Whether hiking on nature trails or around a city, spending even an hour with a 1-liter water bottle in the side pocket of a backpack can make your back ache. It puts stress on your left or right ...

We explain the differences and benefits of an external frame backpack vs internal to see if there’s a good argument for resurrecting the traditional pack for long treks . | Credit: Joel Carillet ...

As I’ve recently started kicking my training up a notch or two with endurance races (marathon-length runs on more trying terrain), I’ve also begun to try out different running backpacks. A running ...

In this column last month, I covered two major companies, Kelty and JanSport, who will introduce retro-style, external-frame backpacks in 2011. The article pitched external-frame packs as throwbacks — ...