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Just as I thought I’d settled the hydration system tasting business – someone goes and launches a new product that looks worth a try.

BackpackingLight.com (not UK/Bob and Rose but USA/Ryan Jordan) has just started selling something that looks very similar to a Platypus, the Evernew Collapsible Water Bottle.

Evernew are a Japanese company that I’ve not come across before but they apparently do a fairly large range. The Collapsible Water Bottles appear on page 66 of their 129 page ebook catalogue. Though the size of that might be a bit misleading since the catalogue isn’t all their own equipment.

They also have a surprisingly involved looking drinking tube and bite valve in the catalogue that’s not so far available from BPL.At 43gms (42 if you read the ebook catalogue!) it’s 12gms heavier than the Platypus 2L Reservoir but if it tastes even less of plastic I’ll be carrying it. Some more taste testing to be done – but only a little – this is stretching even my patience with gear testing!