Osprey Stratos 24 Backpack, Shale Black, Large

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Price: $81.23 $79.16   

Product Feature

• Large panel access
• Single ice axe attachment
• 2x zippered mesh hipbelt pockets
• Volume: 1600cu in/26L Weight: 2lbs 9oz/1.15kg

Product Description

Reinvented and now incorporating our award winning AirSpeed suspension, the Stratos Series offers unparalled design and features in a ventilated daypack. These packs look and carry great, whatever your adventure. Also features 2 side mesh woven pockets wit InsideOut compression, upper side compression straps, integrated rain cover, stretch mesh backpanel, Stow-on-the-Go trekking pole attachment and zippered hipbelt pockets. Stratos harness (sewn-in spacer mesh) with bungee webbing for hydration routing and webbing adjustable sternum strap. Lightweight sewn-in spacer mesh harness and hipbelt offer zippered stretch mesh hipbelt pockets and ErgoPull hipbelt closure. Key fabrics: 210D double ripstop nylon and 420HD nylon pack cloth.

Osprey Stratos 24 Backpack, Shale Black, Large Review

This nice-sized daypack is solidly constructed, with much attention to detail, multiple small pockets, and an excellent ventilated panel that keeps your back from getting sweat-soaked. But, it can be a pain to get things out of the main compartment. I carried it for at least half-a-day, four days in a row.

All the attention to detail tells me this product was designed/tested by people who actually use daypacks. Things like the mini-pocket on the shoulder strap being at the exact right place where I could open it without contorting. The sturdy zippers that all have large pulls. The cinch straps that can be used for attaching lightweight items. The removable rain cover. Openings for the tube of a hydration pack.

And here's a big feature: the pack sits the same way on my back when full and loaded heavily, as when empty. I've never encountered such a balanced design on a small pack before.

More than once I found myself surprised that things worked the way I'd have designed them. "I don't want to carry this rain cover to the desert, I wish I could take it out-- oh wait, it detaches!".

But on the negative side: I wish the waist belt would detach too (I usually don't use it, why can't I leave it behind?).

The pack's shape is balanced on my back, but not when it's on the ground -- it doesn't stand upright when set down, either empty or full. So unless you carefully balance it (the curved shape puts the weight in a weird off-center spot), the pack may end up falling over into the water, or mud, or whatever else. I expect to take my daypack off regularly, so that's a hassle.

And the big negative: it should be easier to get things out of the main compartment of the pack. Even with the cinch straps loosened all the way, getting items out of the bottom of the pack is tedious-- they hang up on the material and on each other, because of the curved inside. Contents as commonplace as small SLR camera, a paperback book, and a bottle of water (with stuff loaded in the outside pockets, bottles in the drink holsters) are enough to make it a brief struggle each time I want to extract one of those items.

So, I dock one star for having to struggle with getting things in/out of the primary compartment, and the pack not standing upright on its own. A daypack implies to me usage during an activity (not through-hiking or backpacking), when you'll be stopping and accessing the pack regularly. Making this process cumbersome seems out of place on an otherwise stellar design.

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