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Thread: Learn me about packs
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03-03-2014, 10:30 PM #1
Learn me about packs
Just getting into BC skiing. Got a sled, boards etc. but need a decent pack for day trips. Thinking 35-40L. Been using one of my hunting packs but it's not quite filling the bill. What do you use? Why? Name some good ones I should look out for, or, sell/trade me yours. FWIW I'm 5'11" 205lb with pretty broad shoulders and ski like a god.
LT
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03-03-2014, 11:37 PM #2
I use a mammut. But you should save your pennies and get a mystery ranch. They will make my next pack.
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03-04-2014, 12:15 AM #3Registered User
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Buy a Arcteryx Khamski 38, hopefully while on sale. Retail is silly. Comes in a large/long as well as a reg. Then immediately proceed to cut or delete the useless 13+ oz. of pack. Seriously. Was 49oz and is now a much better ski pack imo at 36 oz. It is a really nice ski pack when you are done. Takes all of 10 minutes. 8 minutes to figure out what you don't need. 2 to cut it all off.
Love mine.
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03-04-2014, 07:07 AM #4Registered User
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Airbag: Mystery Ranch Blackjack
Spring Touring: Alpine Threadworks"Alpine rock and steep, deep powder are what I seek, and I will always find solace there." - Bean Bowers
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03-04-2014, 10:23 AM #5Registered User
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I use an arcteryx bora 40 which is no longer made, its heavier but it carries lots of weigh no prob and it fits well
consider you need a decent suspension system if you ever need to carry your ski and you should see what pack actualy fits you
edit: missed the sled bit ....know phuck all about thatLast edited by XXX-er; 03-04-2014 at 11:10 AM.
Lee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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03-04-2014, 10:31 AM #6
If you have a sled, then I am wondering why you would want a pack >30L. I'm 184cm tall, and any of my 30+L packs that I wear (in a long frame) are in the way when on a sled for any distance, or on technical terrain. If you are using your sled as a staring point for most of your tours, I'd recommend a shorter/smaller pack that holds the basic needs, and then get a cargo pack/box for the sled to carry the extra stuff.
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03-04-2014, 01:47 PM #7
If you ski in avy terrain get an airbag pack. And 35-40 l seems on the large side for day skis, I think 30 l is fine.
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03-04-2014, 01:52 PM #8
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03-04-2014, 01:59 PM #9
No need to lug around a sled any longer as this sled attaches right to your butt !
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03-05-2014, 11:36 PM #10
My wife got me this one for spring tours. . . lightweight, made in downtown Los Angeles, the Grindelwald of Southern California. . .
Saddlebags, one for bourbon and one for scotch. You can take the bitters out of the toolkit and fit a 3 foot probe in there, for extremely shallow avalanches. Of course, the bitters are probably more useful."Buy the Fucking Plane Tickets!"
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03-05-2014, 11:54 PM #11Hugh Conway Guest
ahh bobshorts. I remember receiving them as a Christmas present. Visions of super speed down the hill post unwrapping. Donning them, climbing up the hill with a diaper like waddle, then descending with the sweet feel of a snow enema. thus birthed my hatred of marketing.
Hello Kitty makes some sweet packs.
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03-06-2014, 07:22 PM #12
Hugh,
Had a Hello Kitty pack but it shit the bed in a break dancing accident.
The sled is a starting point for getting out to the places to heave my fat ass up the hills. Will get a box for the sled after I get my new rack built but I will also put the pack(s) on the rack while on the sled.
FUCK ME, just googled Mystery Ranch. Pack would cost more than I paid for my sled! My inner Jew won't allow me to pay that much for a pack. Anything from the Eddie Bauer first ascent line worth three squirts of piss? I have a big credit with them. More suggestions please
LT
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03-06-2014, 07:33 PM #13Hugh Conway Guest
First Ascent's worth a whole golden shower dude, not just squirts. Maybe something from the Klavern line?
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03-06-2014, 07:37 PM #14
Did you ask your outer jew? Sometimes they are more lax with the money
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03-06-2014, 10:43 PM #15
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03-07-2014, 04:50 AM #16
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03-07-2014, 12:42 PM #17
I've got an older model snowpulse airbag pack, new with tags (never used, duh?).
It's got the base unit and 3 zip on packs (15L, 30L and 45L).
Let me know if you'd be interested.Aggressive in my own mind
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03-07-2014, 02:54 PM #18
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03-08-2014, 12:42 AM #20
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