User Review: Lowe Alpine Frontier 75+20

Lowe Alpine Frontier 75+20
Above: The current Frontier 75+20, which may differ slightly from the version reviewed.

Reviewed July 11, 2006 by Al Dennis

Rating:
Design: top/front loading internal
Size: 4500 cu in
Number of Pockets: 4 + main compartment
Max. Load Carried: 60 lb's so far
Height of Owner: 5' 10"
Price Paid: $170

All of these reviews are highy subjective and I don't usually pay much attention to them. Anybody reading this probably shouldn't either but I thought I'd put in my $.02 anyway.

I've been at this backpacking thing for a long time and I don't do it "professionally" so this is just another puff of hot air. I'm also a diehard frame pack user, that was what was available when I started so that is what I got to know best. I bought an internal when they first started getting popular and I used it for awhile but went back to a frame. I bought my Frontier because I've been feeling a little pressure from my grandkids to get with the times and it's getting harder and harder to find a good frame pack any more. I have another small Lowe pack that I've used for years and it's been like an old friend so when I went looking I checked Lowe packs first.

I'm pretty much happy with this pack because it is very well built with just enough of the right bells and whistles to make even an old diehard framer happy but not enough to require a certificate in packology to figure the thing out. Hat's off to Lowe for still making quality functional packs without a bunch of marginally useful features more designed to attract buyers than serve any really useful function. Even adjusting the thing is so simple it's absolutely brilliant.

I still think a person actually needs two packs, a good frame pack for general use and an internal for everthing else. For what it's worth I'd even recommend this pack.

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