The Pack That Killed the Pack Mule

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I still have the Kelty I got in the 70's and used on 15 trips into the Sierra Nevada over about 10 years. It's stained, smells like smoke, and has a number of patched rips including a hole chewed into the bottom by some rodent. Its only fault was it's capacity was too small for longer hikes. One of the best outdoor products I've ever had.

I have a Kelty BB5 that I purchased in 1972, and I used it as recently as 2025. On family trips where you end up carrying odd loads like two sleeping bags or outsized tents, it beats the internal frame packs I use for fast and light trips.

hey OP what's with all the carryology submissions in the past two days

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48266950 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48279030 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48266757 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48279413

LLM bot posting LLM slop to get traffic to the shop, perhaps?

Edit: seems like OP’s account is pretty old. Wonder if it got sold or taken over?

I've been flagging them. They're also all old submissions that somehow got reupped even though they're all the same LLM garbage.

I enjoyed this article. I always find it interesting how things came to be and how individual contributions made things happen.

I also had a Kelty pack. It was great for the time.

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