>>2817167Notice the side compression straps go over the side pockets. The side pockets are made to be accessible from the front, so the wearer can retrieve items (typically water bottles) more easily without removing their pack.
If the compressions straps are tightened over the contents of the pocket, how will the wearer retrieve them without removing their pack and loosening the straps? It’s a rhetorical question to point out a major design flaw. A feature of the pack (the front opening on the side pockets) is rendered totally unusable by the compression strap design.
Maybe I’m wrong and it’s a weird picture. It certainly looks like it, and I know for a fact that the Exos is like this. How does this happen? How does it pass a design team? How does no one question it? Why aren’t people noticing?
