Are Rucksacks Threatened A Progression Toward Overweight Technology Geeks?
I guess I am what you would call a diehard outdoorsman. Give me a toasty campfire, a can of beans, pan fried fish , a tent on pine bows, and an old fashioned rucksack, and I am happy. I really don’t care for technology. Everyone talks about “staying connected” constantly. For me, connection occurs when I hear the wind rush through the trees or look up to view the Great Dipper or Orion. All of those tech geeks and their constellation of friends on various social media sites. I wonder what peaceful memories they have in common. unlikely any like those I have of the full moon shining on the surface of a high Sierra mountain brook, or while looking at the North Face of Half Dome from the basin below, sweat dribbling onto a worn large backpack. Shoot, all those gadgets tech geeks require these days. They can have them.
The only thing I require is in my weathered, trail-tested rucksack. By rucksack standards, I guess that mine is a relatively large backpack. Shoot, I doubt whether the majority of Americans and their technology induced rotund waistlines could haul my large backpack. But it holds all that I need, no strings. or wires attached. I don’t find it too onerous at all, even when climbing in the High Sierras.
My rucksack is a large backpack made by The Northface backpack company. It is an internal frame backpack, built for enthusiasts similar to me. I thought about a Swiss backpack, before to acquiring my Northface backpack. It was a large backpack too – an internal frame backpack style. Honestly, the style, design, and orientation of the two was very alike. I’m not at all sure what made me finally choose the Northface backpack . It as likely as not had to do with how the large backpack felt on my back. Large backpacks must feel good on a person’s back, for certain.
You know, life is so accessorized, so designer. I mean really, telephones have been replaced by cell phones that have so many colors. I know some high maintenance ladies from the valley that have a different colored cell phone to match the color lipstick they wear! Cell phones, for them, are a lot like shoes! Who needs it! God forbid they should want to acquire a rucksack with me! My old large backpack made its choice easy. It came in two colors: black backpack or red backpack. That’s it, and that’s the way it should be. Keep it easy. Keep it natural, like the green earth.
I hope none of that new-fashioned technology initiated stuff makes its way into the rucksack industry. I have noticed though, in adverting for The Northface backpacks and Swiss backpacks that even the internal frame backpacks are starting to offer crazy add-ons for items like solar panels to power cell phones. Shoot, what was once a large backpack is going to give way to a bus to carry all the technology crap humans are a slave to.
Has anyone paused to consider what this addiction to technology is doing to kids? You can’t find a kids backpack now that isn’t changed beyond identifiable form to haul ipods and iphones and kindles, cell phones and doodads I’ve never seen prior. It is kinda funny and kinda sad simultaneously. I doubt children could carry an internal frame backpack, no matter of whether it was a large backpack or a small rucksack. The Northface backpack and Swiss backpack companies have to be worried given the trend toward fat, techno crazed kids.
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