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Heaps Pack           $ 209.95    

 

Doing something, with a little meat on the bone? Imlay Canyon Gear backpacks set the standard for comfortable, intelligent, and durable design in the brutal canyon environment. Ours Heaps packs ride as smoothly as backpacking packs, but sacrifice unneeded bells and whistles to deliver sleek, technical performance. The packs shed water quickly, rarely get caught up on canyon debris, and are big enough to stow everything we need on long guided days. With 200+ user days, 700+ immersions, and countless chimney squeezes and grating stems last season, our Heaps Packs survived and served us faithfully. The Heaps packs are invaluable tools in the canyon, and we love them. Thanks for the great work, Tom. Nick Wilkes Director of Guided Services Zion Adventure Company www.zionadventures.com Then the Heaps pack is for YOU. If you're carrying a fair bunch of gear, carry it in style and comfort with the Heaps pack. Designed for canyons with a bivy, the Heaps has 50 liters of usable space to pack your bivy gear, food, wet or dry suit, numerous ropes and technical gear - you know, stuff! The Tube-Light Frame and full wrap-around hipbelt make for a stable and comfortable ride.   Construction: Insta-Drain Construction means water drains out instantly. Pull the Heaps out of a pothole, and it weighs what it is supposed to weigh, not 20 pounds more. Burly Canyon Mesh and 1000 denier Cordura make for a sturdy pack. The simple design gets rid of superfluous "features" that get chewed up and spit out by the canyon environment. Layout A fairly simple pack, the Heaps is laid out for maximum utility in the canyons. The smooth exterior ghosts through narrow canyons well. Two pleated pocket on the front and side hold your favorite beverage, a Happy Hooker or can be used to stash slings; but lay flat when not in use. Drainholes at the bottoms of the pockets allow trapped water to escape instantly. Rather than closing with zippers, the pockets close with a strap and sturdy plastic buckle. Why? 'Cause zippers break, either by chafing against the sandstone, or by fine sand infiltrating the coil. Zippers don't work - buckles do. The pack is carefully shaped to synergize with Imlay 6.4 liter Canyon Dry Kegs. The Heaps easily fits 4 kegs, though I'm not sure why you would do that. The pleated side pocket is meshified for Instant Draining, and can hold all sorts of useful tools.

Suspension This thing carries pretty well. Beefy three-point shoulder straps are carefully shaped and lined with a plush, 3D Mesh. A fold up bivy pad inside the back of the pack places 3/4" of nice foam between you and the stuff you are carrying. The Tube-Light Frame makes the pack absolutely rigid, and the hipbelt is nicely shaped to hug the hips. Helpful Canyon-Specific Features: The shoulder straps are held on with 1" clip buckles. Should the pack become a serious encumberance in a rappeling, swimming, downclimbing or waterfall situation - clip clip - reach over and release the shoulder straps... voila, packs away! As another treat, the sternum strap includes a whistle - always available and in a handy position. A Sturdy Handle is easily grabbed or clipped. Rappel with the pack hanging from your harness, and don't worry about the straps pulling out like on most packs. Reinforced Bottom The butt on this thing is not only shapely, but also sturdy. Cordura and heavy Canyon Mesh is backed up by a thin layer of foam that mellows out anything sharpish in the bottom of the pack. The inside is lined with Mesh as a backup layer and to allow Instant Drainage.

Interior Features The inside the pack is special too. A mesh backpocket is ready for a watertank. Across the top of the back is a gear loop for racking your technical hardware to keep it handy. A zipper allows easy access to the fold-up-bivy-pad and Tube-Light Frame, while maintaining a tight fit that is important to the suspension working. In Canyon, you probably want to take the lid off, and tuck it in your drybag or Keg. Thanks to a clever configuration of straps and buckles, the lid straps cross over the top of the pack, holding the contents of the pack securely and minimizing the dangliness of the straps. An additional 1" strap over the top holds ropes securely, whether you are using the lid or not. Bottom Line The Heaps pack is well matched to its namesake canyon in Zion - big, burly, technical - and olds up well to repeated descents. Specifications Capacity:   50 liters or 3050 Cubic Inches Weight:   1930 grams or 4 lb 5 oz Colors:   Red with Black, or Tan with Blue

Imlay Heaps Pack             $ 209.95            

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