FitnessTravelGear.com – Featuring DryComp Ridge Sack – July 2010
I’m glad I have Outdoor Research’s new DryComp Ridge Sack in my arsenal. It’s one of those packs that’s absolutely perfect for anything wet and yucky: rainy bike commutes, ocean trips on dive boats, peak bagging in storms, hikes in rainforests, or days in a kayak. The list is endless. If it’s gonna be wet, I take my OR DryComp Ridge.
I got to test out this 34-liter bag in California on a recent hiking trip to the Channel Islands National Park. No peak bagging, no rainforests, no wet bike commutes — but a wet boat ride to the islands, and then a really wet boat ride on a skiff through a huge swell to get to the beach. We unloaded and were totally soaked – but all my food, camera gear, and clothing were completely dry. Big points for OR’s backpack.
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Backpacker Magazine – Gear Review: Outdoor Research DryComp Ridge Pack – June 23, 2010
My favorites pieces of gear are typically multi-purpose, robust, simple, and effective. The Outdoor Research DryComp Ridge Sack is all these things.
The construction is extremely basic. It’s a 34-liter rucksack made of waterproof 70-denier nylon fabric with a roll top closure and welded seams. There are simple shoulder straps with a chest and waist buckle, although those are more for load stability than weight transfer. The pack bag has bungee cords, a narrow mesh stuff pocket, and security cords for up to two ice axes. The pack bottom is reinforced with tougher 420D nylon.
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Gear Patrol – Featuring The DryComp Ridge Sack – June 10, 2010
Outdoor Research calls the DryComp Ridge Sack a perfect pack for peak bagging and summit pushes. Well, living in Minnesota, there aren’t a lot of peaks to be bagged but we have a few thousand lakes and countless rivers, so I’m re-positioning this waterproof bag as the perfect paddling pack.
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DryComp Ridge Sack
The DryComp Ridge Sack from Outdoor Research weighs just 16 ounces, feels light in the hands, and is translucent, so finding that elusive piece of gear is easy. And for something as simple as a sack with two shoulder straps, it’s pretty darn high tech, with sonically welded seams that make it watertight, lighter, and sleeker.
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