I think plenty of others have mentioned these points but wanted to put it out there anyhow just for thought since I see people whining every time a bag doesn’t have aquaguards.

I think aquaguard zippers are actually a negative, not some standout feature. The purpose of aquaguards is to keep your gear inside your pack from getting wet.

• Heavy Rain: Aquaguards are not seam sealed and have gaps, so if you are literally standing under a downpour for a few minutes your gear will be soaked. However, nobody does that, common sense is use an umbrella or maybe run/walk quickly to cover like 99% of normal people do.
• Light rain: Reverse coil non aquaguard zippers and common sense are fine.

I lived in a hot, dry area before so I didn’t get a chance to actually test aquaguards. I currently live somewhere that rains practically everyday I commute by train/bus/walking and I haven’t even once needed to actually use my aquaguards. In this city, I haven’t seen a single person …

Or do I need to have bags from multiple brands to qualify???

Top left: GR136 Junkmonkey Bot left: GR136 Metrorunner tactical Top middle: Boundary Supply prima system Top right: Direct Action dragon egg mk1 Bot right: Code of Bell Xpak Evo sling

and the rest is history!

First of all, I love minimalist travel from all angles. I like the planning, and the gear, and the prep, and the actual unburdened travel. Secondly, I am also just as unwell as the rest of you and like to talk about it online with a bunch of other obsessives.

BUT there are some lines we’ve crossed that we were not meant to. We’ve strayed too far from the light and we have started scaring my friends (and potential future onebaggers). So what advise do you believe goes too far? Or what advise do you believe comes up way to early for people looking to get started onebagging?

I’ll go first: Don’t cut your toothbrush in half, only bring the blades for your razors, or chop a piece of soap into 8ths. You deserve that extra 2 inches of leverage and grip. The extra gram of weight is worth it. You are worth it.

US tariffs announced today include 47% on Vietnam and 34% for China. I’ll bet that effects 80% of the US travel products market. Even the US manufacturers are going to get hammered on the raw materials.

“May you live in interesting times.”

Background: I’m planning a 2 day overnight trip to Boston and will be bringing just my Arc’teryx Mantis 1 (1.5L) crossbody bag (stay tuned for that post!). The bag is obviously not big enough to hold a water bottle, but I like to have a water bottle with me throughout the day (I walk between 10-15+ miles a day while traveling so hydration is important).

Generally I buy a plastic water bottle at the beginning of my travels and reuse that same bottle for the duration of the trip, regardless of the length. I have tried bringing metal bottles, Nalgenes, etc. but still ultimately prefer just grabbing a “single use” water bottle from a vending machine. Reusable bottles feel too heavy/bulky and burdensome, whereas a single use bottle is much lighter and easily replaceable.

With the crossbody setup though, I don’t want to carry my plastic bottle in my hands all day, and don’t want to drain 16oz of liquid at once and then toss it. So, here is my solution: a …

Salutations group, I’m gonna be going on a four week trip to Portugal, Spain, France, and Italy here, and will be rocking the one bag lifestyle. To be frank I did not try my darnedest at cutting weight or getting the coolest new gear, but I think it turned out alright. Please give me your thoughts!

• Osprey Transporter backpack

• Two pairs of pants

• One pair of shorts

• One long sleeve shirt

• One short sleeve shirt

• One lightweight button up (fancy fishing shirt)

• One crewneck

• One rain jacket

• Six pairs of long socks

• Two pairs of short socks

• Seven pairs of underwear

• One belt

• One pair of sneakers

• The camera is a Minolta XG-7

• Rocking a Vivitar Series One 35-85mm lens

• One fuck ass Amazon tripod

• One beautiful shutter release cable

• Extra batteries for the camera in case I get hungry

• Nine rolls of Kodak Gold (200)

• Three rolls of Ultra Max (400)

• One roll of Ektar (100)

• One roll of Tri-X (400)

• Two rolls of expired Kodachrome (64)

• Wall adapter

• Anker portable charger

• Sunglasses …

Feedback? What would you add, change, remove?

I always keep this in my everyday backpack. Partly to be prepared for anything in my daily life, and partly to be able to be able to go travel literally a minutes notice without packing anything.

I am working on reducing the size and weight of it. But it is also a “Merlin bag” that is intended to contain whatever I need when I need it.

This is that it contains atm:

Powerbank and a short cable. Pen. Folding ruler. Miniature USB-C flashlight (O-light iR2). A carabiner. A ziploc bag. A piece of paper. A miniature deck of cards. Small ziplock with scissors (nail scissors, also usable for thread, white and black thread, 2 needles).

