by icefest » Thu 21 Nov, 2013 12:50 pm
Exams are finally over and I've had a chance to play around with it.
Just walking around the house so far with 10kg in it. Its very comfortable (with lumbar pad) but the load lifters were not needed, they just get in the way and attach in a very strange way...
Otherwise, I like the designs of both the chest and wait pockets, though the chest pockets are rather small. I might attach another strap to the top to prevent my water bottles falling out. (If you lean forwards when you have a 700ml bottle in them they fall out). The water bottle pockets on either side of the pack itself are spendidly large, no more worries about making bottles fit like in my Macpac Cascade.
In all I am quite happy with it. I'll be able to give a better review when I come back from the South Coast track in a couple of weeks.
The only thing that I noticed was that the seam tape on the inside, on the top edge of the water bladder hole hasn't been cut properly so that it would eventually come off - fixed it myself (and the bottom of the same hasn't been seam taped - fixed with seam grip).
I also got a down hood and a couple of cuben bags and pillow.
Men wanted for hazardous journey. Low wages, bitter cold, long hours of complete darkness. Safe return doubtful.