![]() ![]() The shoulder straps did not have any loops on them.įor travel, the whole pack flips inside out and folds into the front pocket. The waist belt and sternum strap have small elastic loops to hold the excess webbing. The elastic on the Kompressor is short and was fully extended most of the time we wore it. The sternum strap also has a small elastic section to help with bounce between the shoulder straps. The Kompressor Meteor is a simple lightweight pack with few features.Īn emergency whistle is built into the sternum strap buckle. ![]() The elastic top and stretch pocket material held water bottles and bars in while moving quickly. The side pockets are excellent and easily hold 1 liter water bottles. The zipper on this pocket is double sided for zipping when it’s inside out. After removing the back panel the whole pack folds into this pocket. Items fit in this pocket even when the main compartment was packed full. The pocket is large enough to hold a midlayer and thin jacket. When a bladder is in the hydration pocket, it pulls down on the stash pocket zipper creating a kink and making it hard to unzip.Ī large front pocket unzips vertically. The zipper is only 5.5 inches long which made it a bit awkward to get large phones into the pocket. The top stash pocket can store a wallet, phone, keys and a couple bars. The top stash pocket hangs inside the main compartment using some of the space. The main panel pocket unzips easily and opens the top half of the pack. Two side pockets and the hydration pocket just inside the back panel complete the storage. The pack has one large compartment, a stash pocket on the top and a large pocket on the front with a vertical zipper. Testers liked the pocket arrangement on the Kompressor. The shoulder straps are more ventilated with the Airmesh straps, though the webbing covered half the Airmesh and restricted airflow. The nylon back on the pack with the smooth, flat back panel created a very warm surface for testers at most temperatures and got warm with little effort. It can be removed at slider buckles on the pack. The waist belt is 1-inch webbing with the buckle in the middle and is about 46 inches long. The elastic portion is not long and was fully expanded most of the time while testers (including our smallest tester with a 39-inch chest) wore the pack, not providing much stretch. The sternum strap is ½-inch webbing with a whistle and short elastic section. When testers pulled the sides of shoulder straps to adjust them, the strap would move but the webbing did not which made them slightly harder to get comfortable. The webbing is attached to the shoulder strap in only four spots and moves freely for the rest of its length. Most of the weight rested on the webbing at that point. ![]() With loads from five to ten pounds the straps were comfortable but above 10 they began to dig into testers’ shoulders. The shoulder straps are very thin with highly-ventilated Airmesh straps and 3/4-inch webbing running down the middle. With a full 2-liter bladder, no objects poked through and the back panel was comfortable. Testers had to pack carefully for it to be comfortable. With no bladder, the panel reduced the feeling of sharp objects in the pack but did not get rid of them completely. Our measured weight of 10.4 ounces was the lightest in the test and less than half of the other options. The closed-cell foam back sheet on the Kompressor is comfortable and gives the pack some structure while being very lightweight. ![]()
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