Cloth. Little bottle of lotion. Little bottle of soap. Little bottle of sunscreen. A couple of bandaids. A hair tie. A tiny container with 4 different meds. Massager. Glasses cloth. A pack of paper tissues. (Travel tooth brush gone atm) and travel size toothpaste. Deodorant.

3-in-1 eating utensil. …

Hi all

r/HerOneBag has put together a spreadsheet of solid toiletries.

We’d love the inputs from r/OneBag readers too!

If you’d like to comment or add your favorite solid to the list please head over to https://www.reddit.com/r/HerOneBag/s/c3PCupeltz and leave a comment.

We would also like to thank OneBag for allowing us to announce this here. Also thanks to u/-Nepherim for technical guidance for the sheet.

Edited for typo

I have quite a few t-shirts from Outlier so figured I’d try my hands at writing something of a comparison or review on the differences between them. Also see some crappy photos of what looks like me in essentially the same t-shirt over and over.

Firstly, my main usecase is I travel for work, mostly 4-7 days at a time out of a carry on bag so I try to pack efficiently, only bringing one t-shirt per trip so merino with its’ odor properties is crucial. I live/work/travel in northern Europe with weather shifting between cold winters inside the arctic circle (-30C) to fair summers (25C) outdoors, but also ducking in and out of airports, planes, trains, hotels, malls etc so merinos’ thermo buffering really comes in handy. To state the obvious in colder temps the tee is a base under some layers until temps rise and the tee is a standalone top. I’m also a basic bitch and like dressing in monochrome slim fits. I’m 180 cm, about 80 kg and wear M/32. I prefer cut …

[edit:] the links are up, cut two t-shirt, longsleeve, loose tank and futbol dropping thursday

i’ve been spared the impatience and (thank you tyler and outlier) have received a DP/Helix Cut Two t-shirt to test the new DP/Helix fabric in advance of the possible drop the coming week (according to the spring/summer preview - dp/helix should come as t-shirt in cut two, fútbol, loose tank and longsleeve).

the fabric page not yet up, i’ve no more details than what the inside label says: “made in manhattan with japanese fabric / 100% polyester” and whatever insights my uninformed inspection of the fabric might provide:

the fabric seems to be some kind of mesh (or perforated fabric), smooth on the outside, textured on the skin-facing side. not as smooth (nor shiny) as something like satisfy’s auralite or patagonia’s lighter weights of capilene. things with a similar feel to the touch to them might be reigning champ deltapeak 90, arc’teryx cormac or …

preface:
Big ups to Tyler and Outlier for thinking of me to review Outlier’s new DP/Helix Cut Two T-Shirt. Thank you so much! I recently “announced” on Discord that I’m going on a hiatus for a while (just waiting to confirm with some folks I recently sold some stuff to that they received the packages I sent them). But Tyler reached out before I unplugged, so I’m sticking around for another week or two to answer questions on the ‘cord and here. While I haven’t officially disconnected yet, I should mention I haven’t really been checking the ‘cord for the past month or so and have basically been on a “soft hiatus.” I also haven’t actually read anyone else’s review of DP/Helix because I didn’t want to be influenced by them—I just know some were posted.

On that note, I unfortunately didn’t have time to take fitpics and fitvids; I’ll be sure to take those ASAP, and edit them into this post within the next week or two. For now, you can just refer to some of the other reviews that—after …

Futurelittlebigs

Big freedom in a short but roomy short. Cut loose and easy, with a 6” inseam and with all the rugged durability of Futurecloth. Elastic waist with paracord 550 drawstrings, an inside/outside 3Bar adjust, right side key loop, and four powermesh pockets all multiply into a pure and spacious comfort. Bulk Buy Eligible.

Now available in Seeing Red, Olive Territory, Dark Navy and Black

DP/Helix Cut Two T-Shirt

An extra dry t-shirt experiment using a next generation Japanese polyester unlike any other. DP/Helix combines Teijin’s Solotex, helix-shaped PTT fiber with their Deltapeak yarn spinning technique to create an exceptionally soft and dry fabric that challenges how we expect a synthesized material to feel.

Now available in Matteblack

DP/Helix Futbol

An extra dry futbol jersey experiment using a next generation Japanese polyester unlike any other. DP/Helix combines Teijin’s Solotex, helix-shaped PTT fiber with their Deltapeak yarn spinning technique to create an exceptionally soft and dry fabric that challenges how we expect a synthesized material to feel.

Now available in Matteblack

DP/Helix Loose Tank

An extra dry loose tank top experiment using a next generation Japanese polyester unlike any other. DP/Helix combines Teijin’s Solotex, helix-shaped PTT fiber with their Deltapeak yarn spinning technique to create an exceptionally soft and dry fabric that …