Rucksacks, Backpacks, Drypacks and Pack Frames. What I Use for Load Carrying.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ต.ค. 2020
- In this video, I go through the bags I use for load carrying when Backpacking, Canoeing and Wild Camping. Being able to carry heavy loads in comfort for a prolonged period of time is critical to the success of a trip - a cheap, unbalanced, poorly made, uncomfortable pack will quickly ruin your day.
I have a range of bags suited for different situations, activities, seasons and duration of the trip I am on. These are all bags that I have bought myself and I have chosen them based on the quality, durability and comfort offered, some are expensive, others less so and many of them, I have bought used to save cost.
I hope you enjoy the video.
Thanks for watching!
Links
Alpkit Gourdon 30l
alpkit.com/products/gourdon-30
SealLine Boundary Portage Pack
www.seallinegear.com/ie/packs...
Palm River Trek 100l
palmequipmenteurope.com/produ...
Osprey Talon
www.ospreyeurope.com/shop/gb_...
Deuter Futura 30
www.deutergb.co.uk/products/h...
Swedish Army LK35
www.militarymart.co.uk/produc...
Tatonka Lastenkraxe Pack Frame
www.tatonka.com/en/product/la...
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The "Sealine" large blue I bought in Alaska in 2003. Almost died at Lacante Glacier and used the dry toilet paper to make a signal flag. I am here due to that dry bag!!❤
As no-one has left a comment in 3 years,
let me say "Well done!"
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The quality of your videos is so impressive. It’s like you’ve prepared your lesson, brought physical examples, brilliant graphics, fabulous music and a very direct clear dialogue. In summarising you show how you’ve used them where you manage to bring emotions out in some of us too.Top man.I’ve been following you since around 2000 subs and always look forward to your inputs. Well done.😍🏴😷🥰
Imagine the surprise for the family when they discover all their clothes were taken to fill all the backpacks 😄
😂😂😂 Dad, I’m freezing.......can I have my jumpers back now?!!!
I bought the new Alpkit Gourdon 30L recently and found it annoying that the top would open up while walking with a full load - I had no idea about the toggle, thanks very much Simon!
Fantastic video! You're a man of your word you are Simon. You said you'd make this video and you did not disappoint! Thank you for taking the time to explain everything and to add the links to find them too. Excellent job 👍
Pleasure Craig! 😁👍
The best straight forward video on packs that I've seen. Nice one Simon. Pete
I've been looking at the Lastenkraxe for a while now and just came across this video. Thanks Simon. There's no decent reviews on it and you've finally made mind up. Ordered it today. Great channel by the way. Keep up the good work.
Fantastic video. Thankyou for all your hard work in bringing simple useful information to my attention. Happy trails.
A very honest down to earth trustworthy video and chap
Right so to add to the several Petramax Dutch ovens and griddles we now own I ‘need’ a frame pack :)
Hahaha - sorry!! 😂
I stand by what I said on Instagram..rucksack rehab needed ! 😄 how funny would that be if someone stumbled upon you in the woods surrounded by rucksacks, filming yourself ! They would think you were up to no good ! 🤣
Haha, funny you should say that, a bloke came walking past with his dogs while I was filming - I did explain I was making a video about rucksacks, but I dont think he was convinced!! 🤔
That's funny ! 😄 well you know you cant go to that spot to film again !😂
A great roundup of rucksacks Simon. Your final words re brands and value for money - you’re a real diplomat! You missed your calling I think!
Hahaha, ambassador Simon 😁
Great variety and uses. Thanks for sharing your experience. 4/18/24
I grew up in theTennessee mountains listening to banjo music like that! 🎵
Enjoyed your video showing all the numerous Packs and Bags. It’s fun hearing you talk about your gear.
I really like how the frame packs can carry other items. These are really good bags. Thanks for showing them all!
Hold crap dude you have a lot of gear. I like the last frame pack looks like a beast.
Sorry for just getting to this video today, 4 days behind, been working a lot , 80 + hrs a week . Thanks for the video Simon . Nice looking packs . Good info and its appreciated . The song at the beginning of the video was grate , being from the coal fields of West Virginia , now living in northeast Kentucky that banjo playing was right on , can’t get no better than bluegrass music, in my book it’s the best.
