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North Fork pack first glance.
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Aug 31, 2010 at 1:03 pm #1262834
~130 liter, full VX-21 homemade four season multi-sport adventure pack.
Arc'teryx Bora shoulder straps (women's large, ebay'd).
Partially free-floating custom hipbelt with anatomic cut outs.
Full wrap gusseted back pocket, with drain holes and bungee closure, modular/removeable bottom compression strap.
Double bottom with drain grommets.
Drawstring closure, silnylon top skirt.
Frameless.
Ready for skiing, non-summer packrafting, winter hiking, and combinations of the above.
2 lbs, 5 oz.
Sep 1, 2010 at 6:52 pm #1642393130 liters is huge! What sort of suspension did you make? However you fill that its going to weight quite a bit.
Awesome work!
Sep 1, 2010 at 7:53 pm #1642412nice pack, you haven't shaved in FOREVER! does food get all stuck in that thing? Anybody who has a beard like that and makes their own packs, with a bow and arrow to kill intruders gets my respect.
Sep 1, 2010 at 7:56 pm #1642415That's not his pack. It's his shelter. David just climbs inside it at night.
Seriously though, nice work!
Sep 1, 2010 at 9:05 pm #1642437It's Montana, our facial hair standards are different. ;) No arrows in the house, but enough guns for my wife and I to have one in each hand when we shoot at you.
The pack is totally frameless. Structure will be provided by a folded ridgerest and packraft paddle shafts (if packrafting), or a rolled ridgerest (if skiing). The things that will take up so much space without weighing a ton are winter insulation and sleeping bag, packraft, drysuit, real (foam) PFD, and a helmet.
The pack is enormous. It's meant to swallow the above without being stuffed super full, which IME makes frameless packs carry poorly (they get too sausaged out). It won't be too hard to cut the collar down shorter if needed later on (it's 45" tall!).
Sep 2, 2010 at 12:18 pm #1642570Cavernous, but looks great! Did you run the Hardrock Hundred? Impressive!
Sep 2, 2010 at 12:34 pm #1642580I haven't done Hardrock yet, but plan to. Getting in is no mean feat!
Sep 15, 2010 at 12:35 pm #1645857WOW nice work man!
Dec 9, 2021 at 11:55 pm #3734386how did it work to use the packraft paddles as structure for the pack?
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