Vaude Aracanda 30 Pack - 1830cu in - 2007 BCS

I brought this bag, for short rock climbing trip. I seldom utilize this bag. Mainly I use to store my harness and rock shoe. After I brought this bag within two months, the skin start of come out of the backing at the backrest. I send it back for a replacement. The 'new' one is having the same problem as well. I felt no point replacing another one, they just glue it back. After a year, the bag developed rips in the seams in the external. Even rarely use it. No doubt the design is nice but it's too expensive for such flaws. They claim living in South East Asia, the humidity is too high damaging the glue system. Now they are replacing me with Vaude Aracanda. Yet to collect but I hope the problems will not occur again.

This is a great overall day pack - the only downside for me is that I wish it had a more substantial waist/hip belt.

I absolutely love this pack. It is lightweight yet it can handle a pretty substantial load. The fact that it is waterproof is a great benefit. It's design allows your load to be tightly contained and because of that you can actually utilize this pack for "fastpacking" type hiking with very minimal movement, if any at all. I gave it four stars because several times I've wished it had more options for securing items externally: like pad, bivy or whatever --however that is probably because I am using for applications it was not intended for. Bottom line it is awesome and Vaude stands behind their product without hesitation!!