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The Third Annual Carry Awards :: Roundup
…NO Guitar Sleeve – Best Accessory Winner: Incase ICON Sleeve with Tensaerlite Highly Commended: Bellroy Elements Phone Pocket Highly Commended: Peak Design Slide Camera Strap – Hall of Fame Winner: CamelBak Hydration Backpack Highly Commended: BabyBjörn Highly Commended: Karrimor Whillans Alpiniste 1964…
Carry Awards VII: Giveaway of Champions!
…a range of loads. GORUCK GR1 Backpack We welcomed the GORUCK GR1 into our Hall of Fame this year. And it’s not hard to see why. No pack has a devoted following quite like this one. Its legendary toughness makes it a go-to option for everything from day hikes to overnight trips. The lay-flat opening makes packing and retrieving items quick and easy, with just enough pocketing to keep gear tidy but not forget where you stashed things. Rugged and ve…
Drive By :: Kriega R20
…, especially after I spilled the fact that they’d just joined Carryology’s Hall of Fame. If you missed it, Kriega was immortalised in carry history thanks to their awesome active harness. Their innovative shoulder strap design, unlike the common bushwalking harness, follows the ribcage and hugs the pack to your body, without then locking it to your hips. You can still bend and twist, and the pack will remain stable with your upper body, allowing t…
Arc’teryx Granville Zip 16 Backpack: Drive By
…as it is a card carrying and first ballet member of the Carryology Hall of Fame. This urethane-coated zipper took years of testing but has been a mainstay since its 1999 inception. I will also add that the Arc’teryx-branded custom zipper pulls are perfect. They look and feel great in the hand and are relatively quiet. I find quality zipper pulls are one of the most overlooked elements of packs and also one of the first things a user customizes (ge…
Carry Awards Final Nominations
…Hey guys, Below is the final list of bags, etc we’ve rounded up for the Carry Awards. Can you go thru and vote on who think deserves to be finalist for each category. Need top 5 for each category except Hall Of Fame. Pick your single winner there. Any questions, hit me up. Oh and don’t share this link it’s private for you guys only….
Fourth Annual Carry Awards :: Reader’s Choice Awards
…mmodate larger and smaller loads, and ultimately making their jobs easier. Hall of Fame: First MOLLE MOLLE changed the way the armed forces carry for the better. Replacing the previously used ALICE system, the first MOLLE system improved carry comfort and load distribution. In addition, a combination of modular equipment and PALS webbing offered users great flexibility to customize carry setups to different missions and needs. Best EDC: Bellroy Mi…
Third Annual Carry Awards :: Reader’s Choice Awards
…ther than keeping an eye on items that have no sense of self-preservation. Hall of Fame: Chrome Citizen Messenger Bag An icon in the world of bike bags, Chrome’s Citizen messenger has stood the test of time and in all likelihood will continue to do so for many years to come. Featuring Chrome’s trademark quick-release seatbelt buckle, the messenger boasts weatherproof construction, a stabilizer strap, reflective hits for increased visibility and pl…
The North Face HQ Visit
…ing. We re-enter the TNF building and make our way through long-stretching halls and conjoining staircases, each hall leading to different wings, each filled with busy RDD teams (there’s eight in total), cranking away at one of TNF’s many tiers (from Apparel to Summit and everything in-between), every inch of wall pinned with mood boards, fabric swatches, prototypes and grids of hanging bagged components, on route to have a closer look at the RDD…
Outdoor Retailer Summer 2016 :: Recap Part III
…this cause. Hopefully we can do a special piece on just the manufacturing challenges behind the Re-Kånken one day. Peak Design It’s no surprise we are big fans of Peak Design here at Carryology. Personally, I have been using their products (particularly the Capture Clip) since 2011 and I was extremely impressed with the Everyday Messenger that I reviewed almost a year ago. Now the SF crew is back on Kickstarter with four new bags. We actually came…
Berlin Muse carries the Crumpler Vis-à-Vis to Prague
…ixed for the mysterious Czech capital. Disembarking at the grungy terminal hall of Prague Hlavni Nadrazi station, an intense shaft of gravity-defying hair entered my periphery – Phil, still rocking his mohawk with pride, the lovely, accepting Pam ever by his side. The reunion with Pam and Phil was truly celebratory, Prague debaucherously dark, the streets surrounding our apartment tenebrous and sullied. It rained on those amber-lit nights as we lo…
The Outpost :: a New Kind of Trade Show
…arms up in the process. We were being led by the founder of Juniper Ridge, Hall Newbegin who insisted that our sense of smell was the most important and encouraged us to stick our noses to the top soil and take it all in. Throughout the weekend he foraged for local plants and with their mobile distilling rig, they bottled up some spray bottles. Talk about terroir. The rest of the day was spent barreling down the highway and desolate roads in a Ura…
GORUCK x Carryology GRXC3 Viking | Exclusive Release
