If your backpack's external frame died years ago or if you found a cheap ALICE pack on Craigslist without a frame, you can easily make one with around $3 worth of PVC piping and fittings.

Intex ll aluminum frame. - Zippered attachment points compatible ... Tall Mainframe is compatible with the same accessories and packs as regular Mainframe Regular - Weight: 4 lbs 5 oz - Dimensions ...

One thing is for sure: As a backpacker, with an external-frame pack you will stand out. The exposed-frame look is one of a bygone era in the backpacking world. Could these special packs make a ...

A hiking backpack is more than just a bag to carry your stuff. It needs to be a comfortable extension of your body that makes ...

The best internal frame backpack is comfortable ... It’s lighter in weight than an external frame pack of the same size, yet it can still hold a lot of weight and gear. With so many packs ...

The Aether 60 Of course, I cut my backpacking teeth on external frame packs Kelty, JanSport, all the big names. And I still own something of an artifact a Dana Terraframe ($300, more or less ...

If you’ve gone backpacking anytime in the last decade you’ve probably noticed that thru hiking backpacks are starting to get small—really small. The 70-liter external-frame packs of yore are quickly ...

Fjällräven (the name means "arctic fox" in Swedish) was founded in 1960 by enterprising outdoorsman Åke Nordin, who as a teenager made an external-frame backpack in his family’s shed at the ...