What is the best travel pack?
What features are important when deciding on which one to spend your hard earned dollars on?
Is there a good compromise between a suitcase and a backpack?
Why the need for a travel pack?
We plan to travel a bit in the next few years – e.g. Cambodia in late August for three weeks
The way we plan to travel i.e. backpacking, lends itself to a rucksack rather than a suitcase
Suitcases are not easy to drag around and having your hands free is a bonus.
We might want to do some short (2-3 day walks) and are willing to compromise on pack weight and harness quality.
We got some great feedback from Ian on a recent article – Gear ideas for a wilderness hiking trip where Larry Hamilton shared some of his observations on the type of gear he used on a trip to the South Coast Track last year.
Ian raised an interesting point about the need / usefulness of modern gear compared with how he used to walk with mates in the 1980′s and 90s. In those days they made a lot of their own gear or improvised using what ever was at hand.
If you have been bushwalking for a while, do you think that gear has improved much since the 70′s, 80′s and 90′s?
Do you make your own gear or perform modifications to improve performance?
What is your favourite “old” piece of gear you still drag out and use on every trip?
