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Scroll down for pack thumbnails - most packs are
now being shown on the Ultra Light Alpine Packs page.
Our
Alpine Packs are famous for their simplicity, failsafe
ruggedness, and outstanding performance level. They have been
used on many Expeditions around the world over the last 30 years
and have adapted well to general backpacking. McHale
Packs are Custom Made entirely in Seattle Washington.
Our packs comfortably carry more weight per cubic inch of volume
and per ounce of weight. People that go out regularly year after
year know that pack performance trumps pack weight. These are
not fragile packs and yet they are not heavy. They are made from
our standard selection of tough US made and quality imported fabrics
( we tear test all of our fabrics to make sure they meet our standards
) and are built to our failsafe reliable high standards.
Back
in the mid 80s we called our climbing rucksac 'rocksac'. This
is were the acronym SARC came from: Super
Alpine Rocksac - like the one pictured
below and like the pack (S-Sarc) Mark Bebier climbed Mt Forakers
Infinite Spur with in 1989. Click photo for a larger image.
Perhaps the most widely known climber currently using a McHale
Pack here and there is Dan Mazur of SummitClimb.com
Please understand
that even though we show 'models' of packs, the way the customizing
really works is everything is an option and can be mixed and matched,
but it is far easier to start with the examples below and add
or subtract from them...... Most of the packs that were once on
this page have evolved into UL packs on the UL Alpine Packs page
in the main menu.
Click
on the photos below to go to their detail pages where prices are
shown
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