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Post by High Sierra Fan on Jun 27, 2016 21:48:28 GMT -8
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2016 15:15:42 GMT -8
Im looking at the EXOS 58. Has anyone tried the Teton Sports Explorer 4000? I hear great things about it, but the cheap price kinda scares me.
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Post by almostthere on Jun 30, 2016 18:25:38 GMT -8
Great things? Not sure a pack that weighs 5 pounds empty would ever rate "great" in my world... Maybe, if I routinely had to hike out with a half an elk...
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2016 11:43:21 GMT -8
Im looking at the EXOS 58. Has anyone tried the Teton Sports Explorer 4000? I hear great things about it, but the cheap price kinda scares me. The EXOS 58 and a Teton Sports Explorer 4000. There is a lot of pack capicity difference between the EXOS 58 and the Teton 4000. To me, if you can fit all your backpacking gear into a 4000L pack then your not interested in a pack that weighs 5 pounds. Your interest would be in a lghtweight pack for lightweight gear. The EXOS 58 weighs around 2 pounds 12 ounces. What will 5 pounds of Teton 4000 do for you besides sitting on your back all day? The Teton 5500 is about the same capicity as the EXOS. The weight of the 5500 is kinda hard to pin down from the write up. The shipping weight of the 5500 is 4.95 pounds. Frankly, at this point the Teton seems a bit screwy but hey, if you get one, post a review. |
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Post by jazzmom on Jul 1, 2016 15:39:20 GMT -8
I believe the "4000" stands for 4000 cubic inches, which is 65.5 liters. Im looking at the EXOS 58. OK. So, give us a little more to work with. Have you assembled or have a pretty good idea of how much your gear is going to weigh IN TOTAL? Start with your "big 4" - tent, sleeping bag, pad and pack. The rule of thumb that has worked pretty well for me is to DOUBLE your 'big 4' weight to estimate your base weight. Then add 2-lb per day for food, and 2-lb per liter of water (think longest likely trip and worst case water scenario.) Now add any extra gear you'll be carrying for your kids. What do you have? In the 50-lb range? "Looking at" a pack should at least involve loading up the pack with your estimated gear weight and wandering around for a while. IMO, weight is more important than volume. Unless you're carrying unusual things, most pack volumes are sized appropriately for the recommended target weight range (i.e. 40 pounds of gear generally takes up about the same amount of volume.) For someone without a lot of experience, I think it's not a bad strategy to buy from a store like REI that has a liberal return policy. You can take the pack on a real hike with real gear and decide that it doesn't work for you and exchange it for something else. IMO, choosing a pack based on someone else's experience is a bad idea. |
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Post by almostthere on Jul 1, 2016 19:28:08 GMT -8
Pretty much, choosing anything based on someone else's experience.... Especially if there was one experience, ten years ago, that one time when Uncle Bart and Dad and Ken all went backpacking, and got the very cheapest thing they could find because it was like four miles over two days and all Ken wanted to carry was a keg of beer. AND, you are trying to find something to take on a 2000 mile through hike, or you intend to use it for weeks on end across two continents. There is a certain level of context that is necessary for these things. The most important with an internal frame backpack is how it fits YOUR back, not anyone else's, and if you haven't even been measured correctly yet, there's not much the internet has that's useful for you. Except for this kind of thing. www.backcountryedge.com/videos/how-to-measure-your-torso-for-backpack-fitting |
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