Great Walks

ZIP IT!

can still hear the words of my old bushwalking mentor ringing in my ears. “Never buy a pack with a zipper”. That philosophy was based upon two fundamentals of traditional pack mentality, being water ingress and weight. Standard zippers by their very design, allow water to pass between their interlocking teeth and due to their metal or plastic

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