OUTDOOR ACTIVITIES
Article Two Review
CHOSEN CONTENT:
The 10 Best Daypacks for Every Adventure
REVIEW BY CAMERON BURGESS:
Austin Parker for Gear Patrol, a online men’s magazine, rounds up 10 of the best backpacks designed to “haul both your climbing gear and [...] laptop over mountains and through airports”. Ranging from sub $100 to $230 in price, he covers a wide range of products from refined staples to cutting-edge packs. Here’s a complete list:
- Black Diamond Pack Best Hiking Pack $130
- Montane Dragon 20 Best Ultralight Pack $159
- Bergans Rondane 12L Dragon 20 Best Running Pack $109
- CAMP Roxback Best Cragging Pack $80
- Mountainsmith Borealis Best Camera Pack $209
- Arc’Teyyx Astri 19 Best Urban-to-Backcountry Pack $149
- Mountain Hardwear Hueco 35 Best Alpine climbing Pack $130
- Camelbak VOLT 13L Best Biking Pack $125
- Madden Equipment Daylite Best Throwback Pack $230
- Gregory Miwok 34 Editor’s Pick $149
If I learned one thing whilst reading article it’s this: there is a lot of variety in outdoor gear and from now on I’ll certainly be spending a lot more time in the research and shopping phase before buying products. Upon browsing Gear Patrol’s extensive list of items I was reminded of how much I truly love and hate choice — on the one hand, choice gives you the freedom to decide for yourself. On the other, choices take a lot of time and effort to make.
Though I just recently aquired a new backpack, this article has made me quite interested in investigating backpacks again, so I’ll probably be looking for some other excuse to buy another backpack soon.
Parker does a great job of highlighting the best gear across many different categories like Hiking, Running, Camera and Ultralight. His descriptions of each pack are descriptive, but to the point as he doesn’t waste your time with meaningless jargon or unnecessary superlatives. It would have been nice if Gear Patrol had opted to include a Pros and Cons for each bag in addition to the descriptions to help make isolating potential problems easier — but this qualm hardly diminishes what is included in the guide. Parker’s guide is quick and dirty; the best kind of useful.
STAR SCORE:
4
NELSON ‘14, SEMESTER 2
By Cameron Burgess
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