women's rucksack's

[roberts]

My wife is 5 ft 1 and is in need of a new rucksack for trekking budget of about £100 must be lady specific and not green or camo or pink but most importantly very comfortable, so this question goes out to the lady's what would you all recommend.
i would be very great full for any input.
Many thanks ;)

[cuppa joe]

[url]http://help.berghaus.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/398/~/women%27s-fit-rucksacks[/url


http://store.berghaus.com/s/sizeguides.html

[Humakt]

Apart from the colour, what is a 'lady-specific' rucksack!?
I thought they were gender neutral. As is 'comfort'. Who wants an uncomfortable rucksack?
Does someone really produce a 'female rucksack'? Really? A rucksack is a rucksack, I would have thought. If there is such a thing then I can't help but feel that it's just cynical marketing.
Apart from the colour, obviously. But then I don't like bright red or blue or whatever rucksacks. And I don't like it when other people use them - there's nothing worse than being out in a beautiful place and all you can see are bright colours bobbing about in the distance. Spoils my view. That's why I wear muted coulours, so I don't become a blot on someone else's landscape. And I don't like them beng a blot on mine.

[roberts]

Humakt Just two words for you mate and there BREASTS

Before anyone points it out I know breasts is one word

[roberts]

Thank you cuppa Joe for the link its very informative.

[TreefrogGB]

My wife is 5 ft 1 and is in need of a new rucksack for trekking budget of about £100 must be lady specific and not green

Ah!, I could have offered you a vintage Berghaus Cyclops Roc back size 1, in green cotton canvas if you wanted a bushy crafty type one :)

[roberts]

Thank you for the fantastic offer there a great sack, I have plenty of bushy sacks but swmbo likes her own . I think it's gonna be a trip this weekend to Cotswold outdoors .

[Humakt]

Humakt Just two words for you mate and there BREASTS

Before anyone points it out I know breasts is one word

Yes, fair point. And I know that some breasts are more (how shall I put this delicately?) 'buoyant' than others (even amongst us chaps), but the straps on a ruck sack go over the shoulders and under the armpits, whereas the breasts are on the front of the body - not normally under the armpits.

[suggy]

There are women specific rucksacks because of the skeletal issue, not baps ;)

A men's rucksack sits lower on a woman.No matter how much fiddling with straps. The ladies have a shorter measurement between pits and hips. I imagine some ladies may buy male rucksacks depending on their body.

My missus is nagging me to buy her a couple of rucksacks, day pack and trekking,I'm gonna be skint.

If it's a trekking pack your after, my missus fell in love with a Osprey pack

http://www.gooutdoors.co.uk/ariel-65-s-p178569

Pricey, but by all accounts fits like a glove !

I tried it and can confirm rucksacks can be gender specific, nasty fit for me anyway. Sat too high.

Good luck with it !

ATB

[roberts]

Thanks for everyone's help moorland rambler in Exeter £60 for women's fit berghaus 60ltr black and grey with green strapping not a bad rucksack to be honest and yes there is a difference in fit the shoulder straps are a slightly different shape and the hip belt rides different . job done

[happybonzo]

Bit late now but Macpac are more switched on than most of the other, decent, manufacturershttp://www.macpac.co.nz/

http://www.macpac.co.nz/