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Backpack reviews: The North Face Skareb 55

hiking4.jpgSo, you are dying to go hiking. You want a weekend to relax, see nature and maybe relieve some stress. You’re getting ready to pack, you look in your closet, and see a beat up, over used hiking bag that belongs in a garbage can somewhere. You sigh. Your trip requires something with a little more spaz. More haul. More power! Less work! You deserve better than that! You deserve TOP OF THE LINE!

The North Face Skareb 55 Backpack. Actually out of stock in many places, but if you look around you’ll find it for sure. This baby is loaded! The North Face 55 is is designed to offer optimal support and mobility with a lighter weight profile than competitor packs with fairly similar features and capacity. It’s a stylish, day pack design, with overnight potential.

The award-winning X-2 suspension design gives you the full load haul performance of heavier packs without the cumbersome suspension. Who engineers these things? NASA? The Skareb 55 has a direct-injection, no-slip lumbar pad zone that works well with the lightweight and active cut contoured hip belt (Extra support for the real hiker).

Also containing a rain cover in the left side pocket (rain cover included), this backpack’s capacity is 3,050 cubic inches in small, 3,350 cubic inches in medium, and 3,650 in large. Small is only two pounds, three ounces, medium comes in two pounds, fifteen ounces, and large is only three pounds, two ounces.

This North Face Skareb 55 Backpach has roll-top coverage, dual side compression, and Contains a water bottle keeper, storage rings for tools and climbing gear, and convenient quick-pull front cord compression system with dual side compression straps. The 55 gives you full haul load as the larger packs, but at a lighter weight, and many more features.

All backpack sizes are made from top, Ripstop nylon/Cordura nylon, for better performance and more durability. Don’t miss your chance to pick up this athlete-tested, ultimate backpack.

The only thing excluded is the hydration system, which many do not want anyways. No doubt, however, this is the pack for any serious hiker in love with the outdoors, as well as someone who wants and needs top of the line performance. When you need something done quick, efficient, and over the weekend, this is the backpack of multi-sported athletes. If it is good enough for them, it is definitely good enough for you. Whether is be a camping trip, or a weekend of sight seeing, enjoy it efficiently with The North Face Skared 55.

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