Posts Tagged ‘Backpacker Magazine’

Gregory Women’s Deva 60 Backpacking Backpack

October 19th, 2009

Redesigned and face-lifted, the women’s Deva 60 Backpacking Backpack is Gregory’s top-selling female specific backpack and a Backpacker Magazine’s 2008 Editor’s Choice Award winner. Highly organized and fully featured, this versatile pack is light enough for a quick overnight, yet supportive enough to load up with a week’s worth of gear “a potential load monster that fits like a dream”. It features Gregory’s precurved, women’s-specific 3D harness that is dual density with a precurve and a waistbelt that is designed to wrap naturally around your body’s contours. With updated Response Auto Fit Suspension (AFS) system that automatically adjusts to your hip angle and pivots to mirror your body’s movements the best in weight distribution, increased load support, and exceptional comfort is achieved. Convenience features allow for top – front – side loading w/ sleeping bag compartment, front pocket and twin side pockets with stash pouch storage, and easy access hideaway water bottle holder and stash pocket. The Deva 60 is the ideal companion for life’s travels.

Gregory Women’s Deva 70 Backpacking Backpack

October 19th, 2009

New for 2009, the women’s Gregory Deva 70 Backpacking Backpack with over 4200 cubic inches of storage capacity is dialed for extended backpacking trips. During a long haul a high-performance Response Auto Fit Suspension (AFS) system automatically adjusts to your hip angle and pivots to mirror your body’s movements for even weight distribution, increased load support, and exceptional comfort. A single aluminum stay connects to the twin independent rotating waistbelt panels that auto-adjust to your hips and ensure proper load transfer. The shoulder harness also Auto-rotates at the attachment points, to adjust to the contours of your neck and shoulders to eliminating pinching and chafing. Accompanying stabilizer straps at the waist allow for optimum fit micro adjustments as a curved composite top frame “stiffener” further increases stability and aids in weight distribution. Internally, a lashed divider separates the top and front-entry main compartment from the lower sleeping bag compartment, allowing for organization or the separation of wet gear. Keeping you organized on the trail convenient features include a canted water bottle holder, gear loops, side – cross over and lower panel compression straps, and hydration compatible removable sleeve and exit port. When big is better this sister to the Backpacker Magazine 2008 Editor’s Choice Award winning Deva 60 has it all.

Arc’teryx Khazri 55 Backpack

August 19th, 2009

Voted Best Peakbagger- Backpacker Magazine’s Gear of the Year Awards
Designed for speed and physical economy on the mountain, the Arc’teryx Khazri 55 Backpack is a lightweight alpine focused pack with room for the essentials, but leaves the superfluous features at home. How fast and light is up to you, with strippable V-frame suspension, removable aluminum stays, removable hipbelt with thermoformed hip pods, removable hip belt gear loops, removable dual density framesheet, and removable lid. Strip it all down, and it compresses for light forays, or a summit bid.

Go Lite Men’s Pursuit Backpacking Pack

August 19th, 2009

Voted Best All-Purpose Pack- Backpacker Magazine’s Gear of the Year Awards 2009
The smallest volume pack of the Venture Series, the GoLite Pursuit Backpacking Pack is a sleek little number that is just as confident in the backwoods and slopes as it is on the rock. The moldable framesheet has two adjustable aluminum stays and the shaped back panel and padded hip belt wings contour to your back and hips for optimal comfort and support. The Pursuit also features a removable top lid, two quick-release side compression buckles with a Hypalon patch to support skis carried diagonally, a front pocket that holds a shovel, handle, skins and probe, and side compression straps that release and join to opposite sides to carry your winter gear. All this for just 3 lbs!

Gregory Z 55

August 19th, 2009

Backpacker Magazine gave the Gregory Z 55 hiking backpack “5 out of 5″ and declared it the “Best All Around Weekend Pack,” and National Geographic Adventure voted the Z 55 “Best of Adventure.”