 Most people I know wrap a length around their walking poles, I've wrapped mine around a nalgene bottle. Bit wider and allows you to carry a bit more but out of the way all the same. Duct tape was a wonderful invention.
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 Only handy if you're a heavyweight backpacker, Simon. What if you don't carry a heavy nalgene bottle?  
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 I have some wrapped around my old Sigg but that's dual-use (keeps my hands from freezing when there's cold water inside). I also have some wrapped around a small permanent marker pen that goes in with my lighter weight kit. Is there such thing as UL duct tape for the SUL fanatics? Mike, if you're going that lightweight I suggest you put a large strip of duct tape over your mouth for the benefit of all on the hill
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Cheers John. I can't see the point in carrying a rigid, plastic, heavy bottle. What function does it serve, apart from taking up volume in your pack?
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 Micropore is excellent John...very very light... ...yet unhappily next to useless for most outdoors repair activities
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Sometimes the Sigg gets upgraded to role of hot water bottle (placed in a sock)... mostly it's just an old companion I don't mind bringing along. Other people take big telephoto lenses, sock puppets or knitted munkys. I've not mastered the platy-style drinking option and tend to have two one-litre bottles on the go with a micropur tablet doing the job in one while I drink from the other. Not exactly light weight, but a system that has served me fine for years.
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duct tape, never leave home without it. mine gets rapted around a small pencil. that is a UL pencil of coarse.
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Indeed ed h. Funny thing about micropore is that... well... it's micro porous. So similarly good at repairing leaky things as, say, a teabag. Unless of course you include patching up holes in people as outdoors repair activities???
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You've been living in France too long, John. Hot water bottles?
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 for my other half, obviously! She feels the cold terribly, what with being from Toronto... 
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 Hey, when camping I like bottles that warm you up too! 
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Decanted into a platy though Rocky!
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 Most people I know wrap a length around their walking poles, I've wrapped mine around a nalgene bottle. Bit wider and allows you to carry a bit more but out of the way all the same. Duct tape was a wonderful invention.
I had duct tape around a walking pole for several years before I needed to use it and then found that it was stuck together and would only come off in small and useless pieces so my advice would be to replace the duct tape every year or so.
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.JPG) Seems a bit of a faff to me to put duct tape around stuff like walking poles - which are gonna get wet regularly - therefore reducing the tapes quality. I carry a part used - 99p mini roll - the tube in the middle is just longer than and wider than a guterman thread reel (inc needle) - so my repair kit 'nests'. Weighs next to nothing and lives with my other 'first aid' items (compeed, painkillers, immodium, lavender oil and melonin dressing, zinc oxide tape, spare lighter and Microlight LED torch)
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Mole, forgive my ignorance but what do you carry the lavender oil for? Are you apt to taking a hot aromatherapeutic bath in the porch of your tent?
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John - Lavender oil is one of the few oils which can be used neat. It has a multitude of uses. It's a natural antisceptic (used for centuries see F. Nightingale!)- can be put neat on small wounds - promotes healing too. Also, a little on the temples often helps a headache, and relaxes, helping sleep. Also works fast to relieve the effect of wasp stings and insect bites. I'm not a big user of oils, and am not convinced by all the claims of 'aromatherapy' , but we've been using it for the above purposes for over 12 years now, and it works very well - I can vouch for that though much experience.
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Well, my overnight hiking kit usually includes a tube of Arnica gel so I'd not say I was averse to 'alternative' methods of treating commong ailments. I'd be happy to try the lavender if it wasn't for the potential for a 'perfumed ponce' moment at the pub...
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.jpg) John I,ll go along with the two sigg bottles idea but to suggest Mike has his mouth taped is a bit over the top, I find Mikes comments, whilst I don,t always agree, are well worth reading which is more than I can say for some of the things that get posted on here.  Cheers.
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 Why not just get a small, compact roll?
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 Sometimes the Sigg gets upgraded to role of hot water bottle (placed in a sock)... mostly it's just an old companion I don't mind bringing along. Other people take big telephoto lenses, sock puppets or knitted munkys. I've not mastered the platy-style drinking option and tend to have two one-litre bottles on the go with a micropur tablet doing the job in one while I drink from the other. Not exactly light weight, but a system that has served me fine for years.
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