Top 5: Best Active Backpacks 2020

What could be cooler for an outdoorsman than reviewing the top 5 Active Backpacks of the year? Sounds fun, right? But before we start let’s define what an active backpack actually is. Well, to me it’s the one I grab when going outdoors hiking, climbing, skiing, canoeing, mountaineering, camping and more – an extremely diverse category. Some packs are more versatile, some designed for a specific activity, which is not always possible to test easily (like ice climbing in August). But anyway I thought there would be no better way to test them all than by taking each of them on at least one full-day hike in the backcountry… and so I did. So let’s go one by one, and find out what makes them so special, starting from the most compact and going up in volume.