By Karenna Awtry Luxury meets performance with the updated Deuter Aircontact 75 + 10 men’s expedition hiking pack. Expertly positioned padding, an air-circulating suspension and a body-hugging, pivoting hip belt work in conjunction to ensure your multi-day trek is enjoyable the whole way through. If you’re looking for a pack that will carry all your [...]
Classic Kelty Trekker The Kelty Trekker 3950 is a throwback in this technology-meets-style era of backpacks. This external frame pack is a classic, having changed very little from its pioneering days for Kelty. The famously tough external frame backpack gets a few modern updates from Kelty in the Trekker. Among them: adjustability and enhanced comfort. [...]
It’s time to swallow your pride and make a (quite fiscally humble) investment in the 2010 Kelty Lakota 4000 Backpack. Have you been lugging around the same uncomfortable, rigid backpack for 20 years, unwilling to admit it’s killing your back because the darn thing’s just so durable? You may find yourself pleasantly surprised at what [...]
By Karenna Awtry The Osprey Talon 44 hiking backpack is light — under 3 lbs., in fact. That’s not such an amazing feat in the realm of ultra-light adventure-racing packs, some of which boast weights of well under 2 lbs. What’s truly amazing about Osprey’s Talon 44 is that this day-weight pack isn’t a daypack [...]