Bottle - Appalachian Trail

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#1

Has anyone used a pee bottle? Let me explain. You’re in the shelter and your’re about to piss yourself. So, you pee into a bottle instead. I tried this over the weekend at an Appalachian Trail shelter. Let me tell you, I never felt so good pissing into a bottle in my life.

I was on my knees with the bag half way open. They guy next to me kept giving me strange looks. The pee held nice and warm all night long in my bag.

The next morning I politely enptied the bottle onto the exterior campfire ring. I’m assuming people thought I was pouring out some leamonaid flavored Power-Aid.

I was on the trail later when I noticed I wasn’t feeling so great. I wasn’t sure what it could be, until I noticed I had been drinking from my pee bottle.

Ganj

#2

i didn’t use one on my thru hike. it’s not easy for a female to pee into a bottle. i also don’t like to pee infront of others because sometimes i fart. girls don’t like to let guys know we do that.

zama

#3

WTF have you been smokin’? I haven’t heard so much rambeling since Trail Days 2006 at the Drum Circle discussin’ LK’s film makin’. :pimp

Sage

#4

Urination, also called micturition or pikaene, is the process of disposing urine from the urinary bladder through the urethra to the outside of the body. The process of urination is usually under voluntary control. When control over urination is lost or absent, this is called urinary incontinence. Urinary retention refers to the inability to urinate. It is usually a shade of yellow, due to the color of bodily wastes disposed through urination. However, with a high concentration of water in the urine, it can become almost clear. Likewise, if an individual does not drink enough water, he could theoretically urinate a dark yellow, almost brown color.

maw-ee

#5

I think him saying he drank from the pee bottle is what everyone is missing. HE DRANK OUT OF IT! Thant’s some nasty shiz-nit. What were you thinking?

:cheers

zach attack

#6

I had been feeling light headed and dizzly. My head was hurting for hours when I discovered I’d been drinking from the pee bottle. Once I noticed what had happened I puked on the side of the trail everywhere. I then felt better. What’s kinda questionable is that I rinsed out the bottle and kept on drinking from it.

Ganj

#7

It has been suggested that when a person is in desert survival or surrounded by salt water and devoid of drinking water that the person must resort to drinking his own urine if it is the only liquid available. This technique has been said to extend life from one to two extra days.

GND

#8

So you kept on using the bottle to drink out of? Bro, are you sick?

Sage

#9

In an attempt to find a lighter load I’ve thought about doing the same Ganj.

BW

#10

What is wrong with you people?

Tea Leaf

#11

I knew a number of hikers that peed in the bottle at night, rinsed it out and used it for drinking in the day. Never heard of any of them getting sick.

Hammock Hanger

#12

Pee bottles are a life saver on a cold night. A bit too difficult now that I use a hammock. However, it is sterile, unless one is carrying an infection. Shouldn’t be so bad if the bottle is well rinsed. There are no oils to cling to the container. Salts wash out. Come on … Besides, if one uses a pee bottle it is usually quite different from the one intentionally used for drinking. Zip locks are very easy. Great to see you this weekend HH.

Moonbeam

#13

As funny as the above posts under “Ganj” might be. I swear I didn’t post this nor have I intentionally drank my own urine. And if I did do this, I wouldn’t bring up my strange fetishes on a public forum.

Ganj

#14

Ganj: I did not believe for a second that the orginal post was from the Ganj I know. HH

Hammock Hanger

#15

pee bottles are good if you can find one with a wide mouth;)

Nimblefoot

#16

As a female, I used a ziplock bag to pee in in my tent at night. I didn’t use this in the shelters, only in the privacy of my tent. After I used it and zipped it shut I would just put it outside the door of my tent for the night.

I read about this here on TJ - a woman that did the CDT a few yrs ago talked about it.

jg

#17

Pee bottles are great. Nothing worse then having to get out of your tent in the middle of a cold or rainy night. As an older hiker, this can be multiple times so a pee bottle can be a great comfort.

I would not recommend doing this in a shelter. Its just not right. Also, disposal of the contents should be far away from the shelter and not in the campfire ring.

I’ll have to try the ziplock thing. Even a wide mouth bottle can be a little tricky and I’ve often wondered what I would do if I should get the thing stuck on me. Then there’s the whole problem with the errant stream.

Pee is sterile and should not cause illness. Perhaps you were a bit careless with your hygene.:cheers

Striker

#18

One time sleeping in a shelter on the A.T. I had to pee in the middle of the night and it was ridiculously foggy. I stumbled out of the shelter into the darkness and into a thicket of trees sans headlamp, only to lose my balance while peeing, fall down and get up completely disoriented. Had no idea which way was back to the shelter and spent a good 15 minutes wandering around the general vicinity of the shelter before finally finding my way back to it. I can’t have walked more than, like 15-25 yards from the shelter. A pee bottle would have been choice in this situation. I don’t sleep in shelters anymore anyway, though, so usually will just get up and pee right outside my tent if I have to go…it marks your territory and keeps the bears away.

Smack

#19

I can’t belive the freakin’ weirdos drinkin’ from the pee bottles. Don’t you peeps worry about your johnson or cooch germs gettin’ on the bottle? This place has gone whack.

Sage

#20

If your in your own tent, well fine.But if your in a shelter with others, you need to get your tired ,lazy ass up and walk off into the woods.

Virginian