Video: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Simon: ⭐️👍👊✌🏻🙏🍺💯
Very useful insight into what works for you 👍Chilling to watch with a cuppa as always. Cheers Simon. Stay safe. ATVB from sunny Malaysia 😎😷🇲🇾
The tatonka exterior frame pack looks awesome!
Excellent! Excellent! Very informative! You go through them all making sure to answer it all! And you do it so well! I now know which one is my next one! I mean which one I need er...a..hafta have right now!!! Thanks Simon!!!
Hi Simon, since I discovered your channel about 2months ago. Since then I’ve almost solely watched your back catalogue. Thank you so much for the quality & very informative information you go in to such detail, while explaining in your videos. Very easy to see why you’ve topped the 100k subs. Thanks again 👍👍
Kit junky heaven! I use a Karrimor Sabre SF 45 with 2 rocket pouches..awesome piece of kit.
blimey that tatonka is a beast! oh look & when you unhook the pack it becomes a chair which in combination with the dutch oven it swallowed you have foot stool.. bring along a projector and you have an outdoor cinema!
Great video Simon. . I bought the Tatonka for myself this weekend.
So I've joined your club my friend.
Your recommendation was enough for me. . Stay safe and well chap.
What a thorough review. Thanks Simon.
Hi. I have Shakespeare back pack chair with back. It’s similar to that army one in style and works fantastic for me on hikes. Nice to have a place to sit down anywhere
Thanks Simon, yet another awesome video! Many thanks 👍
Nice one Simon 👌🏻 excellent info and more stuff to add to my wish list 👍🏻😜
Great to see you again
Great collection! I look forward to seeing them in action.
Great collection that you have there. Thanks for sharing!
Thanks for going through the various options Simon. Found it very informative.
Hey simon with regards to the plce webbing pouches the longer tab slides through the hole first and the smaller one follows behind to lock it in place. For a more secure fit
very well made video about your rucksacks! thank you, for showing this gear! 🙏
Great video, a treat to get a tour or your collection!
Seal line bags served me very well for some 20 years or so. Good stuff for canoeing.
Always a fun interesting watch.
Excellent, and as usual...great descriptions, thanks
Thank you Simon..👋❤👍. We enjoy your videos
Thank you, helpful timing for me. I recently went on a week long canoe trip, with 3 smaller SealLine packs. While they worked well, portaging 3 small packs kinda sucked, and decided to look for one big pack once I got back. I think something like that blue SealLine is my ticket.
I’m a Suffolk ex-pat living in Queensland; your videos are a wonderful taste of (almost) home. I love them!
Thanks for the review , very educational . God speed , stay safe .
Every time your channel pops up, I get excited bloke. Thanks so much for your time and energy put in for my pleasure! Very much appreciated sir. Always enjoy hearing your opinions and advice, seeing your travels. Your channel simply is one of the best. I wish you many happy adventures ahead.
Thank you Eddie!
loved a re-watch of this video. Great adventures Simon!!
Great video Simon see them on line they are worth the money thinks for sharing info on them you and your family take care see you on the next video.
My new pack arrives Thursday thanks to your bad influence. Just in time for lockdown! We’re fairly local to eachother so if you see someone on your travels buckling under the weight of their new Tatonka, that’ll probably be me. Cheers and thanks for the inspiration.
Brilliant stuff. Thanks to your link I just bought a Millbank Bag and enamel cups. Thank you Simon.
Great content and advice as usual, thanks Simon. My Deuter Futura 30 arrives today and I know my back will appreciate it. Happy camping 🤓
Simon 👍 nice one.
Look forward to your next adventure atb Taff 🤠
Nice bags. Like the canoe bags and that giant frame pack. I adapted an old baby carrier frame to hold one of my larger packs. Works well for autumn/winter camps. I have loads of bags, my favourites are 90s vintage and my Berghaus Munro army pack. 😀
And again a Great vid!! Thnx for uploading!!!
Great as always Simon. I've got a huge one of those thick, hard wearing sacks for canoeing and it's been on every canoe trip since 2005. It's been thrown on rocks, sat out in all weathers (you get all the weather every day up in Scotland where most of my trips happen), and it's still going strong. It got no carrying straps but it's just for canoe camping and I always portage with a trolley anyway. Even the yellow ones I got from Aldi are bullet proof. Thanks for the video as always :]
Great video as usual Simon. Nice pile o packs and well done hauling all that lot for us. 💪 🥾🌲
Another great one Simon. Totally agree, you usually get what you pay for, particularly important for dry bags. Stay well, atb
Thanks for introducing me to Seal Line.... I'm very tempted by the Boundary :)
Nice video. Very informative. Keep them coming.
