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Serious backpack question

onestringer

onestringer

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I have been using a badlands pursuit pack for year, its a great pack. It does not have a hip belt, I have a couple of other badlands packs with the hip belt but I can't get them to work properly while wearing a saddle. I wear my saddle in and I have a pouch on each side, this requires me to buckle a hip belt around my belly. How do you fellas who wear saddles have pouches attached and have backpacks with hip belts work around this?
 
I wear my mantis around my hips, with pouches all around. I use the Horn Hunter G2, which has a hip belt. No conflict there. Never worn it with a Badlands pack, but seems to me the Badlands pack have a more aggressive (read thick/bulky) belt.

Along these lines, the pouches in the back have to be lower profile because if the backpack rests on the pouches it creates discomfort as it pulls on the saddle.
 
I quit wearing pouches on my saddles due to the added weight, sag, bounce while walking and annoyance of a hip belt pushing it down. Also like to wear the saddle in and usually wear it high with the waist belt of the pack lower/over the saddle or around belt height with the waist belt high/shoulder straps cinched up high, depending on which pack I’m using. A pack with a slim belt is where it’s at for me. I also carry sticks and have them secured at the top in a way that pulls the top of the sticks in and down which pulls the bottom of the sticks/pack away from my rear end, helping eliminate the bottom of the pack pushing down on the saddle, if that makes sense. I climb with a diy “sling” pack that carries everything i need for the climb in front of me so no need for pouches.



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