Tuesday Tip - Pee Bottles Rock!

Something like this wide-mouth Nalgene bottle makes an ideal, luxury pee bottle, but you can, within reason, use any bottle with adequate capacity.

Adding a Shewee to your outdoors arsenal has the advantage of making pee bottles literally more accessible...

The humble pee bottle is the handy make-do accessory that dare not speak its name, but is worth its weight in gold. You know the score - you wake up in your tent at 3am. Outside the rain beats down like the percussion section of a military band. But your bladder is bursting...

... which is where the humble pee bottle saves the day. Instead of lurching uncomfortably out into the deluge in your fleece PJs, you simply reach for a handy screw-top bottle, do the business without leaving your tent, zip up your sleeping bag, breathe a sigh of relief and go back to sleep.

The great thing about pee bottles, of course, is that you can improvise - albeit carefully - ideally a wide-mouthed, screw-top bottle with 'adequate capacity' works best, but you can use most bottles within reason and with a little care, including disposable water or soft-drdinks containers, .

You do need to take a few basic precautions however....

• make sure the bottle is big enough, in all senses...
• make sure it's easy to distinguish from your drinking bottle (and your partner's)
• once you've used it either empty immediately or make sure the cap is well and truly sealed
• in sub-zero conditions, empty at once or face an unpleasant popsicle in the morning
• and once again MAKE SURE THE BOTTLE HAS ADEQUATE CAPACITY

Different For Girls

All of which is great for blokes, but a tad more problematic for women. The neatest answer is to combine a pee bottle with the ingenious Shewee device which allows women to urinate standing up and without removing clothes. 

It's also ideal for all-round hill use and is light, compact and relatively inexpensive, so not only does it make using a pee bottle a heck of a lot easier, it's also a great all-round buy.

So there you go. Give