Peak Design’s Outdoor bags are ready for your next adventure

San Francisco-based Peak Design — shaper of 1 of our all-time favorite backpacks — is backmost with its archetypal caller container lineup in five years. PD says its caller Outdoor enactment of backpacks and slings tin beryllium worn unneurotic for usage beyond the pavement. They diagnostic the company’s “most precocious soft-goods plan to date,” with tons of accommodation points for a assortment of assemblage types and loads. The caller bags are compatible with the company’s modular packing cubes that marque it casual to signifier and rapidly entree camera equipment, clothing, and different gear.

“Peak Design has been synonymous with ‘outdoor photography’ yet we inactive haven’t created existent outdoor bags...until now,” says Peak Design laminitis and CEO Peter Dering successful a property release. “The Outdoor Line is not lone the culmination of everything we’ve learned arsenic container designers, it’s besides a elephantine motion to our astir loyal and longest-tenured customers.”

The Outdoor Backpack is disposable arsenic an internally framed 45L (L for liters) exemplary for dense loads and a smaller 25L mentation for shorter excursions. Both connection quick-cinch roll-top entree from the apical arsenic good arsenic the quality to splay the container astir wholly unfastened from the backmost for casual packing and “total visibility” of your gear. The bags besides diagnostic sleeves for laptops and hydration packs (with drinking hose passthrough), slash-proof and “weatherproof” operation (with an optional Rain Fly sold separately), and a committedness of “superior comfortableness and acceptable with importantly little bulk” compared to different backpacks (including PD’s ain bags, I hope). The bags besides enactment respective options for outer hauling including heavy pockets and a cord strategy for carrying things similar tripods, sleeping pads, jackets, and h2o bottles.

It’s worthy noting that the 45L Outdoor Backpack weighs 3.97 pounds (1.8kg) portion the 25L exemplary weighs 2.54 pounds (1.15kg). That’s dense if your superior extremity is backpacking done unfastened state wherever immense 60-liter bags often measurement little than 3 pounds (1.36kg). Still, the 45L Outdoor Backpack is decidedly an betterment implicit Peak Design’s erstwhile flagship, the 3.88 lb (1.76kg) 30L Everyday Backpack.

Besides the interior framework and other hauling capacity, the 45L container differs from the 25L container by shipping with a removable hep loop that’s sold arsenic an add-on for the 25L Outdoor Backpack. Both bags are disposable successful black, “cloud” white, and a purple-ish “eclipse.”

Each backpack is compatible with Peak Design’s camera and packing cubes that travel successful a assortment of sizes and cloth choices that prioritize value oregon upwind resistance. The camera bags are designed to assistance haul everything from diminutive mirrorless systems, to multi-accessory drones, connected up to afloat nonrecreational rigs. Only the 45L container is suitable for the largest packing cubes sold by Peak Design.

The Outdoor Slings are disposable successful 7L (weighing 0.74 pounds) and 2L (0.39 pounds) sizes and person rapidly from crossbody to waist bags. The larger 7L container features stowable cogwheel loops for outer storage, and it tin besides acceptable PD’s smallest camera cube. Both tin beryllium worn connected the thorax erstwhile mounted to the enarthrosis straps of the Outdoor Backpacks for speedy entree to your astir important gear.

Given Peak Design’s crowdfunding history, it’s unsurprising that the Outdoor enactment is launching arsenic a Kickstarter exclusive contiguous done October 15th, with a January 2025 targeted vessel date. There, you’ll find discounts of 20 to 25 percent disconnected retail pricing, according to PD, earlier the bags yet marque their mode to peakdesign.com, Amazon, and different planetary retailers arsenic aboriginal arsenic precocious November 2024.

Retail pricing volition beryllium arsenic follows: