Golite Jam2 (backpacking)
Golite Ion (overnighters)
Mountainsmith Seraph (wife's)
Salomon Raid P Evo 20 (biking/running)
Homemade tiny sil/Dyneema pack (overnighters)
Homemade sil/Dyneema pack (backpacking)

Not as bad as I'd feared. But I've "recycled" and retired about 3-4 other homemade packs over the past few years.

Wow, left this thread yesterday afternoon and here I am, not counting daypacks or fanny packs it appears I have fourteen starting with a canvas Sacs Millet, an external frame A-16, Jenson Rivendell and ending with a couple of mostly homemade.
The most used is a Wild Things Andinista or possible a Sierra West Half-Dome, the least a Gregory Z-Pack.

Let's see.... at least 7
GoLite Pinnacle
GG Murmur
GoLite 24 daypack
ULA P-1
and 3-4 old hydration and daypacks laying around.
Time to sell some stuff!

Four in total.

In order of affection:

!/ Lowe Alpine cerca early 1980's 90 liter cordura bombproof heavyweight monster. I've been packpacking around the world with this thing four times, hiked all over from Oz, the Himalaya, Pyrenees, Rockies and it will probably out live me. I never want to carry it again, however.

2/ Golite Ion: Current go- to pack. I've evolved from the Lowe in about four years. Day/ over night pack, but recently used for a three nighter and could have done a couple more nights above the tree line. Superhero pack- mine's unmodified.

3/ Grivel 35: Severely cut down, but it is framed with a padded belt for when I take my 4x5 camera kit etc. It doubles as the wife's pack when we go out for a while.

4/ NF Verto 26: Just bought it, not sure I like it. Still getting it wired.


Sold and tried:

GG Murmur- too much volume and felt fragile for above tree line use, real comfy. I hated the roll top- YMMV.
ULA Circuit- too big for my load, this was my transition pack. I hated the roll top on this one too- YMMV
ULA Relay- Great, but the S/M too small for me. I'm looking for a M/L if anyone has one for sale.

I'd love a MLD Super Burn, but I'll wait to wear out the packs I have first. By then something spectacular in pack technoloy will have happened, ha ha ha...

Edited by fredfoto on 08/26/2011 10:31:18 MDT.

I just have 3

Mariposa plus. Old design. Soo. To be updated to the aluminium frame.
Golite breeze. Still love this pack. Am I the only one who still uses one of these.
Old osprey aether 60. Hasn't been used in a while mostly just a loaner.

being a deal hound and a bit of a hoarder (I'm working on both, but it's never easy to pass up a great deal), I've got lots, several of which I've never used.

REI Stoke 19: school, biking, and dayhiking pack

Stoke 9: biking, running in cold weather

Jam 2 ('09): multi-day or 'weightier' training trips.

Ion: only overnighters so far, but I want to get more out of this one

REI Jet UL: I use this one mostly for soccer gear at this point, but it could fill a niche between my Jam and Ion if I went with a lower volume sleeping pad at 3-4 nights out, I guess.

TNF Terra 30: This was an early acquisition that's prettymuch just a loaner now.

Jansport Carson: Massive external frame I keep around in case one of my friends ever invites me hunting.

Vaude steeprock 30+8: I got this one super cheap, and my little sister is the only person to have used it so far (except for my family's cat, which urinated on it and a few others stacked in my closet)

2 Pinnacles: I haven't used either yet, but one is a loaner and the other may get sold or donated.

Also, I just got a ULA CDT from Will, and it's in the mail. I wonder how many of these it will render obsolete for me.

Oh, and an flash 18 I've been meaning to sell since I got the Ion. I should do that.

I also have a few laptop bags that I got for cheap, used for awhile, and eventually replaced/upgraded/just wanted something new. I did some rough accounting awhile back and realized that, excepting cooking and clothes, I could equip about 5 people to hike at the same time with just my redundant gear (provided they were about my size).

Thanks pyeyo, now I feel melancholy at my excess.

all 3 are used regularly.

sub 5 overnights MLD Burn
2-3 nights GoLite Jam ('05)
4-7 nights ULA Ohm

i have this odd little habit of dumping stuff i dont use for over 3 months. keeps my gear closet minimal, organized. less is more!