…r elements: 1. It always includes the GR1 backpack: a Carry Awards Hall of Fame winner, an icon of carry, and a Carryology team and community favorite. 2. The project codename will always be based upon either a fictional warrior or warrior from history, which will then influence the design of the end product. 3. It will follow the sequential naming system of GRXC#. The first was the GRXC1 Guerrilla X. The second was the GRXC2 Samurai. Now… the…
GORUCK x Carryology GRXC3 Berserker Viking Collection
…r elements: 1. It always includes the GR1 backpack: a Carry Awards Hall of Fame winner, an icon of carry, and a Carryology team and community favorite. 2. The project codename will always be based upon either a fictional warrior or warrior from history, which will then influence the design of the end product. 3. It will follow the sequential naming system of GRXC#. The first was the GRXC1 Guerrilla X. The second was the GRXC2 Samurai. Now… the…
GORUCK x Carryology GRXC3 Berserker Viking | Exclusive Release
…r elements: 1. It always includes the GR1 backpack: a Carry Awards Hall of Fame winner, an icon of carry, and a Carryology team and community favorite. 2. The project codename will always be based upon either a fictional warrior or warrior from history, which will then influence the design of the end product. 3. It will follow the sequential naming system of GRXC#. The first was the GRXC1 Guerrilla X. The second was the GRXC2 Samurai. Now… the…
Through the Eyes of a Sherpa
…allows them to breathe more freely in high altitudes. Historically, their fame can be latched to a single moment: the day Sherpa and mountaineer Tenzing Norgay ascended by the side of Sir Edmund Hillary to the summit of Mount Everest in 1953 – an epic accomplishment framed by a single photograph: a bold black and white snap of Tenzing standing proudly atop Everest’s peak posing with his ice axe. That photograph would shortly after be stamped acro…
The Best in Waterproof: Explorers Club’s Flag Expedition & Underwater Research in Menorca Island
…tic changes in gear and bags. And a lot of waterproofing! Ciutadella City Hall and the harbor I got invited by Trevor Wallace, the Vice President for Research and Education of the venerable Explorers Club, to join the Menorca Shipwreck Project, a “Flag expedition” of the Club in the small Spanish island of Menorca on the Mediterranean Sea. This year the team also initiated the world’s first PADI speciality course in underwater archeology, and aft…
Berlin Muse :: Whipping Post in the South of France
…nd a breakfast of fresh pastry and cured meats in the Maison’s epic dining hall. The Palais was incredible, a truly immense statement of religious grandiosity, replete with cavernous halls, chapels, winding staircases and gothic turrets. It was boiling again the next day, so we fanged the Volvo out to the Pont du Gard, a monumental Roman aqueduct, the second-largest freestanding Roman-built structure next to the Colosseum. There, we drifted in the…
The Brilliance of bagjack
…glimpse another relic: a black and white photo on a filing cabinet in the hall – Pe and Vossi, their messenger posse, lined up on an early ‘90s Berlin street, eyes loaded with attitude. Pe grips the picture, smiles for the camera, black and white of the past a stark contrast to the lucid present. German philosopher Heinrich Heine once described Berlin as a city that never is, “for it is always becoming.” Fashioned from the chaotic rubble of 1989…
Outdoor Retailer Summer Market 2017 :: Recap Part I
…o through their new bag releases, high up above the Salt Palace convention hall floor, in their crow’s nest. It was one of the few reviews where we were seated and had relative privacy. We were shown a new tote that comes in two sizes as well as three bags celebrating the company’s history with Greenland. Totepack No. 4 comes in both wide and tall sizes and is a great everyday bag to haul groceries, baby gear, a yoga mat and clothes, or your lapto…
Outdoor Retailer Carry Awards :: Summer Market 2016
…nds in the outdoor industry, their booth anchors one end of the exhibition hall. Talk about menacing, both in stature and reputation. This year, we knew it was something big when we walked up to their booth and they only wanted to show us one thing. Sure, they had two or three other rooms full of gear including a line of great looking footwear, but they kept us focused on the new Bora AR. The story was the suspension that they were able to make ac…
Specialist Carry :: Cave Photographer
…g the very first trip underground inside a cave and realizing the immense challenges and enormous potential for great imagery that this dark, unforgiving and harsh environment offers. So it was here where the seed was sewn and the bug bit. I just had to take a camera into a cave and begin the very long process of what has been [so far] a 15-year obsession in making pictures of the underworld for all to see and to this day, I still believe there is…
Berlin Muse :: the ARCHIVAL Ranger Tan Waxed Twill Rucksack
…n north and turn left into the driveway at number ‘6’ to the rear carriage hall deep inside and up a flight of stairs. I would unlock another reinforced steel door and a studio where I’d sit in silence and write. I would make a pot of coffee and drink it and the hot caffeine buzz would wash through the front of my head. The studio was a space shared with a firm of young architects who were never there in the mornings, and a crew of visual artists…
A Carry Adventure through Portugal and its Heritage Artisan Leather Industry Part 1.
