Review on 32-Ounce Nalgene Wide Mouth Canteen - Durable & Leakproof Water Bottle by Cameron Reed

For holding water on a hike, I use Platypus bottles. They're as light as can be, and when empty they fold down to almost nothing. This Nalgene bottle can't do that because of the wide lid, but the wide lid is why I bought it. It's the bottle I use to scoop up water from streams while backpacking. I put a piece of cheesecloth over the mouth and can fill the bottle by drawing it through even a shallow stream. That can't be done with the small-mouthed Platypus bottles. If I'm hiking where I expect to find plenty of water deeper than, say, a foot, I leave the Nalgene behind and just take the Platypus bottles, which can be filled if held vertically in the water.