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Women's Specific Climbing Packs
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I need a 45 to 50L pack. It must fit a rack, rope, and essentials. |
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ClimbLikeAGirl wrote: If you are super sick of doing long days in the mountains maybe your pack is not the problem. |
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I use a womens harness because I have a short rise and thick legs. People come in all shapes and sizes and gear manufacturers are trying to fit a "most" catagory - I recommend not getting caught up in the 'noted gender' of the product. Often women's specific gear is no different, only pink and more expensive. Try individual manufacturers, different models, all that stuff. It's just gear, what it looks like on the outside doesn't matter. One of my climbing partners is a woman who uses mens gear because she refuses to wear stuff that has weird flowery stitching or girly cuts, she just wants durable gear to climb in. If anything gear manufacturers could do better at marketing to women who just want to climb. |
Jaren Watson wrote: Some people never find the right equipment. Others always have it.There are probably more models of women's specific climbing packs today than there were climbing packs of any sort 30 years ago. How did anyone climb anything back then, with all that inferior and inadequate gear? |
ClimbLikeAGirl wrote: I need a 45 to 50L pack. It must fit a rack, rope, and essentials. I’m not sure what your personal gear is, but I can carry a rack, a rope, shoes, a jacket, some food, a helmet and have room left with my mutant 28.(I know it’s not gender specific , and wasn’t recommending it, rather using it as an example for size.) This is course means that the rope and helmets go on the outside in their appropriate strap attachments which you might not want(I prefer that way). Other than Alpine packs, I can’t think of many packs in the 45-50 L range that have gear loops, unisex or otherwise. Cold Cold World Ozone pack sounds almost like what you’re looking for, since you can customize you could ask for them to put a gear loop on it, and maybe the things that are necessary for it to be woman specific.(It’s also possible that they won’t be willing to customize it that much, the pack only comes in one size) |
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seems that when you get beyond 40L you are in backpacking territory and will have the overly large waist belt situation. Assume you are doing a lot of rope soloing to need that much volume, or else your partner is not taking their fare share. If going through a lot of tight trees that would snag a rope that was over the top/sides and just strapped in like usual on a crag/alpine pack perhaps a nylon rope wrap modification would help. I usually put the waist band under my harness and buckle behind the belay loop, I can generally use the front gear loops on the harness and use the waist belt loop for additional gear when climbing in the Millet pro lighter 30. Not too bothersome to climb in when needed and can generally get my half of the gear where I need to go. I do use a crag pack with back structure that's 20 years old when I won't need to carry over or more than a 15L up the climb. |
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Deuter guide 40+ sl “women’s” climbing specific great pack mines been abused in high alpine climbing ice and rock! Has place for skis and ice axes along with rope holder for summer it’s my go to pack for all climbing including bivvy overnights has room for a double rack rope shoes rope an about all the extras you wana bring |
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I came cross this post when deciding which crag pack to buy and would like to add a data point for Lowe Alpine Outcast 44. It's a crag pack so different from what OP wanted but I figure maybe someone else will be interested. The following is what I want from the pack. 1. Full zip for convenient access to gears inside so no top loading. 2. Big enough external pockets to put the shoes in to air out - this is very important to me, however I was not able to find any pack other than Trango Crag pack. 3. Enough space to carry the rope inside and food/drink/jackets. Organizing features are preferred. 4. Comfortable to carry. I have considered Cragsmith 45, DMM Flight, Mountain hardware Crag wagon 45, Mammut Neon, and Lowe Alpine Outcast 44. Finally chose the Outcast 44 over cragsmith because of the price. I just received the pack today and It felt comfortable with a 60m rope and some draws inside (TBD for long approach with heavier load). I'm 5'5, 125lbs with 20'' back length (according to the measure method on Rab website). I will keep the pack although I wish the side pockets are Trango style. |
Conghui Song wrote: Conghui--Would you mind reporting how it fits around the waist? I went through the same options you did, and also settled on the Cragsmith, only to discover that the size S/M is out of stock everywhere in the US (including ebay, etc.) All I can find that ships in the US are the size Large version. Do you feel like the size Large is a close enough fit? Thanks! :) |
HumanPerson wrote: I bought the outcast 44, not cragsmith. So I can’t comment. But the outcast 44 fits my waist. |
HumanPerson wrote: @HumanPerson I was lucky enough to buy my Cragsmith 45 S/M off of someone here on MP a few years ago. It sounds like we're a similar build and I'd say the shoulder straps on the S/M are just shy of being too wide for me. I would hesitate to buy a large for that reason. More in response to Conghui, I do find that the Cragsmith has super large side pockets that stretch to accommodate more than you'd expect, but glad you are happy with your purchase. I don't remember that brand even being an option when I was searching in 2019 |
