If you go into the hunt with the mindset that getting it out is gonna' suck, you'll never be disappointed. When I’m hunting, I’m using a medium size backpack with a capacity of about 4,000 cu.in., (Osprey Zenuith 75) which is mostly empty. When I kill an elk, I carry out the first load of loose meat in that pack and then I switch to a bigger pack (North Face Back Shadow, about 6,400 cu.in.) capable of carrying 80#. I carry out the big quarters in that pack. Then I switch back to the smaller pack to go back in and get my camp.

North Face no longer produces the Back Shadow.

KC


Wind in my hair, Sun on my face, I gazed at the wide open spaces, And I was at home.