The Gregory Citro H2O comes in three volume capacities: 24, 30, and 36 liters. It is a comfortable daypack with various useful features that keep you moving, including its own hydration pouch. The ...

For avid backpackers, the search for a lightweight pack that is both comfortable and able to carry a hefty load seems to be never-ending. Gear maker and retailer Kuiu believes it's come up with a ...

Constructed from carbon fiber, Kuiu’s Icon Pro backpack frame weighs just 13 ounces, but is able to comfortably support loads of up to 150 pounds. What gives? Well, by day, I’m actually an aerospace ...

I spent the late 1990s and early 2000s outfitting people for their next big adventure. Packs, tents, stoves, clothes, canoes — you name it — I was the guy in a little camping store in the center of ...

Most lightweight technical backpacks compensate for the different shapes of various human torsos by incorporating a degree of flexibility into their frames. That works fine if you’re only asking that ...

There’s a lot to consider when buying a backpack, and for many shoppers, packs tend to look more alike than different. But when recently shopping for packs, I bumped into the Fjallraven Kajka 35, and ...

When I first started getting into backpacking, around a decade ago, virtually all serious backpacks were external frame. Now it seems to be harder and harder to find good external frame packs. What ...