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Question about the $180 backpack I bought in Bozeman and what the guy at the counter told me
I was at a shop in Bozeman last month and the guy at the counter said something that stuck with me. He told me he sold more packs to people returning the ultralight one they bought online because it rubbed their shoulders raw. I had been about to drop $300 on a 2 pound pack but he handed me a $180 one that weighed almost 3 pounds and let me walk around the block with 25 pounds in it. Turns out the extra pound of padding meant I could actually carry my gear past mile 7 without stopping. Has anyone else had a shop talk them down in price and weight like that?
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ray_webb68d ago
The part about the extra pound of padding isn't quite right. A pound is a pound no matter where it sits in your pack, so 3 pounds versus 2 pounds is still one more pound on your back either way. What the shop guy actually did was move that weight off your shoulders, since a good hip belt transfers the load to your hips where your body can handle it way better. My first pack had almost no padding and a thin belt, and 25 pounds felt like 40 by mile 5. So the real fix was the frame and belt, not the padding itself.
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