…n the mild air; Portuguese voices reverberated inside a corrugated factory hall. Then, a curt man in brogues and red cord shirt greeted us, eyes intent, almost fierce. Mr Martinho was his name. “There are no secrets,” he said. “We show you everything.” He led us inside a corrugated factory building where an industrial scudding machine was screaming full bore. The concrete ground was tar black, moist with scunge. I smelt a buttery slaughter smell,…
5 Minutes with Helinox TERG
…roduct, but there is this unique culture behind it. The DAC team has been challenging the limit of aluminum material and tent pole structure for the last 25 years. Ironically as a tent pole manufacturer, the DAC team tried to use less and lighter poles to create stronger tent structures. They kept pushing more and more for stronger, more durable and still lighter tent frames and ended up widely recognized as the best tent pole maker in the world….
Top 5 | Best EDC
…ctile Turn, the pen company that launched the small Texas company into EDC fame. Tactile Knife Co was created to build knives that Hodges and his employees wanted to carry. Practical and useful EDC items that work well in a variety of conditions. Acutely aware of the difficulties of launching a new knife design, not to mention a new company, during these times, Tactile Knife took the interesting approach of small batch production, starting with th…
What Is a Sling Bag? How the ‘Fanny Pack’ Became Popular Again
…g a staple of ’90s fashion (see: The Rock wearing a bum bag, proving their fame and that The Rock wasn’t always the bastion of cool he is now) and gay culture by way of gym culture. Then, of course, came the rejection. Neon fades and rollerblades break and, with them, fanny bags lost their lustre. Weird Al even made a joke about them, driving home the fact that the bags belong in the ’90s. The bags made a brief attempt at a comeback in the 2000s v…
Understanding Porter
…ey still do some amazing pieces and collaborations. Head Porter: This is the cooler sub brand, carried only in boutiques & high-end department stores. It was started by Susumu Hasegawa and Hiroshi Fujiwara (of Honeyee and iDiom fame). Like McDonalds Happy Meals, it keeps the brand connected and relevant to the youth. Hopefully that helps next time you see some bags called Porter, Head Porter or whatever name they run past you with the word Porter…
Cult Bags :: The Birth of the JanSport Superbreak
…keep moving forward. Douglas: Right. I know you’ve got to go through the challenges of just owning a business, selling a business, and you’ve been very fortunate to continue to be a part of the brand. I’m sure you could have checked out at any time that you wanted. But what kept you involved, and what was that driving force? And the second part of that question is, I’m sure there were some tough times especially in starting a new brand – what mad…
Road Tests :: Kifaru X-Ray
…ngs? Despite being versatile, the X-Ray won’t be for everyone. Its fairly shallow 12” depth is no-doubt designed to keep the bag’s load close to you instead of pulling backwards on your shoulders and back, but this lack of main-compartment depth may limit the amount of school-related stuff you can jam into the bag. Similarly, the X-Ray’s lack of dedicated features is great if you’re weird & obsessive about bags (sounds familiar…), but all those ac…
Road Tests :: Bagjack Next Level Messenger
…EUR (549,00 EUR as tested) Place of Manufacture: Berlin, Germany Claims to fame: converts from functional messenger bag to incognito office bag, lots of tech features The bag has 2 distinct modes, Messenger Mode & Office Mode; it also has the option to be worn as a backpack. The idea is to have the advantages of a true messenger for commuting, errands, and play, but be able to hide all the messenger stuff at the office and go about your work. Thei…
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