Year of the Pig Snout
Heritage has flooded the world with pig snouts. The little leather lash tabs are everywhere, with most users not even knowing what they are for. So we figured it would be fun to have a look at the basics of lash tabs, and share a few examples of them.
White Mountaineering.
The classic lash tab was a leather patch that let’s you pass a bit of webbing through it, and then fasten items to your pack. It let’s you run a minimal weight, with broad flexibility. The outdoor crew soon started making them from hypalon and plastics and all sorts of tech, but with the return to all things grandpa, leather (and imitation leather) is once again the material of choice.
They can be run with vertical slots (pig nose), horizontal slots (letterboxes), or 4 way slots (windows).
Topo Designs
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Porter
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Up There
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Beams Plus x Kelty Vintage
And of course their are variations to the pig snout look. Here’s a couple…
Rivendell Mountain Works
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Leather
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thank you, now i know..
got a blk pine workshop daypack.
and this is why carryology rocks. where else would such a minor element of carry be dissected with such passion
Pig Snouts .. nice! Just like killa cam, I too now know what those leathery patches are all about, Cheers
And do you know what the loops hanging off the bottom of the White Mountaineering are? Hint: It involves mountaineering
It is quite amusing that those loops are completely worthless without the additional strap in the pig snout, to hold the upper part of the mountaineering tool in question. And that strap is of course not included with these packs.
So the correct answer is:
On these packs; they are there to look cool. And they do the job quite well.
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