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By wi.jason from WI on 04/15/2009 Pros: Comfortable, Easy To Load, Good padding, Highly Adjustable, Large capacity, Lightweight Best Uses: Backpacking, Day trip Describe Yourself: Casual Adventurer What Is Your Gear Style: Comfort Driven Bottom Line: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend Comments: Great pack for the price. Very happy with my purchase.
By Historically Speaking from Dallas, Tx on 04/11/2009 Pros: Comfortable, Easy To Load, Lightweight Best Uses: Day trip, Hiking Describe Yourself: Casual Adventurer What Is Your Gear Style: Minimalist Bottom Line: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend Comments: It is a comfortable pack. The front pocket can be used for maps, canteens or something light.
By Stuck in Boston from Boston, Ma on 03/24/2009 Pros: Comfortable, Good padding, Highly Adjustable, Lightweight Best Uses: Backpacking, Day trip, Hiking Describe Yourself: Casual Adventurer What Is Your Gear Style: Comfort Driven Bottom Line: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend Comments: Like others had mentioned, the zippers sort of suck. If you can get past that, it is a really good-looking, functional, overall sweet bag.
By hippie_rn from denver,co on 03/19/2009 Pros: Comfortable, Easy To Load, Good padding, Highly Adjustable Best Uses: Backpacking, Day trip Describe Yourself: Avid Adventurer What Is Your Gear Style: Comfort Driven Bottom Line: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend Comments: quality pack, and a great buy.
plenty of pockets for organization. plus great design for outside storage, theres pockets for tent poles, and large cinches for a pad/jacket/shell. appears to be built well. can be compressed for smaller loads also.
By Ski2Liv from Rochester, NY on 03/18/2009 Pros: Comfortable, Easy To Load, Good padding, Highly Adjustable, Large capacity Best Uses: Day trip, Hiking Describe Yourself: Avid Adventurer What Is Your Gear Style: Comfort Driven Bottom Line: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend Comments: I had used a JanSport daypack for the last 10 years that easily packed in to my internal frame and was great for day hiking once I'd established a base camp. However, life doesn't allow for as many backpack trips as it does day hikes and the old JanSport wasn't cutting it anymore. The Mountainsmith Approach 3.0 is a great daypack for when you need to carry winter trekking loads or loads to support groups. Very comfortable and larger then your average daypack. Great pack...I would highly reccomend it!
By Jamnmac from North Bend, WA on 02/26/2009 Pros: Comfortable, Easy To Load, Good padding, Highly Adjustable, Large capacity, Lightweight Describe Yourself: Avid Adventurer What Is Your Gear Style: Comfort Driven Bottom Line: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend Comments: Really a great product! Fits great ( i am 6'5")and I very much appreciate the value, fit and versatility. I am a gear head and price did not matter, although STP rocks. This pack fits, and is very functional! Highly recommend! Many pockets are what I hgot and what I was looking for!
By bonbon from ny on 02/24/2009 Pros: Comfortable, Easy To Load, Good padding, Highly Adjustable, Large capacity, Lightweight Best Uses: Backpacking, Car Camping, Day trip, Hiking Describe Yourself: Casual Adventurer What Is Your Gear Style: Comfort Driven Bottom Line: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend Comments: good product, well priced
Good features . . . stiff zippers By The Billygoat from Winchester, KY on 02/14/2009 Cons: Insufficient Padding Describe Yourself: Casual Adventurer What Is Your Gear Style: Minimalist Bottom Line: No, I would not recommend this to a friend Comments: I needed a new pack to do double duty for family outings as well as solo trips. The most important features were good (comfortable) load bearing ability, compression straps to tighten a lightly loaded pack and capacity.
I narrowed my search down to this pack and a Kelty Redwing 3100 and ordered both to compare side by side using the same loads. Although the Kelty had an obvious capacity advantage, the Mountainsmith had more features by a long shot.
What turned me off about the Mtnsmith was that the pad at the bottom of the back panel dug into my lower back and the zippers were very testy and did not operate smoothly at all.
After all was said and done, the Kelty won on the basis of capacity and comfort (and Kelty's zippers operated smoothly - as zippers should).
By Back Country Dave from Park City, Utah on 02/05/2009 Pros: Carried my wide Telemark, Comfortable, Easy To Load, Good padding, Highly Adjustable, Large capacity Best Uses: Day trip, Hiking Describe Yourself: Avid Adventurer What Is Your Gear Style: Comfort Driven Bottom Line: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend Comments: I carried my telemark skis no problem. So far I'm very happy. I need to see how it wears with heavy use. We'll see.
Great Pack for Dayhiking/Overnight By gorge_medic from KY on 11/25/2008 Pros: Comfortable, Easy To Load, Highly Adjustable Cons: Insufficient Padding Best Uses: Day trip, Hiking Describe Yourself: Avid Adventurer What Is Your Gear Style: Minimalist Bottom Line: Yes, I would recommend this to a friend Comments: My Approach does double-duty as my main pack for dayhiking, and also as my 24-hour SAR pack. I am consistently impressed by how much gear I can stuff in it. Essentials, plus a beefed-up medical kit, overnight shelter, food for two and rope rescue hardware? No sweat. The pack has a well-designed front pocket with mesh for holding those essentials that get lost easily in a big compartment(headlamp,compass, etc.)and the side pockets with pass-thru and mesh side bottom pockets work great for cramming some other stuff in there. I'm sure I overweight the suspension, but it holds up very well through cross-country travel on SAR teams, or for my normal bushwhacking activities. My only complaint is the hipbelt; it's definitely wide enough, but has too little padding for my preferences. Overall, this is a solid pack that has served my needs very well, and probably will do the same for you.
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