I apologize if anyone now feels depressed by the reality, there is no guilt associated with this thread unless the pets are gnawing on each other for sustenance and the applicable children are seen dumpster diving on a regular basis.
Spousal units and grlfrndz think all packs look alike [well except for mine when I tried to explain putting packs inside packs was a normal storage solution] and besides, UPS and FedEx drivers need something to deliver.
I like fredfoto's comment "but I'll wait to wear out the packs I have first." Great bag o' wheat what a novel concept and I salute you.
Short of disappearance by theft or an animal digesting them most this stuff is pretty bulletproof unless as stated you use it for an above treeline haul sack.
I have a couple of tents, a tarp, and 2 sleeping bags - packs are my weakness, now where can I find a powder blue Granite Gear .... ?

None of which are UL
GraniteGear Vapor Ki for 2-3 day trip ( 14 lbs and under, anything more and my back begins to complain)
Deuter 45+15 for 5-6 days (I've only used it on one 5 day trip so far, and removed the lid to save 5 oz.)
and my first pack(I've only been doing this a year)a Deuter 55+10 which I'll sell just as soon as I convince myself that in the depths of winter I can still get my gear in the smaller Deuter :)

I have a bad lumbar disc and the Deuter packs work well for me.

Just have two, ULA Catalyst and OMM Jirshanca.

Will be trading up the Catalyst soon for an Aarn Pack.

Cheers,

Racking my brain....

Camelback MULE

Golite ION

ULA AMP

ULA OHM

BPL/ULA Arctic Pack

BPL/ULA Prototype Arctic Pack

Osprey Aether 60 (2003)

I like them all and wouldn't get rid of any of them. I would like to update the OHM to the newer hipbelt. The Amp shoulder straps aren't my favorite but I'll use it till it wears out.

I own at least 10 packs and have used 5 of them in the last month.

Several of my packs are dedicated to my fishing trips as they tend to acquire an aroma that makes these packs a poor choice for non-fishing backpacking trips.

LARGE PACKS:

Dana Designs Terraplane
REI Cruise UL 65
Camelback Commander (backcountry ski pack MUCH modified)
Tough Traveller Day-and-a-Half (Given to all us Nordic Patrollers who patrolled the '80 Winter Olympics)

DAY PACKS:
Vaude
Outdoor Products camo hunting pack
National Ski Patrol day pack
REI Flash convertable (from stuff sack to UL day pack)

FANY PACKS:
Five of various sizes. Two are Ski Patrol 1st Aid packs.

Edited by Danepacker on 08/31/2011 16:26:07 MDT.

Oh, I do have a pile of packs, they are beside the pile of shelters and under the pile of bags.

It all still fits in one closet and I only have two packs on order.

I'm going to use your sales pitch to sell my better half, "it all fits in one closet"

my biggest pack is a Golite Pinnacle- almost exclusively used for winter trips

ULA Ohm - 3 season general use

modified Ion- short SUL trips

Opsrey Talon 22 long day hikes/winter day hikes

Osprey 5.5 short day hikes/trail running

Marmot Kompressor- when I plan on a lot of day hiking out of a base camp

Kifaru Scout- big game hunting

Dana Designs Gallatin lumbar pack- big game hunting when I don't need as much pack as above

on my wish list a MLD Burn and if I ever draw a goat tag- Kifaru KU3700

I don't know, you tell me... I'd have no BPs if it were not for you

thanks Dad, I'll strive to do the same for mine

I have a damaged blast (quite a bit of duck tape), a zero (to replace the blast when the duck tape no longer works or it just gets too heavy from all the duck tape), a zpacks exo on the way (to use when it's a cross country bushwacking route so I don't have to duck tape the zero)and a Nimbus ozone which was such a comfortable backpack I could not bring myself to sell it.

I have a marmot zephyr and a marmot garmsal that are my beat to death training packs
and are both extremely comfortable 2 lb day packs that can be used for weekend trips if need be.

Zero :(

One is on the way though

ULA Catalyst
Kelty Yeti 4300
REI Great Star
Dana Designs Astralplane
And soon one of William Zila's packs

I have a couple other packs that I'd use for day hikes and cycling, and more for motorcycle and computer.