Simon, you a a serious instructor and it shows in your videos. Well done, my friend. You are a lot more serious about your backs than I am. I have a couple or three, but not like you. You can really haul a load with all those packs. Thank you for the lesson and demonstration. Texas
Great stuff. You’re great at these ones. I now know what the funny thing on the osprey sternum strap is. Only last night did I spend best part of an hour trying to reattach slider grip to piping and I wondered what is that on the snap buckle and you’ve now wised me up - a whistle no less lol👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Very interesting reviews great video simon
I can attest to the Lastenkraxe, great pack did not regret my decision to get it. Especially here in Australia were water sources are extremely scarce I sacrifice some of the 80 litres and tie down a large container of water.
The Caucasus is a nice place to hike to if you can get anywhere. Hope to see your video
Best outdoor content on TH-cam by far. Thanks Simon, your personality and presentation are fantastic.
Thank you!
Great job as always 👍🏻
Possibly the best backpack video out there. ;)
Very well laid out multi-function options for many scenarios.
Those new SealLine packs look especially good and clever use
of those backpacking frames too. Nice.
That stack of packs that did not make the cut was huuuuuuuuge!!!! Thanks for the video Simon, brilliant as always. Kind regards
All nice packs! I only have three and two of them are very old they don't even have tags on them anymore so I don't know what kind they are but they work okay for me. Maybe I'll get some new ones sometime. Thanks for the good info Simon!😊👍👍
Well as a young person I had a dome tent, kept my gear in the car an old Chevy hatchback, ready to go. One weekend we went to the Calamus reservoir and river. Where we camped the first night, two great big Cabela's dome tents were set up. Now I think adverstisment no human activity around them. It became the dawning of the TENT ENVY. Now I can say there are many types of items to envy. It seems to be with me, the bivowak era type stuff. Including the corduroy pants. 1970s on....Thanks... fun and informative as always...
Thank you. Great job.
My goodness that Tatonka was a thing of beauty! I am not planning on carrying heavy weights myself, but I would definitely go for one of those. I have one of the Alpkit dry bags and it has done me nicely for four days in France and lots of other day trips etc, useful on a bike too.
Thanks dry bags always made me wonder
Now thats a pack collection. Having at least one good dry bag is important if you're outdoors in the weather at all. I use a Wolfman dry duffle--the opening is on the long side rather than the narrow end. Very nice and always dry inside.
Great overview of the important features to look for.
deuter is my long time fav. i love them too much .
Hi Simon
Great video.lots of information and varying degrees of technology..loving the tatonka.thats a beast of a pack...added to the Xmas list for this year🤞🤞...thanks for sharing your collection of packs..👍👍😀😀
I got an old Hagloffs Alaska frame pack (they stopped making them 20 years ago) - truly awesome pack.
You've got a awesomely wicked channel never bored during the lockdown, you're channel is a inspiration and you have my respect and admiration. Totally brilliant content, tips, information and you got a beautiful dog a real heart warming channel to watch never boring. I myself live near the Brecon Beacons hope to see you up there if you're ever around that area after this bloody lockdown. Keep Safe.
The a frame packs looked awesome :)
Very informative video Simon. I always thought Berghaus were the first with the Airflow system. Looking forward to the next one.
Thanks Andy, Deuter I believe were using it in the early/mid 90s 👍
Thank you Simon for all your videos me and my wife watch them nightly every night before bed you’ve got us wanting to hike more and do backpacking this spring keep up the videos and thanks for the stove ideas
Glad you’re both enjoying them! 😁👍
This is what i like about Simon, a simple and objective explanation. He could have divided that content to have views, instead, he prepared a quick and well made video. Thanks Simon, I was looking for backpacks, and this helps a lot.
Thanks for sharing, Simon! You and your gear are always presented with simplicity and practicality in mind. Just picked up a second frame pack today - an old american boy scout 'world famous' no.204, which pairs well with the other pack no.229 the 'kilimanjaro' both super thrifty cheap, and somewhere to start. Keep up the great work, we love your content!
