[Cav]

What is your favorite/trusted backpack for travel or bugout? Not a rucksack that is huge and stay in a closet or garage, but a backpack you use regularly, that you travel with and take with you

For me it has been a Spec Ops T.H.E. Pack, that I have used for about the past 20 years, from combat to natural disaster, from traveling to vacations, this pack has gone around the world with me, and has been adaptable to my needs. I trust it with my life.

Did this video going over my favorite backpack.

 

[Orive 8]

A few years back I picked up one of the 5.11 RUSH MOAB 10 sling pack for my everyday use bag. It has really worked well for me. I did add the 5.11 H2O carrier to it.

 

[Jonny Yuma]

65 liter Osprey Atmos. Easily carries everything I need for a week plus fishing gear.

 

[JasonC8301]

OIF II (phantom fury) and beyond was the same as you Spec OPS THE pack. During the Iraq invasion I had a North Face backpack. Its hanging somewhere in their HQ I hope. It took a round and split in half. Dumped my med kit and spare ammo all over the place before the CO told me to get behind cover and not trying to pick everything up LoL.

 

[Syclone0538]

REI 40. I only use it for day hikes, 5-15 miles. It's bigger than actually needed for that, but I like it.

Belt pockets zip and unzip easy, and I have no trouble getting drinks in and out of the side pockets while it's on... as opposed to some others.

 

[Matteo1371]

What is your favorite/trusted backpack for travel or bugout

Not for travel but for camping/hiking and whatnot I still prefer the ole ALICE pack. Something simplistic about a top loading pack.

 

[Dragula426]

Death Dealer Tactical

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Life Time Warranty and made by Veterens

 

[The Night Rider]

Camelback H.A.W.G.



Specs
19"H x 10.5"W x 10.2"D

Weight: 31.04 oz.

Capacity: 23L

Fits 17"-21" torsos

Fits 28"-46" waist/hips

I bought this as a replacement for my Camelbak Rally Pack. Primarily because my rally pack is over 20 years old and it was just a little bit too small for all the stuff I was carrying. Plus this new one has a 3 l water bottle in it which means I don't go through the hassle of filtering water just for a Day hike in Cheyenne Canyon.

I make a specific point of carrying it out here.

This topic came up on another forum. One of the participants mentioned a friend of his who apparently had a plate carrier and an ALICE pack and a Kevlar and M1A in the trunk of his car and that was his Get Home Bag.

The problem, according to the poster was the guy was at least 50 lb overweight and it was very doubtful that he could move all that equipment from the trunk of his car to the edge of the parking lot.

Hearing that story really made me stop and think and that's why I make a very specific point of getting out here in the woods and carrying that pack up and down those mountains

 

[The Night Rider]

Death Dealer Tactical

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Nice advertisement. Now tell us about your actual experience with the pack

 

[Matteo1371]

This topic came up on another forum. One of the participants mentioned a friend of his who apparently had a plate carrier and an ALICE pack and a Kevlar and M1A in the trunk of his car and that was his Get Home Bag.

Depending on how much weight was stuffed into that ALICE pack it “might” have been do-able. Most people have a tendency to over pack and underestimate carrying weight over distance. It’s not uncommon to see gear shed at or near the halfway point of some trails. Always brings a smile to my face when I see it though.

 

[The Night Rider]

Depending on how much weight was stuffed into that ALICE pack it “might” have been do-able.

I wouldn't know I never saw the pack or the guy who was supposed to be carrying it.

However, the lesson was most emphatically not lost on me.

Most people have a tendency to over pack and underestimate carrying weight over distance. It’s not uncommon to see gear shed at or near the halfway point of some trails. Always brings a smile to my face when I see it though.

Minus water my pack weighs 22 lb.

Tomorrow morning I'm going to start at the Red Dot and Follow the yellow trail up to where it intersects the black trail.

Then I will follow the black trail to the number One.

From there I'm going to follow the blue dots up over the Ridge and back down the other side of the ridge to the St Mary's Falls Trail.

Then I'll go back to the black dot by the "T" and follow the road to the second black dot and back down.

