[pct-l] Backpacks

[Bob Sartini]

I used a Golite Trek for the AT and the Florida Trail and I intend on using 
it for the PCT this year. It has held up well. Of course when you get past 
30 pounds you wont be happy but that's food and water so it gets better 
every day or hour.

The side pockets are nice and deep enough to easily hold a nalgene although 
sometimes they pop out if you fling your pack into a pickup truck.

It's a two pound pack. Golite may have renamed it though.

"EVERYTHING is in walking distance,"
    ......Bamboo Bob
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Robert W. Freed" <robert at engravingpros.com>
To: <pct-l at backcountry.net>; <littleleum at yahoo.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2008 12:21 AM
Subject: [pct-l] Backpacks


> a more solid backpack

Last year I switched to a Golite Lightspeed. I only have a few
hundred trail miles on it, but so far I like it. Having a pack with
a full suspension makes it easy to pickup that twenty pound
re-supply. My only dislike is that the side pockets are to
small. There are several two pound packs with a internal frame
and full suspension out there these days. I think they are worth
the extra weight. I've seen many a sore shoulder hiker out there.
Robert
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