>>2421816lot of zips to fail when they get gritty
Personally I would rather have less organisation, it's much lighter and easier to waterproof.
The most elegantly designed packs are essentially a big bucket, which is why you see so many climbing and distance hiking packs shaped like that.
I hike a lot, used to use a bag like that kelty and much prefer internal organisation via little drawstring bags and ziplocks, and one big pack liner to waterproof it all (a contractor's trashbag twisted at the top)
also if you want to be really critical, that brain has too many compartments (i don't even have a brain on mine)
The pocket seams are unnecessary potential points of failure and needless weight/leak holes
the compression system is overbuilt as are the webbing, and that thing has wayyy too many zips and tight flat pouches.
You'll only fit miniscule bottles in those side pouches and it will be a major PIA getting them out without taking off the pack
Belt pockets look like they'd fit... a snus tin at most. Give me big beefy ones for snaccs or forgo them and use a fanny pack.
The fabric is too durable for the other weakspots (zips and mesh side pockets gonna fail long before the fabric and 20 years before the webbing)
Oh, and hauling any bag by a handle there is going to prematurely wear out buckles and shoulder straps, not to mention soaking them and covering them in muck
overall not a bag made by outdoors people.
