Final review of Naturehike 60L backpack. Did it survive Glacier National Park_

For those of you interested, I am using the Naturehike 65 plus 5 or 60 plus 5 liter rock series pack on this adventure. I've got this sucker loaded down this time, probably pushing close to 30 pounds, probably 27, 28 pounds. So we're going to see how it does. This will be a real test. I've got it loaded to the max. As you can see, it's up to the back of my net, the back of my head, because I'm carrying more gear, a lot more food this time. And it's supposed to get pretty nippy. So we'll see. The load is probably going to be down in the 30s. We'll see how the bags do, the Naturehike bags that we've got. Hopefully we won't freeze to death. Good evening. This is Dustin with Boomer Outdoors, and I'm here tonight to do a final review of the Naturehike rock series 60 plus 5 Dyneema backpack. As many of you know, I bought this backpack back in April of this year, and I've done a couple of other reviews on it, but I wanted to do one final review. I've taken it out on a couple of other adventures, totally maybe 40 miles of hiking and backpacking, but I really bought this to take to Glacier this year, which we just got back a few weeks ago. I hope you've watched some of our videos of our backpacking adventure there. I think it was an awesome place to go, and I can't wait to get to go back perhaps next year even. But I bought this backpack because I wanted a lighter backpack and something that was a little bit bigger than what I had before, which was a 40 liter backpack. This is a 60 plus 5 back here. So when I bought this, knowing it was a budget backpack, I didn't really know how it was going to hold up. So we took it to Glacier. We took it to the two medicine area. We took it for three days and two nights. It was fully loaded. I carried all the food for both my wife and I. You know, four days worth of food because we're really going to stay out four days. We only ended up three, but we were going to stay four. So I had a lot of food in here. Basically, I had this packed out. Total pack weight was about 28 or 29 pounds. I've actually packed it as close as I could remember it to being packed when we were there. It had a little bit of extra gear because it was getting cold at night. The temperatures at night were down in the mid 30s, almost at the freezing point. So we took a little extra layers of clothing with us. And so that increased the weight too. Normally my pack would probably weight about 23 or 24 total pounds for four days, but I took a little extra stuff with us. And so I just wanted to let you know this pack performed excellent. The hike we did was in a two medicine area. We hiked up to Cobalt Lake, which was basically a six mile hike. Went up about 1600 feet in elevation. Camped there that night. The next day we went over to Madison Pass and Chief Lodgepole Peak. That was going up about another 1100 feet. And that afternoon after crossing the peak and going over the pass, we dropped down about 2880 feet to the Park Creek Campground. Camped that night. The next day we hiked back up the 2880 feet and 3.8 miles. Went over Chief Lodgepole Peak. Got back down to Cobalt Lake and my wife and my son, they wanted some pizza. They were hungry and so they wanted to hike on out. So we hiked the 5.7 or 8 miles out for a total of nearly 12 miles that day. And I share that with you to tell you that this pack, even it weighing 28-29 pounds, it did not hurt my shoulders. It did not hurt my back. It carried very well. I was very well pleased with it. Even these hip pockets, which I gave a lot of flap to, and they are smaller. You can get an iPhone 7 in there with a little room to spare. And over here on this side, I even stuck a couple of granola bars in here. And to be honest with you, when I was hiking out that day going up to 2880 feet, I had two or three granola bars in there and some nuts in a bag and it really came in handy. I'd never had a pack with hip pockets before. So even though they're small, they did come in handy. This chest pocket, which is fixed, which doesn't need to be fixed, but and it will hold about a 16-ounce water bottle, I found it perfect for my bear spray. We were in grizzly bear country. In fact, we were in some thick, heavy vegetation down near the Park Creek campgrounds with bearing bushes everywhere. So this bear spray was, it was essential to get to it. Fortunately, we didn't see any grizzly bears. The only other thing about it is the hydration pockets. I can get the bottle out of there, but getting the bottle back in there, you pretty much, you're going to have to take this pack off. And that's the one real negative I saw to it. It's just the hip pocket, the hydration pocket. Now I will tell you, I did make some statements in my earlier reviews that you needed to be about six feet tall to wear this pack, but it really doesn't have to do with height. And some people pointed that out to me, that even shorter people can have a 19 or 20 inch torso length. So while this is fixed, you know, there's not adjustable torso length on this. Even shorter people, if you have anywhere between a 19 and maybe even an 18 and 21 inch torso length, this pack would work on you. So overall, I'm going to tell you for a budget backpack, the manufacturer I said is Naturehike, which I think my wife has shown you that already. It's a Chinese company. This one's made of Dyneema. It weighs about 2.2 pounds, 12 ounces. I'm very, very pleased with this pack. I give it two thumbs up. I'd like to get your feedback on it. This will be my last review on it, but tell me if you've got one, what you think of the pack and what you think of my reviews. And just let me know, you know, your overall feelings about this pack. And I thank you for watching. I hope you found these reviews of this pack helpful. I look forward to coming reviews. I'm going to do a review on the Naturehike CW400 sleeping bags also that we took. So be looking forward to that. Good night.