Peace & Grace
Adam & Katey
Nice score! The old gear was built so much better! 👍
In the long run payingbthat bit extra means you not only get years of use out of the item but it quickly pays for itself.
Excellent vlog, thanks!
Hope Mrs Bloke in the woods and the kids are well!
Stay safe!
Another top quality vid. Decent mate! I’ve got the DD Bergen which I love to bits.
Hello Simon! The Tatonka looks a lovely pack, and seems an easier shopping choice over the plethora of frames and packs offered by Kifaru, though those are nice too. I use my Karrimor SF Sabre 45, and the extra 25 L PLCE side pockets, or my old 30 L MEC Klettersack...lovely packs, the pair. Cheers!!!
OH MY!! You can't just LEAVE TWO of them alone in the woods overnight with no counseling. I lived through the frame with airspace and the 'tight to the body' backpack periods. I appreciate your introducing us to the Deuter pack system in use today. Managing heat and moisture is a big asset in day(s) long treks. BUT WAIT...the very LAST pack is external frame and demonstrates what 'old time' frames with removable bags had to offer for load carrying. THANKS for a fine overview of today's market.
@@MonicaOutdoors Yes...leave them for two minutes in a breeze and they are wrapped indiscriminately together. I changed to poly hangers.
The Norfolk rucksack breeding program! 😂
very comprehensive and informative, ta.
Nice packs, I have the LK35 and I have added the same side pouches and I have changed the frame to an aluminium one 👍
Totally awesome, dood.
That’s great Simon. What a collection!! Seal Line look great. Will be ideal for my canoe trips with my Silverbirch. Christmas is coming! Thanks for putting the video together. Hope you’re doing well?
Nice assortment of packs Simon. ATB
You forgot something to mention regarding the latter two. No zippers! A big plus for me. Goes for mesh pockets as well. Fed up with cheap backpacks. Me thinks the Tatonka will last a life time,, and the price, new, is not too bad, mid range, so to speak. The main compartment is 60 liters, but with the side and front pockets and stuffing extra at the top it turns into 80 liters. Great video!
Good review simon.
Great video Simon. Not being so well built and with increasing age I am trying to get the lightest possible kit that will do the job.
Hope you hit 100,000 soon. Your content deserves it. Thnkyvrymch.
great vid Simon - I have a couple of different rucksacks and haversacks now but watching this I realized that I need to really look into getting a sealline for a couple of trips I plan next spring. Just wanted to thank you again for all your videos and inspiration which got me back into this stuff when I randomly stumbled across you on TH-cam last year and began watching your videos. So I spent 3 days disperse camping (you guys call it wild camping I think) last month in the woods sleeping in my hammock, fishing, hiking and remembering all the stuff I did as a teenager. AND I can still do some of that 50 years later - not as fast with the bum knee - not as strong - but can still do it. My wife just shakes her head but I am loving it! (am hoping to get out on an overnighter in two weeks to do some campfire cooking, but the snow has come early this year so will have to see if this old man can handle the temps and the hiking in the snow if it doesn't melt)
Thanks Ken! I’m thrilled to have been an inspiration! Good luck with the upcoming camp - bung a couple of those disposable hand warmers in your sleeping bag before bed - a nice little pre-heater! 😉🔥👍
fantastic video Thanks a lot!
Good stuff sir👍
As always , wonderfully done* Your patience & skills hold no bounds :-) No matter what subject you cover you have me fully engrossed. Thank you* :-)
Thanks mate! 👍
very good gear review!!! i liked the osprey 18, seal line 80, and the tatonka. only problem i see with the tatonka is id need a trolly to carry it, lol. my days of putting alot of weight are long gone. very competent review!!!
Thanks for putting the links up to each pack mate. I’ve got decisions to make as to which pack to get for canoeing 👍.
The LK35 is a quality pack isn’t it. You can fit so much gear in it great!.
Thanks for sharing your collection 👍
Worth saying that one can buy packs of large sewing needles for around £1/$1 and big reels of nylon thread for £1.50/$2 that matches exactly any pack. Can reinforce stitching or make repairs easily/cheaply.
Interesting video, well rounded pack systems. I noticed that Ferrino(Italian I think) also do a similar frame to your Tatonka one here. I'm surprised no one has filled this custom ' welded external backpack frame' void, that I know of anyway. Great content 👍🏼
Nice video simon