a survival kit implies you have other gear-- or lost it. This is the backup. I agree that you should have more than enough water to cover the planned duration of a hike.
 
I agree with nemoaz,

I *do* carry a psk, which does include a collapsible canteen, but I've always got two nalgenes with water in them and don't really see the need to keep my psk inside another...

I also live in a place where the summer temps are a bit on the wrong side of triple digits, though.

So, main ingredients in my kit that I'm not seeing in others-

gauze
medical tape
iodine

The first two are self explanatory and a lot handier than bandaids. Iodine is multi use, for wounds and water purification if so needed.

I also carry a bit of powdered vitamin C (ascorbic acid) since it makes the water taste better should you need to purify it, and it's a pretty handy thing to have in stress conditions.
 
Iodine is a good catch, thanks! I'll add that. I'm kind of bummed that of 30 posts, there are only 2 or 3 listing contents. Maybe not too many people use this type of psk...
 
I just now starting building one of these kits myself.
So far my very incomplete (inside the nalgene) kit is
Fire-starting gear-
cotton balls/PJ in film cannister, couple of Bic lighters, Swedish firesteel, matches in film cannister.

Knives Vic Huntsman and Gerber Clutch.

Small ziplock full of bandaids, polysporin, aspirins, 2 or three sewing needles and thread/fishing line, couple of small razor blades (in a matchbox).

Emergency whistle, small wrist compass.Couple of garbage bags.

Thats just from stuff i have on hand.

I'm figuring maybe replace the bics with one of those mini-peanut lighters. they work great and are inexpensive.

I am also thinking about adding A mini led light, magnifying lens, signaling mirror, para-cord, duct-tape,mini-fishing kit and more first aid stuff. I also want a mini sharpener/sharpening stone of some kind.

I have one of those compact survival blankets that i may add but that takes up a bit of space and i have my doubts about their actual usefulness.

I also may replace the film cannister full of matches with one of the orange plastic waterproof coghlans containers. I can fit about 32 shortened kitchen matches in it.

Maybe also some water treatment tabs would be a good idea.

Maybe also some snare wire.

I'm sure i'm missing lots from my preliminary list but i just started, "its a work in progress".lol.

But Dalew i'm sure a lot more forumites will post more good ideas here, Give it time.
:)
 
Sodak, I've moved my PSK and a few odds and ends into a Nalgene for when I'm going to be on the water, but I generally just tin them. If I was going to be kayaking or rafting, I'd figure out a way to tether one to me, but for a kit that I'm going to give to someone and they are going to toss it in the trunk of their car these really do make a lot of sense.
 
Okay, turns out most of this will fit in a Nalgene or can be tied on the carrier bag....

I still don't *keep* it in there, but the waterproofness and having an extra third liter of water...... I'll think about it.

Flint
a small bit of tinder
a bic
Artificial sinew (or sail repair thread, pretty much the same thing.)
2 sail needles (much much better than anything you can find in a sewing store.
2 8 penny nails (call them awls if you want, they are filed a bit and that's mostly what they get used for, though I've used them as fids, too)

benadryl
epinephrine tablets

alcohol pads (only 4, used as wetnaps for getting grit out of wounds before iodining and bandaging)

iodine (used for first aid and to purify water, be careful of additives and search online a bit about how to purify water with it, pretty much the bomb if you have 2 water bottles.)

gauze
tape
4 butterflies

SAK "outrider" - locking blade, long saw blade, scissors, corkscrew AND phillips head, bottle and can openers, awl and package carrier. Pretty much the ultimate in my mind as far as an SAK type knife goes. wish it had a pen

a puukko (doesn't quite fit in the bottle, but I carry one most of the time anyway)

2 cheapie LED lights, one is red and has a momentary or sticky on setting, the other is a keychaind squeezie.


some vitamin C powder
2 hot cocoa packets

2 emergency blankets- they do work, but buy one as a destruction test and play with it, sleep in it, rig a leanto with it, learn it.

mil surplus wool liner gloves (yes, *in* the psk. handy for a lot of reasons, small and light)

small steel honing rod.

plenty of paracord, at least 3 x 20 ft. but I often have scraps in the kitbag.

2 tiny nylon stuff bags.

small signal mirror

(not trying to get them into a nalgene: 2 big black garbage bags, 3 small produce bags, 1 gallon sized ziplock bag, a few hair ties. snake bite kit.)

that's most of it. I'm leaving the collapsible canteen off the nalgene list, but I still don't know if I'll ever carry gear inside one. I *do* use a lot of my psk on a near daily basis and getting stuff in and out of the bottle seems a bit of a drag.

not worried about the contest bit, I just figured I'd add more of my list of contents to a post since I have some idiosyncratic stuff.
 
For those participating, there's a replacement lid for the wide mouth nalgene that has a compass built in. Bought one, it works fine, no need for a compass inside the kit.

Since I carry my kit distributed, the primary use I see for Nalgene kits is to have a waterproof kit storage container. Matches and other stuff that shouldn't get wet goes into the kit until you need the bottle for important stuff like water.
 
Here's my contribution to the Nalgene kit contest:

The first shot shows the assembled kit: a one liter Nalgene scored new from a garage sale for $0.50, wrapped in 23' of orange 550 paracord, and seated in a sling made for the 40oz Kleen Kanteen, which fits the Nalgene like a glove.

The other shot shows the contents of the kit:

Adventure Medical mylar bag (orange package)
2 single-edge razor blades in clear shipping tape
Esbit fuel tablet in clear shipping tape (they stink)
First aid supplies in sandwich baggie
4 band aids
Alcohol wipe (fire starter too)
Immodium capsules in foil wrapper
Motrin capsules in foil wrapper
Triple antibiotic
Hydrocoritzone cream
Moleskin
2 "trick" birthday candles-- the kind you can't blow out
Mini Bic butane lighter with safety pin lanyard mount
BCB wire saw with paracord handles
Mini fishing kit with small roll leader, small snelled hooks on leaders and a few split shot
Small solid core roll duct tape
Mini Sharpie marker
Small vial sunscreen
Small vial bug repellent
Hotel give-away sewing kit
12' snare wire
20' small braided nylon seine twine
10 pieces hard candy
Reflective lanyard with core items:
Backpackinglight.com mini firesteel and striker
Victorinox Stayglow Classic knife
Tinder Quick tabs in spy capsule
Inova mico LED light
ACR whistle
Signal mirror with clear tape protective cover
25' 12lb test fishing line
Eze-lap diamond sharpener
8 Katadyn Micropur chlorine dioxide water treatment tablets (treats 2 gallons)

24 ounces total weight. That's it!
 

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Hello All,
Is it too late to join this comp? I started working on my PSK: this is the sling I created to carry the Nalgene
  • Mil-spec tubular webbing
  • Custom sewn around double pass mountaineering buckle
  • Sewn portion wrapped in 550 coyote tan cord

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More ideas to come....
 
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