BACKPACKS

A backpack (also called rucksack, knapsack, packsack, pack, or Bergen) is, in its simplest form, a cloth sack carried on one's back and secured with two straps that go over the shoulders, but there can be exceptions. Light weight types of backpacks are sometimes worn on only one shoulder strap.Panel-Loading: The main cargo compartments of a panel-loader open wide with curved access zippers, This design makes this type easier to pack than a top-loader. Finding the widget of your immediate need may still require a little digging, but you can usually locate it more quickly in a panel-loader. A panel-loader has to be angled or laid down to load, and for durability's sake, the zippers should be heavy-gauge coils backed up with buckled compression straps. But for the most part, a panel-loader is plenty durable, easier to load, and almost as weather-proof as any top-loader, especially since you'd use a raincover with each style. Now that many packmakers have adopted high-volume hybrid top-load/panel-load bag designs, you can have it either way.

Backpacks are often preferred to handbags for carrying heavy loads, because of the limited capacity to carry heavy weights for long periods of time in the hands. Large backpacks, used to carry loads over 10 kg (22 lbs), usually offload the largest part (up to about 90%) of their weight onto padded hip belts, leaving the shoulder straps mainly for stabilising the load. This improves the potential to carry heavy loads, as the hips are stronger than the shoulders, and also increases agility and balance, since the load rides nearer the person's own center of mass.

In ancient times, the backpack was used as a means to carry the hunter's larger game and other types of prey as a way of easier transport. In the cases of larger hunts, the hunters would dismember their prey and distribute the pieces of the animal around, each one packing the meat into many wrappings and then into bags which they placed on to their backs. The bag itself was made up of different animal hide and skin (depending on what sorts of animals were in the area) and sewn together by the intestines of said animals, which were woven together tightly to make a sturdy thread-like material.[citation needed]

Whether you’re scaling that mountain you’ve had your eye on, taking a back trail you’ve never seen before, or wading through waist-high tallgrass as far as the eye can see, you know you’ll have the supplies to stay outside for a while packed securely in your Coleman® backpack.

We’ve got a top lid that converts easily into a lumbar pack. Waterproof zippers, ice axe loops, and packs with capacities up to 4400 cubic inches all means you get to take more gear, and that your gear will be better protected.

You may want to shed urban life for a few hours, but you won’t want Coleman® to get off your back!