I bought this for the Via De La Plata, a 700 mile walk; this backpack did not even make it through the first week unscathed. By the third day the cheap metal frame was poking through the bottom of the bag so with every step I was being poked in the behind, so much so that after a week my pants had holes in them from the friction. As if that was not bad enough, the zippers to many of the pockets would come off in my hands as I tried to close the pockets. This bag was not overloaded and was not being aggressively used. This backpack is cheap, poorly designed and far from durable. Additionally, it is two inches too tall to qualify for a checked bag when flying. So on top of it poking me in the behind every step for 600+ miles, it cost me almost $300 to fly with. I left it in Spain.
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