The Nitron features a close-fitting vest-style harness with a mesh waist belt, designed to take the pressure off your ...

Luckily, with one of the best hiking backpacks over your shoulders, you’ll be more capable, comfortable, and confident on the trails than ever before. Your backpack is the control center of your ...

The Gossamer Grit 28L Fastpack is a near-perfect hybrid of a trail running vest and a lightweight hiking pack, offering just the right blend of comfort, function, and fast-moving performance.

The Red Lightweight Waterproof Backpack 22L is waterproof, lightweight and made to last, but is that enough to make it a ...

The Veil series of belts and hydration vests by Rab have been firm favourites in the RW office, with the 5L and 12L race pack being worn for many a race, so expectations were high for the Veil XP 30.

All but the smallest hiking backpacks we recommend below rely on an internal frame construction. Some compact daypacks (usually 20 liters or less) use a frameless construction similar to standard ...

CamelBak’s revolutionary idea to create on-the-go hydration was grounded in access, efficiency and speed. Those same values govern the design of the Octane 25, its new hydration backpack that blends ...

A backpack bearing 20 pounds of steel, a backpack open to however much you want to haul and a 20-pound weighted vest. The vest looks bulletproof, a genre of clothing I’ve never actually seen up ...

Rucking, the practice of walking (or hiking) with a weighted pack, is named after the military term for backpack: "rucksack," as carrying the weighted packs is a common military activity and exercise.