Black Diamond Distance 15 Pack Review 

I really appreciate that feedback! Thanks for watching!

Absolutely! I'm glad it helped!

It totally is a winner!

I'm glad it helped!

Thanks! It's my favorite too...

So glad you found the right pack! You won't be disappointed. Thanks for watching!

Ah, the dogbone holds the hydration bag. But I also found another feature. Inside the front zippered pocket on the right side, there is a tiny emergency whistle. Wife wouldn’t let me try it at full blast, so no idea how loud it really is. Beats having nothing. Very cool pack.

@@rjohnson5120 I'm glad you figured it out (you are correct that it is for the hydration bladder). The Distance 15 is a really good pack for hiking and mountain adventures, I'm sure you will enjoy it!The whistle is a pretty cool feature as well! Thanks for watching!

I totally understand your confusion. The lid design is actually super stable. With the strap at the top as you can see at 3:32, the hook that straps into the loop on the lid keeps it from flailing period. I've never had the the strap come undone while running, even when the pack was barely loaded. Also from my experience the lid doesn't bounce around all that much, and if it has for me I haven't noticed it because of how light the overall lid is. So to answer your question in short, you shouldn't have to worry about the to lid being to loose or bouncing around because the strap design works really well. If you are super serious about getting no bounce whatsoever, I guess you could tighten the elastic strap all the way down, although it is very hard to do that. Hope this helps!

For sure, Black Diamond is by far the most intuitive in all of their designs of any company I've seen.

Doesn't look too bad either. Might get this one as well

Sorry for the delayed reply, hope it's still relavant haha. The pack does boune a bit when it isn't totally full but its barely noticeable depeding on what you are carrying in the pack. I find it works well no matter how much or how little I load into it. Hope this helps.

@@ToNewHeights LOL, that's fine. I ended up buying it late last fall and using it over the winter. I did notice the bounce, which wasn't that big a deal in the winter (moving a lot more slowly). I did end up buying another Salomon pack in the spring, though, so I now own both!

Thanks for the support! I have two Hydrapak 500ml (17oz) soft flasks, and so far for my experience they stay in fairly well. If the flasks are completely full, they do tend to be a little bit more unstable, but after sucking down a little bit of the water it's totally fine. I bought these flasks at the same time as the pack, having the same problem as you with not being able to find the BD ones...

Hydrapak make the flasks for BD so easily interchangeable....

According to Black Diamond's website their backpacks are made in Asia and distributed to sellers in Europe. Sorry for the slow reply and hope that answer's your question!

You should be good with the large!

Not directly. You kinda have to lean down or lift the shoulder strap up to your mouth to drink, which while I wish I didn't have to do that, it's not that big of a deal. Most soft flasks like the one I showed in the video actually come with a "straw lid" that you can use instead of that, and from my experience it works really well.

Not waterproof, but water resistant!