Trecking Pack Recommendations?

Quoted message said:

I have been looking at the Akamas 65+10 Berghaus sack
berghaus.comindex.aspOpen ↗ , has
anyone any experience of this? If so any comments are
extremely welcome! Any alternatives I should look for, or
features I should consider?

That's the very sack I've just bought and used for the first
time this week.

It's okay, it's got just about everything you could want, I
think. There's zipped pockets inside and out of the top lid,
zipped access to the main compartment from the front, a
separate compartment in the base which just about takes my
A*gos tent and sleeping mat. It's got a wide hip belt which,
if you set it up right (I didn't at first and I've got
shoulder bruises to prove it) offers loads of support, and
it's even got a couple of twirly bits of string on the front
that slide in and out of two plastic clasps - no idea what
they are for but if you want twirly bits you've got them
with this sack. There are two side compartments (the +10
bit) with fairly short zips which caused problems getting in
them for a 1ltr drink bottle and it's also got a rain cover
that hides away in a little slit beneath the lid.

I think you'd call it fully featured.

This is my first largish sack all my others (don't ask!)
being day sacks so I can't compare it to anything else on
the market, but it seems quite adequate.

--
Dave Newton

Lake District walk&image site daves-lakeland-daves-lakeland-Open ↗
mountains.co.uk

Ian MacDougall said:

I am thinking of Knoydart... does this area tend to get
busy with many people....

The Forge in Inverie gets busy, it's pretty empty
otherwise. People go there, but it's isolated and easy
enough to get solitude.

Quoted message said:

I have been looking at the Akamas 65+10 Berghaus sack
berghaus.comindex.aspOpen ↗ , has
anyone any experience of this? If so any comments are
extremely welcome! Any alternatives I should look for, or
features I should consider?

Don't look, try. Find a good representative weight (gear
shops are, after all, full of the stuff you'd take so just
take it off the shelves and put it in if you don't take your
own), load up the sack and all the competition for it you
can find and see if any are more comfortable for you than
others. If they are, that's your new rucksack.

For features, have a look at
personal.dundee.ac.ukpacks.htmOpen ↗

Pete.
--
Peter Clinch University of Dundee Tel 44 1382 660111 ext.
33637 Medical Physics, Ninewells Hospital Fax 44 1382 640177
Dundee DD1 9SY Scotland UK net [email hidden]
dundee.ac.uk~pjclinchOpen ↗

In message <[email hidden]>,
SteveOrrell@?.?.invalid writes

Quoted message said:

Ian MacDougall said:

I tried on just about every sack they had 50L and up and
decided on the Berghaus Akamas. It has great back support,
and lots of nice wee pockets 🙂

I am of course presuming that the back support is good....

...and of course, all those pockets, some might say
"nightmare" can never find anything, never remember what
I've put where, mutter, mumble. Not that I'm sowing the
seeds or owt ;-)

Mmm.. Different folk, different feel. I like pockets. But I
do adopt a very standardised packing routine. For
instance, Mars Bars are always in the roof pocket.

--
Michael Farthing cyclades Software House

"Peter Clinch" <[email hidden]> wrote

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The Forge in Inverie gets busy, it's pretty empty
otherwise. People go there, but it's isolated and easy
enough to get solitude.

I probably saw more people in Knoydart than I did anywhere
else on a trip around Scotland last summer. (Except for
William). Didn't get any of the much touted "wilderness"
feel at all.

"Peter Clinch" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
"]news:[email hidden]...

Quoted message said:

Ian MacDougall said:

I am thinking of Knoydart... does this area tend to get
busy with many people....

The Forge in Inverie gets busy, it's pretty empty
otherwise. People go there, but it's isolated and easy
enough to get solitude.

I'm trying to get accomodation for June, at the moment the
places in Inverie I've tried are booked up! I'll phone a
couple tomorrow.

KRO

AndyP said:

"Peter Clinch" <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

The Forge in Inverie gets busy, it's pretty empty
otherwise. People go there, but it's isolated and easy
enough to get solitude.

I probably saw more people in Knoydart than I did anywhere
else on a trip around Scotland last summer. (Except for
William). Didn't get any of the much touted "wilderness"
feel at all.

You want wilderness? Go where there are no Munros :-)
--
Phil Cook looking north over the park to the
"Westminster Gasworks"
95/284 5/219 c.100/300 (>900m with drop>100m )

Thanks for all the help

I tried on just about every sack they had 50L and up and
decided on the Berghaus Akamas. It has great back support,
and lots of nice wee pockets 🙂

I am of course presuming that the back support is good.... I
will let you know if otherwise after the 1st treck has been
completed!

Thanks again,

Ian!!

"Phil Cook" <[email hidden]>
wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

AndyP said:

"Peter Clinch" <[email hidden]> wrote

Quoted message said:

The Forge in Inverie gets busy, it's pretty empty
otherwise. People go there, but it's isolated and easy
enough to get solitude.

I probably saw more people in Knoydart than I did
anywhere else on a trip around Scotland last summer.
(Except for William). Didn't get any of

the

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

much touted "wilderness" feel at all.

You want wilderness? Go where there are no Munros :-)
--
Phil Cook looking north over the park to the "Westminster
Gasworks"
95/284 5/219 c.100/300 (>900m with drop>100m )

Ian MacDougall said:

I tried on just about every sack they had 50L and up and
decided on the Berghaus Akamas. It has great back support,
and lots of nice wee pockets 🙂

I am of course presuming that the back support is good....

...and of course, all those pockets, some might say
"nightmare" can never find anything, never remember what
I've put where, mutter, mumble. Not that I'm sowing the
seeds or owt ;-)

SteveO

NE Climbers & walkers chat forum;
thenmc.org.ukindex.phpOpen ↗

NMC website: thenmc.org.ukthenmc.org.ukOpen ↗

On 28/5/04 7:22 am, in article [email hidden],

Steve Orrell' Steve Orrell said:

Ian MacDougall said:

I tried on just about every sack they had 50L and up and
decided on the Berghaus Akamas. It has great back
support, and lots of nice wee pockets 🙂

I am of course presuming that the back support is
good....

...and of course, all those pockets, some might say
"nightmare" can never find anything, never remember what
I've put where, mutter, mumble. Not that I'm sowing the
seeds or owt ;-)

Must admit - that was my first reaction !

--
Andy Howell Birmingham, UK