I month or so ago I sent a general email out to a few people who follow on twitter to see if they would be interested in sending me some gear to test and review for the blog. A new company called Blue Ice took me up on the offer and sent me a new rucsac, which for the last month has been somewhere in teh delivery system, its a long story, but essentially if you are going to get people to send you stuff try to remember your own address!
So first mpression of the 45 litre sack are thats it is very well put together, has a great design and more importantly fits all my trad rack in. I am going to use it for a couple of weeks and then I’ll put up a more indepth review, although I was thinking today as I passed the rainbow slab, whether it would pass the Rainbow Test.
This I have only seen done once by a young Leo Houlding, who on being set a new rucsack that was described as ‘Bombproof’, decided that rather than abseil to the base of the slab with his sack he just chuck it off the top. I thought it did alright as only two seams burst! Not sure I am going to do that to this bag as I like it too much already.
If you’d like to see the bag then visit Blue Ice, I think the only place you can buy them in the UK at present is Lakes Climber.