NRS: Paragon Pack System

4 Reviews

Our Price: $54.95

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Description

NRS: Paragon Pack System - Altrec.com Product Description:

The epitome of versatility. Rather than being forced into buying an entirely new dry bag, the Paragon™ Pack allows you to retrofit your existing bags into the ideal portage pack. Advantages are abundant with the Paragon™, including padded back and shoulder straps, and a lumbar support-suspension system. Everything is adjustable for a custom fit to your body and your dry bag. Accepts items up to 50" in circumference, and fits bags from 9"- 16" diameter. The Paragon™ works equally well with Pelican cases and IK's.

Back Panel is 23"L x 8.75"W at Base
Waist Belt expands up to 60"
Chest Harness fits up to 49"
Bottom Support is webbing and mesh
3 stays
Weight: 2.6 lbs.

Seattle Area Customers: This item is AVAILABLE ONLINE (may or may not be available in the Sturtevant's Bellevue/Puyallup stores).

Customer Reviews (4)

NRS: Paragon Pack System - 4 Reviews

Paul Knoerr - 2008-07-23
Used to carry a Blue Plastic Food Barrel Overall the Paragon Pack harness did as it was advertized. We used the Paragon Harness to carry an approximately 55L blue plastic food barrel on a whitewater wilderness canoe trip in northern Canada. We purchased the Paragon harness because the available barrel harnesses are made for specific barrel sizes and this barrel was slightly different sizes and the Paragon Harness could likely carry any size barrel. The barrel when full at the beginning of the trip was just less than 50 pounds at the beginning of the trip. The harness fit the barrel very well, and did a a decent job of comftably carrying the barrel on rocky portages. My only gripe is that the Fast-tex buckle attached near the top of the harness is only sewn through the fabric and not the flexible frame material inside the padded back panel. This was noted to start pulling seams during our 13 day trip. This seems to be a fatal design flaw and surely carrying 50 pounds is not an unreasonable expectation for the harness. In addtion that same Fast-Tex buckle would slowly slip, which loosened the load, and required a knot being tied in the 2 webbing strap to fully secure the load. These two issues realy should be resolved in this product as this is a very critical component on the Paragon pack and would require a significant "jerry-rig" if the sewn in patch pulled through during a trip

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CG - 2009-09-30
Fits Pelican 1510 nicely Nice fit on a fully packed Pelican 1510 containing much photo equipment. Overall, well made & good price BUT, as noted by reviewer above, the buckle attached near the top of the harness is sewn through fabric not frame material inside the back panel so may become problematic after I use it more...

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Steve - 2008-08-12
purchased for Boundary Waters trip in MN The pack system did exactly what we wanted it to do. Used it for a large tent and six thermarests, all in a large poly liner, as these items would have taken up way to much space in a duluth pack. Weight was less an issue for us than bulk. It carried more like a duffle with good straps than a high quality internal frame pack, but the latter prices out at $300 or more, so $50 was a great deal.

Is this Useful? - Yes - No ( 2 of 3 thought this was useful.)