The main purpose of this blog is to keep in touch with friends and family, and maybe entertain others with common interests, particularly in relation to the outdoors. Whether you’re carrying heavy loads over long distances, exploring trails close to home, or travelling half-way round the world, we’ll get you packed for the adventure. Your back length can be found by measuring from your C7 vertebra (the bony protrusion at the back of your neck) to your iliac crest (the top of your hips). The Fair Wear Foundation is a clothing industry specific, non-profit organization that ensures sustainable, fair and safe labour conditions in factories.

The bag features small zipped pockets at each end and a large zipped compartment inside the lid that, along with internal compression straps, helps you keep your gear organised. and the external fabric can withstand quite a beating from being dropped on, scraped over, and dragged across various surfaces. Lowe Alpine designers also kept seams at a minimum (reducing the weaknesses in the bag's design and thereby making it more durable). In my eyes, the biggest advantage of a duffle bag is that you can carry (and access) all of the stuff you need for a big trip in one place.We have used the same fabrics, design and manufacturing standards that you have come to expect from our expedition and climbing packs and applied them to a brand new adventure travel range. Features include tamperproof zips and TPU coated fabric to increase durability and water resistance.

There’s a deep pocket on the front that’s suitable for all the provisions and snacks you may wish to have ready access to during your walk, and behind that pocket is a cavernous space in which I have been keeping my waterproofs, but others may wish to stash their tent here. Keeping your items secure and organised compression straps have been used, stopping movement and making everything easy to find. At approximately 1400 gm the Nanon is perhaps slightly lighter than the Quest, and it is more compact, topping out at about 60 litres capacity compared with the Quest’s 72 litres.It’s highly water resistant (having now experienced a torrential downpour in the foothills of the Himalayas, I can attest the truth of this claim! I too found the straps really comfy, but also found the handles great as the pure webbing ones dig in after a while!