Peak Design Travel Backpack 45L, Sage, Expandable 35-45L Design, Rear and Top Access, Weatherproof Shell, Laptop Sleeve, Ideal for Travel or Everyday Carry, Versatile Backpack for Men and Women

Recently went on an extended weekend trip and brought this Peak Design Backpack on the plane. It held everything I needed and then some. Expanded to 45L which is great if you need extra room and the airline (Air Canada) allowed. It fit into the overhead compartment. Extremely durable material, along with creative & practical design makes this a great backpack for travel. The quality of the materials are high performance. The pulls are really tough, the zippers don't get snagged and are very high quality. Many compartments to house different items so you can be very organized. Almost everything about this backpack is wonderful. The only thing I can say that they can improve on is the shoulder straps have a sternum strap, which is not easy to connect to the other shoulder strap. Maybe use a better system, with two sternum straps with a metal clip on both ends that clips onto each other. Other than that, a real quality product. I hope to use it more in the near future. I will use it as my exclusive travel backpack.

This item gets a lot of returns, and I bet it's because people get it to try it out but end up going with something that better suits their uses and is cheaper. The quality is obviously very high so I doubt it's due to defects. The biggest flaw (no comfortable handles) is easily fixed. While it has great "grab handles" in strategic locations for putting it on, taking it off, and getting it in and out of vehicles, it doesn't have good handles for carrying when you're not using the backpack. Simple solution: use any shoulder strap clipped to the handy attachment points. They're not intended for that, and look like it might be off-balance, but it turns out it works quite well. It's narrow, so you'll tend to use it with smaller compression sacks. While it's a decent packpack, it doesn't have load lifters, so while the hip belt is good enough to carry the load, your shoulders will always carry part of it -- how much depends on your torso length. I'm 6'1" but long legs so medium male torso, but my shoulders carried about 1/3 to 1/2 the load. I tried to rig up some load lifters using the attachment points and it almost worked -- it would have worked had my torso been an inch or three shorter. So, this is NOT a long trek hiking backpack. Almost but not quite. The pockets and access points are nicely laid out and useful. It does weigh an extra pound or two, but once I get 30-40 lbs of stuff in it, that doesn't matter to me.

Very nice travel backpack. I like big backpack so for me the size is perfect. It seems very durable and very comfort to use. This backpack is rather on the expensive side, but the quality is good.

TL; DR - Amazing backpack if you travel a lot. Very durable, packed with features I'm a who loves backpacks, especially ones that fit my exact needs. I travel around pretty frequently and always try to pack as light as possible. Always trying to avoid checking a bag when I travel and only using carry on's. This backpack has always been on my radar, but just couldn't stomach the price. Eventually, the little voice inside my head that's always whispering "treat yo self" finally got the best of me. And I took the plunge. It got here right before my 3 week trip to Europe. As soon as I got it, I was blow away with all the hidden features that it had. Peak Design is very good at not just product design, but also integration with its other products. I paired this with the small camera cube and medium size packing cube. The ideal set up for this bag in my opinion. I can carry most of my camera stuff in the camera cube, and about 4-5 days of clothing in the packing cube. With some room to spare! This set up leaves a small cavity at the top of the bag which I used to put with my toiletry bag or my Bose QC35 headphones along with a travel blanket. It all fits very snug and fits like a puzzle. The hidden straps at the bottom of the bag were way more useful to me that I really thought they would be. I typically travel with a crew neck or hoodie because airplanes are typically cold, but when I'm walking around or its warm at my destination, I'll take it off and use the straps to secure it on the outside of my bag. I've also used the straps to carry a blanket, works beautify and its very secure. The middle diver in the bag can be unzipped and folded away if you just want one big sack to work with, I prefer to leave it in place, has a well padded laptop and separate tablet compartment, and a few hidden pockets in the bottle holders. My only gripe with the backpack would have to be those afore mentioned bottle holders. I feel like they don't hold bottles snuggly enough. But given everything else about this bag, I can can't deal with it. The zippers are very solid, and water resistant, as is the whole bag. Personally tested this out when walking around Paris in the rain. My belongings were perfectly dry inside! Another big feature about the bag is its stow away backpack straps and waist belt. I always remove the waist belt of any backpack I get because I hardly use it. In this backpack, you can't remove them, but they do fold away behind some cleverly designed magnetic flaps! And when they are stowed, you don't feel any weird bumps and won'y even know they're there. You can also stow away the backpack straps under those same flaps and make this thing a full blown duffle bag. Which has come in handy more times than I would've thought. Final thoughts. Given how much I travel, I wish I would've bought this bag sooner. Cant recommend enough! The Value/Convience factor is just as high as the price haha. But well worth it.

This is a very well made bag with thoughtful innovative design features! However, it is VERY HEAVY! There are no load lifters! If you are short, I am 5’4” with long legs and shorter torso, this bag is NOT for you! The hip belt does not help us short people! Because this bag is so long, the hip belt sits well below my hips. This bag was most definitely built for an average to tall man. I really wanted this bag to work for me, but it just doesn’t. I was looking for a bag that had a refined aesthetic. This is a beautiful, well made bag with tons of great features. But this does not work for short people. I will be selling this bag on Peak Designs website if anyone is interested.

I will update this review as needed because I have not used this for the intended trip, but this bag is pretty amazing. The build is soft-sided, yet the material feels sturdy, water-repellent, and the bag holds it's shape well, which I feel is necessary in a good travel bag. There is plenty of access points to the two main large compartments, which expandable to 45L from 35L. I am used to backpacks being shorter than this, but taller size that this bag offers makes more sense without adding too much to the overall size. For example, this can comfortably accommodate shoes without eating up the centrally-located majority of space of shorter bags I've had. There are a number of features that seem thoughtful that I will try and write about in the update. To name a few - the backpack straps can be tucked away under magnetic flaps, leaving a single handle if you chose to use this as a duffle. There is another flap on the bottom with conceals 2 straps that can be used to secure large exterior objects, like tripods, if utilizing the two exterior open side compartments. Also, there are two hip pocket straps that unfold from under that flap that have zippered compartments. These are just a few things, but I will update more and have pictures. Thanks for reading so far!

