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Our favorite adventure buddies are strapped to our backs cheering us along while we get into all kinds of trouble. Check out our backpack reviews to make sure your adventure buddy is the right fit.
Topo Designs: Roll Top
This pack loves riding around town or heading into the mountains for a weekend camp trip. The Roll Top feature allows you to really pack it out when you need the capacity.
It’s water resistant.
The strap of webbing down the front is to secure extra gear. You can clip on a carabiner and attach a water bottle, camp hat, climbing shoes, headlamp, bike light, you name it.
Made in Colorado
$198.00
topodesigns.com
Will: Give Will
This pack wants to make the world good. It's strong enough to carry your hopes and dreams of being someone who votes with every purchase for social good, but it is also strong enough to carry about 532 strawberrys.
For every Give Will backpack purchased, Will Leather Goods donates that same bag to a child in need who attends public schools in the USA.
Made in China
$95
willleathergoods.com
Mokuyobi Threads: The Bedford
This pack loves the city life. It's a carry-on for your flight or a hike in the woods. The bright color versions are great for high-visibility biking in the city.
It's a three-way transformable backpack. The backpack straps unclip and tuck inside the back compartment. There's a hidden side strap that can be taken out and clipped so it can be worn as a messenger-style bag or it can simply be carried by the tote handles as a briefcase.
Made in California
$114
MokuyobiThreads.com
Chums: SINAWAVA 45 S
This pack is whistling Willy Wonka songs to you while you tightrope walk (slackline) between two giant boulders in Joshua Tree. When the sun goes down it’ll bust out a ukulele and play “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.”
Available exclusily at Without Walls.
Made in China
$274
withoutwalls.com
Pack NW: The Hobo Tote
This pack want to be your best buddy. The perfect grocery-beach-work-climbing-camping-
baby-travel-whatever bag.
Suspension system converts quickly & easily from one-shoulder tote-style carry to two-shoulder backpack-
style carry.
Fits a 35lb. blue heeler comfortably.
Made in Washington
$95
packnw.com
Tomahawk: Waylon
This pack rides shotgun in any pickup truck made before the 1980s. It's great for hauling mixtapes, Mexican soda pop bottles, arrowheads, pearl-snap cowboy shirts and everything else charished by uncles.
The straps are bridle leather lined with sheepskin for a little cushion.
Made in Oregon
$350
tomahawkportland.com
Herschel: Little America Backpack
This pack says, “Check out my cute acid-wash denim! White leather straps! Squeee!” It wants to go to the classroom, the streets, hot picnic dates and the art gallery. It wants you to have a crush on it.
It is fully lined with coated cotton-poly fabric, has a laptop sleeve pocket, and the leather straps have magnetic metal pin-clip closures.
Made in China
$159.99
herschelsupply.com
Red Clouds Collective: The Prescott
This pack wants to hug the hips of a curvy road on your motorcycle ride to the concert at the farm. It asks you, "What if you meet someone new tonight?" That's why you packed a blanket, a flask of whiskey, your tooth brush and some condoms. Be prepared.
Herman Oak vegetable-tanned leather and 10.10 waxed canvas with solid brass buckles. The interior fabric is 10 oz single-fill duck canvas with commercial water repellent so the bag and everything in it will stay safe and dry.
Made in Oregon
$285
redcloudscollective.com
Fjällräven: The Rucksack
This pack want to climb mountains just for the epic selfie!
A heavy-duty day hiker/overnighter built to last! If packed smart, you could easily use this for an overnight beach trip or into the hills.
Being a poly/cotton waxed canvas, the fabric on its own is water resistant but by waxing the fabric further, you can almost make it waterproof. The wax comes in a block which you just rub onto the fabric as lightly or as heavy as you want, and then you just melt it in with a blow-drier.
Made in Vietnam
$200
fjallraven.us
Mission Workshop: Arkiv Field Pack
This pack wants it all! It's freaky how customizable this modular industrial-strength pack is. Load it up with removable pockets for a trip around the planet or strip it down for a day at the hot springs.
Lifetime warranty.
Made in Colorado
$209
missionworkshop.com
Urban Barrels: The BagTowel
This pack want to fucking rage! It turns into a towel when you turn it inside out!
The pocket is made from old boat sails.
Fits a 12 pack.
Made in California
$50
urbanbarrels.com
Alite: Ochiba
This super colorful pack wants to go to Moab, Utah on your back. It wants to do some river hikes, watermelon hunting, rock-shop foraging and cave gazing.
Ochiba is a name for a Japanese Koi Fish.
Side-access zipper to padded laptop sleeve.
Made in the Philippines
$105
alitedesigns.com
Bridge & Burn: Pacific Standard
This mid-sized pack silently waits for a day hike. It's got room for a camera, water & snacks, and extra clothes. You'll need those extra clothes once you get back to the office from an epic lunch break spent picking berries in a misty muddy urban forest.
The fabric is waterproof. The construction of the pack is water resistant.
Made in Oregon
$264.00
bridgeandburn.com
Mountainsmith & Icelantic Skis: Collaboration
This pack begs for a day of skiing or riding around a resort looking for hot tubs and high-fives.
Icelantic approached Mountainsmith to create a pack for their 5280 Collection, a new line of apparel and gear. It has a lot of straps.
Made in Minnesota
$149
mountainsmith.com
Jbird Collective: The Techpack
This pack dares you to ride your motorcycle faster. Its 25liter interior allows you to throw a couple changes of clothes, an extra pair of shoes, a large nalgene and your toiletries without disorganizing your pens, notebooks, laptop and power cords.
Its Cobra buckle is manufactured using the highest grade aluminum alloy, brass and steel. They do not corrode, jam, crack or malfunction.
Made in Oregon
$280
jbirdcollective.com
Truce: Air Rescue
This pack wants to go to sea! It's made of coast guard rescue drysuit scraps salvaged and upcycled into one of the strongest backpacks the human race has ever seen.
Seam-sealed liners make it totally weatherproof.
Made in Oregon
$340
trucedesigns.com
Trakke: Krukke
This pack wants a soggy solo hike. Made of beautiful Harris Tweed in the Outer Hebrides by weavers working on their crofts (small farmsteads). Their looms are pedal powered, exactly like a bicycle, and the wool is all sourced from sheep local to Scotland.
Krukke is a Norwegian word meaning ‘container’ or ‘jar.’
Made in Scotland
$350
trakke.co.uk
Poler: The Field Pack
This pack wants to go on the everyday adventure to school or work, or up a tree to eat a double-scoop ice cream cone.
You can fill it with over 114,000,000 camp vibes!
Made in China
$50
polerstuff.com