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Travel far and light with the Farpoint Family, designed to keep up with fast-moving globetrotters exploring new and exciting places. Despite minimal weights, these full-featured men's packs adopt serious backpacking features from our more technical packs—like fine-tunable torso adjustments, load-lifting LightWire frames and breathable harnesses/hipbelts—blended with practical travel functionality.
Internal organization has been optimized for travel purposes and rugged compressions straps keep your carry tight and stable whether you're bringing your whole kit along or slimming down for excursions. The Farpoint 55 comes with a fully detachable dayback that gives you ultimate flexibility with your travels. Plus, it meets most domestic carry-on requirements with the main pack overhead and daypack as your personal item for far-flung adventures.
This measurement starts at the iliac crest, which is the top of your hipbone on the side of your body that acts like a shelf. From this point, measure to the C7 vertebra, the knobby bone at the base of your neck when you put your head down. Reference the torso length below to match the correct pack size.
Osprey Xenith, Xena, Aether, Ariel, Atmos and Aura packs offer interchangeable shoulder harnesses. Harness sizing usually corresponds to pack size. A properly fit harness should terminate 2" to 3" beneath the armpit when at the proper torso length. The webbing should not touch the side of the body below the padding.
True function and comfort along with style. We have over 20 years of experience designing women's packs.
The pack's shape is patterned to be more narrow and with added depth in the right places. This allows greater freedom of movement and increases stabilization by lowering the position of the load to a more optimal center of gravity. As a result, the load is more proportionately supported on the hips and along the structure of the back.
The shoulder harness is designed with thoughtful angle changes and varying padding thickness to create an anatomical fit for a woman's neck, shoulders and chest. This is balanced with optimizing where the tension from the pack's load is carried. For women, our sternum strap is a key piece in equalizing the pressure across the shoulder harness. The padding used is also specific in order to be more comfortable when carrying a heavy load.
The hipbelt is designed with thoughtful angle changes and varying padding thickness to create an anatomical fit. The hipbelt is also narrower in height for better comfort so it doesn't dig into the ribs or upper thighs when scrambling or climbing. Most importantly, women's hips are more conically shaped with a larger difference between the waist and hip measurements. We sculpt and angle our hipbelts accordingly for comfortable load transfer and optimal support. Again, the padding used is also specific in order to be more comfortable when carrying a heavy load.
Osprey Xenith, Xena, Aether, Ariel and Variant series packs offer interchangeable hipbelts. To determine hipbelt size, measure around the hips, at the iliac crest, not the waist. The padded portion should wrap well around the hips, leaving a gap of 3" to 6" between the tips of both hip pads when securely tightened.
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I bought this backpack for a 9 day trip to Ecuador and the Galápagos Islands. It was tremendous. The 40-liter primary pack was spacious enough for a lightweight rain jacket, quarter zip, multiple long sleeve sun shirts, 2 pairs of pants, 2 shorts, 2 swimsuits, socks, and Keen sandals. The day pack held my iPad, toiletries and sunscreen, chargers, two books, and the internal laptop sleeve conveniently stored my foldable sun hat. Both packs provided ample space and had room for souvenirs. The zip away shoulder straps allowed the bag to easily fit in the overhead compartment on flights. The day pack was plenty big enough for excursions. The flexibility of the bags made travel on plane, boat and bus very easy. I wore the pack both as one unit and also with the daypack strapped to the front. The solid construction and zippers provided peace of mind. Very pleased with this product.
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I'm not sure this lives up to the hype. I've used it for several overnight and long weekend trips during the 2024 holiday season. While it has accommodated those trips easily, I'm not at all confident it can accommodate a multi-week journey as claimed in reviews in online publications. Additionally, I feel like it needs an instruction manual. There are straps and buckles on the detachable backpack that don't seem to serve any purpose. There are also buckles on the main pack that don't match up to anything that I can find. (If the buckles on the backpack are to match up with buckles on the main bag, they are different sizes and don't connect securely. There are also mysterious half-loops in seemingly random places on the main compartment. Is there a Fairpoint support group on line anywhere? I'm sure this bag will last a long time as it is well constructed. Maybe by the time it starts to wear out, I will have figured out the mystery straps and buckles.
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Purchased Farpoint 55 for me and Faipoint 55 for the wife in summer 2022. We have taken trips to Alaska (multi city), Barbados, Hawaii (multi island), Viet Nam (multi city), Costa Rica (multi city), and Iceland (multi AirBnB). We are able to pack all we need in these bags and do carry on. So we are able to clear the airport quickly bypassing baggage claim. We had just returned from a Hawaii trip where we had checked our bags and a coworker described these bags to me. Found the bags locally and presented the idea to my wife. She looked at me in disbelief. But then she pulled the stuff out of her Hawaii check bag and placed only the stuff she actually used on the trip into her bag. She had room to spare in the new bag. So we have "gone for it" and now use these bags for all our trips (Except if we are doing a car trip for a weekend, we are sloppy and use the old bags bringing more junk than we need or use!). My loaded bags run about 35 lbs and my wife (with laptop) runs about 28 lbs. Big bags go in the over head - small bags go under the seat on the airplane. Sometimes we double the bags. Sometimes we have the big bags on our backs and carry the small bags. Sometimes we have the big bag on bag and use the clips to put small bag on the front/belly. A lot of versatility if you are willing to carry instead of roll your luggage. We can move agilely through airports and train stations.
