timdaman1401895

I am a gram-counting ultra lighter but my g/f is fairly new to ultra-lighting. I have been trimming away her pack weight trip by trip and this time it was with a new pack. She has gotten her gear solidly in the light weight realm. I estimate her base weight at about 10-14 lbs plus 10-15 lbs for food and water on our trip with this pack. She seemed very happy with this pack. It was a bit heavy on the first day with a full load a food and water but after that I never heard a complaint. It is a pity they don't make women's in large as she is rather tall but overall it fit her frame well so I suppose it was not an issue. The pack suits her quite well letting her bring the extra changes of clothes she likes. I my option this pack is massive for an ultralight pack but traditional backpackers will have some hard choices to make. The things I didn't like about this otherwise excellent pack were 1) The cinch straps we longer than I would like. This allows them to slap the pack a lot and get caught up in things. 2) The pack features a nice outside pocket. I found when the pack was full and being worn it was hard to operate the zipper. Not a big deal but it made it hard for me to fetch things for her on the first couple days as she had to take off the bag to let me close the pocket. The things I liked 1) A great feature is as her load got smaller that pack features an awesome set of volume adjusters to really shrink the load. 2) Another feature is the pack has a very nice back-pad built which my g/f could use under her feet at night reducing the size of the sleeping pad she carried. 3) It looks like it wears like iron. We only used it thus far for 6 days but in those day it was dragged across enough sharp rock that it would make most of my other packs weep. I recommend this for someone between heavy weight and ultralight or winter ultralight.