The most innovative backpack in this year’s backpacking gear test wasn’t from an up-and-coming cottage gear company, but from a decades-old company out of New Zealand, Aarn. Where most backpacking ...

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See enough ultralight backpackers deep in the backcountry with nonexistent hip belts on their frameless 30L packs and you eventually start to wonder: Should I be doing that? But if you’re used to a ...