Sometimes you want to wear it like a backpack, and sometimes you need to put it somewhere (in my case, an overhead rack on Amtrak or an airliner). When you need to stow this, the straps hide behind a cleverly engineered panel with a few magnetic catches to keep the result flush and tidy. The straps don't catch on anything. Then, to wear it again, just pull the straps out in literally three seconds and shrug it on. Genius. The rest of the design is simple and effective. It's mostly a one-big-bag design but you do get water-bottle pockets on each side and a slot for a laptop. The fabric and stitching feel sturdy and abrasion-resistant. It's not cheap! But it's a high quality piece of travel kit, and its thoughtful design means you will want to use it, and you will appreciate its better-than-most utility. (I also bought Peak Design's matching Wash Pouch to replace a 45-year-old Dopp kit that was fraying and disassembling itself at last. The Wash Pouch is, like the backpack, a clever critter. It has just the right combination of small and large interior spaces to hold deodorant, toothbrush, toothpaste, shaving essentials and smaller stuff like wipes, Q-tips, nail nippers, whatever... while keeping wet and dry things separate. )

I recently bought this backpack for personal and business travel. It worked great on my first trip going to DC for a long weekend. I was able to pack 5 days of clothes, a pair of shoes, a laptop, a rain poncho, umbrella, a packable backpack, a hat, a shave kit, a mess kit, toiletries, a DLSR camera, a smaller gimbal camera, a journal, a couple of battery packs, assorted cables and chargers. It all fit without having to expand to the full 45 liters. I'm sure I over-packed it versus how Peak Design expects it to be packed. It still easily fit the carry-on size for my carrier. I also love how I don't have to lean it up against anything when I'm sitting waiting for the flight. It stands upright all by itself. Even though the initial packed configuration looked like it deformed the back, everything zipped up nice and easy. On top of that I could open it up from the side and slip in the umbrella, although it could have also gone in the extra large exterior side pocket. Surprisingly, even with all that weight it was super comfortable even without the waist straps. Getting it up and down from the overhead was super easy since the straps all tuck away and it has handles on 5 sides of the pack. I also made use of the loops to hook my headphone case for easy access. I used the Peak Design packing cubes and those were awesome as well. They open all the way up making them easy to pack and then can be compressed. They kept everything separated and had a nice extra pocket for dirty clothes. This was nice because I could leave my pack on the hook at the end of the bed, pull out a cube to get ready for the day, and stuff it back into the pack pretty easily. No need to unpack everything or worry about checking through drawers on checkout day. Since the bag butterflies open I was able to go through the airport scanner without putting my laptop in a separate bucket; It stayed in the padded pouch. Peak Design provides some internal cubes for cameras that are secured to internal hooks using custom carabiner/clips. I didn't need those cubes, but I did want some extra restraint for my gear all the same. I couldn't find similar clips locally, or something like G-hooks, or other straps that could hook on easily. I found some simple metal loops at the store along with some hook and loop elastic straps. A snip with some wire cutters and a little filing for the cut ends and I had an easy way to use the built-in loops and add some straps to further secure the interior contents. Could be overkill, because everything fits great. But I like not having to worry about things spilling out in the shuffle of the security line. I did end up buying some of the Peak Design clips separately after the trip and they're definitely superior to my little hacked clips. Everything is super easy to access on this bag; Front, back, and both sides. I like this configuration much better than other backpacks that have a ton of pockets and zippers and organizers that never get fully used for what they were meant for. This is simple and easy. Big pockets to throw your stuff into. Very simple organization pocket for common things or plenty of room to throw your own favorite organizer into. The only negative I have for this pack is that because it is so well built and well-structured it's going to be an effort to minimize how much I put into it to meet weight limits when traveling internationally. It's about 4 lbs empty which eats up a bunch of weight when limited to 17-20 lbs for a carry-on with many flights. It also just invites throwing everything into it for one bag travel. Really love this pack.

The magnetic harness storage and partition strike a perfect balance. This backpack combines functionality and design. Ideal for extended business trips and travel.

Bought this bad boi for a bit of one bagging to Nice this Xmas (cause Blighty is f****** cold and miserable). A twat, with a little jiggery-pokery I got 2 weeks worth of shizzle into it It's well made, looks amazing, is super comfy and generally my new fave thing Too big for an everyday carry, but for a few weeks of well deserved sun it's a winner

I have been seriously impressed with this bag. It has millions of handy features. I love the way there are multiple ways that you can organise the bags and its dividers to get at your stuff in a really easy way that suits you, according to the need you are using it for. I really love being able to open it wide open and see everything at once. I also like the neat security features built in. Any buyer must watch the excellent video on the PD website which explains all the features. About the only drawback I can think of is that this bag has is that it is reasonably heavy before you put anything in it…. But honestly it’s such a good bag you soon forget that. Feels built to last.

Produit de qualité même si c'est un peu cher. J'ai acheté la plupart des accessoires avec mais pour les accessoires je pense c'est trop cher. Peut être j'aurais pu attendre pour les accessoires pour me débrouiller avec d'autre produit non Peak Design. Mais le sac soit même ça vaut le coût. Très bonne qualité.

Es una maravilla, elegante , practica, gran capacidad, cómoda, la recomiendo..