OUR HISTORY MAKING BACKPACKS

Our Mission

Develop a backpack system capable of carrying heavy loads in multiple situations and environments. This load carriage system should be comfortable, durable, and simple. The backpack, or rucksack, should be able to easily adapt to any situation that requires equipment transport by foot.

Our History

The motivation to begin this project stems from my obsession with backpacks. Early in my military endeavors, I had a series of bad experiences with issue military backpacks. The last disaster occurred while on a long-range patrol. The shoulder strap on the ALICE backpack disintegrated. I ended up repairing the shoulder strap with 550 cord, but you can imagine the abuse my shoulder took! After that, I tried multiple after market backpack accessories without much success. I was fortunate enough to do some training with a team from the RAF Regiment where I managed to swap for a Berghaus ROC with one of the Regiment members. This backpack became my prized possession and served me well during the 1991 Gulf War.

Time passed and I started to accumulate a number of packs in search of the perfect backpack. Most of the backpacks had great features, but were not quite what I had in mind. I own a bunch of internal frame backpacks, but decided an external frame backpack offered the most options. I looked at all of the external frames on the market and found none of them met my needs. So, I finally decided to design a rucksack that would meet my needs.

Kevin Aston
Owner