The sky was a gradient of pale orange to violet grey. It was 5am and I stood shivering, straddling the too hot/too cold DMZ that surrounded the campfire, and staring down at my sleeping bag. Its rectangular cotton shell was a brownish-green diffuse with cartoon images of cowboys and Indians aiming weapons at unseen foes. The […]
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The Kelty Ascender 22
I am compelled to begin my review of the Kelty Ascender 22 bag by quoting Clarke’s* Third Law: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.” How else can one adequately describe a bag that in two stages (37.5% each) becomes 75% larger? Sure we’ve all seen a zippered expansion trick with other bags, […]