 

[Syclone0538]

I wouldn't know I never saw the pack or the guy who was supposed to be carrying it.

However, the lesson was most emphatically not lost on me.



Minus water my pack weighs 22 lb.

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Tomorrow morning I'm going to start at the Red Dot and Follow the yellow trail up to where it intersects the black trail.

Then I will follow the black trail to the number One.

From there I'm going to follow the blue dots up over the Ridge and back down the other side of the ridge to the St Mary's Falls Trail.

Then I'll go back to the black dot by the "T" and follow the road to the second black dot and back down.

How much higher elevation is that than where you live? Has elevation been a problem to get used to?

 

[Julius Seizure]

Vertx Gamut backpack.

It’s especially nice if the whole family is going and I can carry gear for the crew. It takes a shoulder fired package really well too if I’m so inclined and had spots for an SBR with mags or a larger framed pistol and mags. Extremely well constructed and lightweight, they don’t give them away though…

Vertx Gamut Backpack

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If just around town, I carry my “baby Bertha”…I take it everywhere with me and use it as a man bag. Great pockets for a pistol and extra mags.

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[Julius Seizure]

I wouldn't know I never saw the pack or the guy who was supposed to be carrying it.

However, the lesson was most emphatically not lost on me.



Minus water my pack weighs 22 lb.

View attachment 1234967
Tomorrow morning I'm going to start at the Red Dot and Follow the yellow trail up to where it intersects the black trail.

Then I will follow the black trail to the number One.

From there I'm going to follow the blue dots up over the Ridge and back down the other side of the ridge to the St Mary's Falls Trail.

Then I'll go back to the black dot by the "T" and follow the road to the second black dot and back down.

You’re in my old backyard, that’s north Cheyenne cañon park if I’m not mistaken. I grew up in C.Springs, know that area like the back of my hand.
Beautiful country…7 Falls was my playground as a kid

 

[Julius Seizure]

How much higher elevation is that than where you live? Has elevation been a problem to get used to?

The city sits at about 6,000 feet. That area (as seen on the topo) goes up to 8500 or so, but right down that range is a 14,000 mountain (Pikes Peak)

sorry for the derail Cav 🙏🏼

 

[D20]

I'm not sure that it gets any better than a standard US issued Assault Pack. They are rugged, extremely durable, has many pockets, and other features for mounting things on the outside of it.

They can be dyed at home to go gray man.

If anyone likes another backpack over an Assualt Pack, I'd love to know.

 

[The Night Rider]

7 Falls was my playground as a kid

Seven Falls was purchased by the Broadmoor it is now closed to the public. It's 18 bucks to go to the falls now

Or you can go up on Mount Cutler

 

[The Night Rider]

How much higher elevation is that than where you live?

1800 feet.

Has elevation been a problem to get used to?

I came here from Fort Lewis in 1992. I was in the best shape I was ever in my life. I didn't think I'd have any problems at Fort Carson. The first day we went out for PT we took off on a company run and I got a block and a half and I was on the ground gasping. I remember looking at my squad leader and saying "My God there's no air here."

Five or six years later I went home to visit my family in Omaha and I remember getting off the airplane and up with the airfields and thinking to myself "My God there's too much air here."



That's the mountain I'm going over. I'm going to go straight up over the top and straight down so I'm sure I'm going to be breathing a little bit heavy.

 

[tercel89]

S.O.E in Camden Tn . John Willis makes packs that will last and stands behind them.

 

[The Night Rider]

Before it became such a massive pain in the ass and they started requiring reservations and you had to park on the other side of town and take the bus to get there I used to walk up this three times a week



It's called the Manitou incline.

I used to hike up to the top and then run down bar trail to the bottom. A bunch of guys from 10th group used to do it everyday for PT. I was doing it once and the same guy passed me twice he went up to the top ran down went up to the top again and ran down in the time it took me to get to the top once.

I was having to talk with the guy I used to work with one night about the incline. We had to go up and down stairs all night long for our job and I mentioned that since I started doing the incline I didn't even notice them. As we had our discussion one or the other of us said doing the Incline never gets easy but everything else does.

Hiking those Hills with that pack on never gets easy but everything I do down here in the real world does