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Light On Your Feet, By Way of a Pack

Next to your boots, a backpack is the one other piece of gear you’ll either loathe or love at the end of a multi-day backcountry trip. That’s because the way it fits makes itself known on every inch of trail you hike with it. The way it carries your gear and how easily you can [...]

The Hydration Pack. Evolved.

Hydration packs have been around a few decades now and every backpack company makes them. They revolutionized the way we carry our water while hiking, mountain biking, ultra-running and even fighting wars. But after breaking new ground, hydration packs haven’t changed much. Sure, they come in different sizes and configurations for different sports but I [...]

The Osprey Stratos 18 is a daypack perfect for quick hikes, mountain bike rides or cross country skis runs. It’s also perfect just to toss some gear into and take to the gym – doing double duty as a daypack and an extension pack with it’s stretch side pockets that carry extra gear. The 2/3 [...]

The Osprey V22 from Boeing may be one of the most incredible looking and functioning aircrafts you never come in contact with. Its ability to function like a heavy-duty turboprop at high-speeds and high altitudes, then tilt its nacale Rolls-Royce Allison turbshafts to land and hover like a helicopter, then fold its wings back into [...]