We collect a backpack
The Chelyabinsk area – the unique place approaching for the most different campaigns, expeditions and sorties. At rather small monetary expenses you can receive set of pluses: to see beautiful places, to take a breath of fresh air, to receive weight of impressions and useful to a body физнагрузку.
That the campaign has gone right, it is necessary to be prepared for it carefully. For example, if you, gathering for a comfortable resort, take an inconvenient bag or will forget houses beach slippers, hardly it will spoil to you rest. An another matter in a campaign: here unsuccessfully chosen backpack or the left houses woollen socks are capable to spoil all good impressions and to impart to you a proof allergy on a word "tourism". What is necessary for the modern person to survive in the conditions of a short separation from a civilisation? First of all - a backpack, tent, a sleeping bag, and also still set of trifles. However, shops offer such variety of tourist equipment that will understand him сложновато, therefore let's make it together. We will begin, perhaps, with a backpack.
Mission of a backpack
Simply "good" backpacks does not happen, there are backpacks approaching. To buy «that is necessary», it is necessary to know, for what the backpack is necessary to you. There are city backpacks (for long walks on a city, picnics or short sorties on the nature), backpacks for the pedestrian, water, mountain, bicycle campaigns, forwarding backpacks, backpacks for ski-rounds and so on. Depending on the purposes the volume, a material and appearance of a backpack varies. So attempts to buy a universal backpack "for all occasions" are in advance doomed to a failure.
By the way, in many respects the mission defines also backpack volume – as a rule, it fluctuates from 18 litres (for departures on the nature on half-day) to 130-140 (for long campaigns). At a backpack choice also it is necessary to pay attention to an age, sex and physical preparation of its "carrier": the more the backpack on volume, the is more than luggage in it it is possible to put, hence, that it will turn out more hard.
From what, from what...
Modern backpacks become from synthetic fabrics, the most qualitative are usually sewed from materials OXFORD and CORDURA: the first softer and easy, the second - holds the form is better, does not slide on snow, soaks through less. Both these fabrics can be different density (maximum – 1000 units): the it above, the more rigidly and more strong a material.
Design
Now in shops it is possible to meet backpacks of following designs.
Easel backpacks consist of a suspension bracket, rigid (usually, metal) frames to which it fastens (straps, a belt, back and lumbar support) and a bag (actually, a backpack). Such backpacks approach for such kinds of tourism to which it is required to transfer the big cargoes – the pedestrian, water, and also спелеотуризм. Earlier easel backpacks of type «Ермак» were «genre classics», but now become a rarity because of low degree of convenience. It is necessary to notice, that between a bag of a backpack and a body of the person bearing him there should pass some strips of a grid made of cloth for ventilation. Besides, the easel backpack should have external fastenings under a bottom and on a cover (for a rug or tent, etc. large things), and, at last, the backpack should be equipped by a zone belt.
At soft backpacks of a frame is not present, and, means, the suspension bracket is sewn directly to a bag. Today's soft backpacks still are called as "anatomic" as they are arranged so that it was possible to adjust a backpack to a figure of the concrete person as much as possible precisely. Such backpacks are easier, more compact, have more flexible design – the size and the form can be regulated. However in the given models loading on a back increases in comparison with frame so on a backpack necessarily there should be a zone belt of adjustable length with a buckle-self-dump – he allows to transfer a part of loading from a back on hips.
Frame backpacks - as a matter of fact, the same soft backpacks with вшитыми in a back flat plastic or metal plates. Frame backpacks reduce loading by a back in comparison with soft backpacks, hold the form is better, they are easier in packings and a resock. At the same time they it is more expensive, heavier (somewhere on 300 grammes) and have smaller volume at the expense of a flat back.
Details
Pockets. For the present marching backpack set of pockets – unessential attribute, and often and simply burden. As ineradicably the desire to fill a backpack is more dense, pockets usually appear полнехоньки. If pockets are on each side the backpack gets ugly and inconvenient "ears" and if pockets are located on the party opposite to pendant system placing in them of weights turns around infringement of centering of a backpack so also weariness of its owner. However, really convenient it is possible to consider a pocket on the closing valve (backpack "cover"). External suspension brackets. On them the most different subjects - from tent to an axe, cords, spoons and so on can take places. Suspension brackets can be convenient enough, the main thing know when to stop and try таки to hide in a backpack a maximum quantity of subjects.
The bottom input or «mouse hole». Allows to get things from below a backpack, not assorting it from above. Usually means division of a backpack into two independent valves. At first sight it seems very convenient, however, frequently, in practice it appears not so: it is necessary to present only as the backpack will look after the thing taken from the bottom valve, will return into place. At least, it will break an order of packing of a backpack (and it strict enough!) and as the maximum – simply will not hold under cargo of things from above.
Fasteners. Fasteners, buckles and an other trifle are extraordinary important details. They should be excellent quality. As to a material long time as the most reliable were considered metal, however they have fair weight, therefore recently the increasing distribution is received by easy and reliable accessories from углепластика (easily maintains to 200 kg).
What, how much?
In Russia many firms make tourist equipment. As recognised leaders are considered Bask, Red Fox, Equipment, Normal, Nova tour, to them concern both Ural manufacturers Манарага and a Terra. Along with backpacks of the Russian manufacturers, in shops it is possible to meet production of foreign travel companies - Tatonka, Salewa, Lowe Alpine, The North Face, Deute, Ferrino. If it would be desirable an exclusive, in Chelyabinsk (as in a certain Mecca of tourism) some умельцы make tourist equipment to order. However, if you dare at such variant listen to councils skilled походников – they for certain will advise the master, whose products are reliable and will not bring in a campaign.
Now about the prices. Good import backpacks stand an order of 7-9 thousand roubles, Russian – is a little bit cheaper: around 2-4 thousand. The more and more strongly a backpack, the it is more expensive. It is one more occasion to reflect, whether it is necessary to buy the heaped up backpack from Cordura1000 on 100 litres if to leave you gather occasionally and for couple of days.
Where to buy Backpacks, as a rule, "are found" in sports shops and "tourist" shops. «Мастодонт» the Chelyabinsk market of tourist equipment - экипировочный centre "Rhodonite". Long time before campaigns the Chelyabinsk tourists went there. Today there is a set of other shops trading in equipment for tourism, and also fishing and hunting, for example, «Underground Sport», "Productive leisure", "Tourist", etc. However, in the majority the choice is much less, than in same "Rhodonite". In sports shops "Trials-sports", "Sport master", "Sport hit" too it is possible to look after to itself рюкзачок.
After purchase
Already after the backpack is picked up, with it still it is necessary to work – well to adjust all details of a suspension bracket. For this purpose we should fill a backpack, and then to tighten all лямочки and fastenings, beginning from below. The weight should be distributed in regular intervals between straps of a backpack and a belt. The suspension bracket should adjoin densely to a body, but together not complicate movements and breath. If you had a feeling, that you were crucified on own backpack, the suspension bracket is tightened incorrectly.
When after long efforts the suspension bracket is adjusted, it is time to pass to one more hard problem – backpack packing. It is not so such easy problem as it seems at first. Main principles of packing the following: along a back the lining from soft things becomes, below from the same soft things the platen becomes. Heavy things develop downwards and as it is possible more close to a back. The backpack is filled so that it was harmonous and high, instead of low and толстеньким. Empty seats in a backpack should not be, things should adjoin to each other as much as possible densely. Sharp subjects take places in covers. Above there should be subjects which can be necessary first of all.
So, the backpack is laid correctly, now put on it, resemble, jump - should rattle, jingle and fall off nothing. All is excellent? It is possible to leave!
Julia Nazarov