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Show me your empty 60 L ZPacks Arc [Zip/Blast]

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PostedSep 20, 2015 at 6:40 pm

Hey BPL! So I'm about to pull the trigger on a monster ZPacks order, but one thing I haven't been able to find is what the current [62 L] Arc Zip looks like when it's worn completely empty and compressed. Why would I want to see it this way? Well, I'm considering using it as my "one bag" of sorts, for hiking, air travel, and commuting (with a laptop, layers/rain protection, snacks, odds/ends—so almost empty, meaning it would only work if the pack can be cinched-down really small, as I don't want to be walking around town with a ridiculously large-but-flacid pack). So if it isn't too much trouble to ask of you Arc Zip owners in-da-house, would you mind sharing pics of you wearing the almost-empty, cinched-down pack with the world? Much appreciated.

JP BPL Member
PostedSep 22, 2015 at 4:43 am

Why not ask Zpacks to take a picture?

PostedSep 22, 2015 at 1:03 pm

Yup, already did. Joe's away at the moment, but said he would as soon as he's back; will share it here once I hear back from him. But one can get a pretty good idea of what the pack looks like empty from his Arc Blast video, which he pointed out—stupidly, I was so focused on the Zip that I missed that.

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PostedSep 22, 2015 at 1:54 pm

ok, I think this might be the strangest request about the Arc Zip since I announced it being released 14 months ago… but, here ya go! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y95lr8C8n-4 Please note these two things: (1) this is the final prototype, so the pack is not 100% exactly like what they sale… however, it is close enough (2) the ZPacks Patented Flexed Arc Frame is NOT flexed within this video… probably should have, but I did not even think about that until after I shot the video and got back into the house… and, I am willing to admit that a fair number of the thousands of miles I have with an Flexed Arc Frame backpack I have used it without having it flexed. As I tend to see it (my logic could be wrong, but, I will let others argue this one to death) unless you really need to have it flexed, you will have (it would seem) a better shoulder-to-waist weight distribution by having it straight down and not flexed. Anyway, Jorge, hope this video answers whatever it is you were wanting to see.

PostedSep 22, 2015 at 7:09 pm

Ha! Awesome John, thanks! This is way more than I expected, and yes, answers my all my questions (and then some).

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