Peak Design BTR-45-BK-1 travel backpack Nylon Black Unisex 45 L

TL; DR - Amazing backpack if you travel a lot. Very durable, packed with featuresI'm a who loves backpacks, especially ones that fit my exact needs. I travel around pretty frequently and always try to pack as light as possible. Always trying to avoid checking a bag when I travel and only using carry on's. This backpack has always been on my radar, but just couldn't stomach the price. Eventually, the little voice inside my head that's always whispering "treat yo self" finally got the best of me. And I took the plunge. It got here right before my 3 week trip to Europe.As soon as I got it, I was blow away with all the hidden features that it had. Peak Design is very good at not just product design, but also integration with its other products. I paired this with the small camera cube and medium size packing cube. The ideal set up for this bag in my opinion. I can carry most of my camera stuff in the camera cube, and about 4-5 days of clothing in the packing cube. With some room to spare! This set up leaves a small cavity at the top of the bag which I used to put with my toiletry bag or my Bose QC35 headphones along with a travel blanket. It all fits very snug and fits like a puzzle.The hidden straps at the bottom of the bag were way more useful to me that I really thought they would be. I typically travel with a crew neck or hoodie because airplanes are typically cold, but when I'm walking around or its warm at my destination, I'll take it off and use the straps to secure it on the outside of my bag. I've also used the straps to carry a blanket, works beautify and its very secure.The middle diver in the bag can be unzipped and folded away if you just want one big sack to work with, I prefer to leave it in place, has a well padded laptop and separate tablet compartment, and a few hidden pockets in the bottle holders. My only gripe with the backpack would have to be those afore mentioned bottle holders. I feel like they don't hold bottles snuggly enough. But given everything else about this bag, I can can't deal with it.The zippers are very solid, and water resistant, as is the whole bag. Personally tested this out when walking around Paris in the rain. My belongings were perfectly dry inside! Another big feature about the bag is its stow away backpack straps and waist belt. I always remove the waist belt of any backpack I get because I hardly use it. In this backpack, you can't remove them, but they do fold away behind some cleverly designed magnetic flaps! And when they are stowed, you don't feel any weird bumps and won'y even know they're there. You can also stow away the backpack straps under those same flaps and make this thing a full blown duffle bag. Which has come in handy more times than I would've thought.Final thoughts. Given how much I travel, I wish I would've bought this bag sooner. Cant recommend enough! The Value/Convience factor is just as high as the price haha. But well worth it.

Recently went on an extended weekend trip and brought this Peak Design Backpack on the plane. It held everything I needed and then some. Expanded to 45L which is great if you need extra room and the airline (Air Canada) allowed. It fit into the overhead compartment.Extremely durable material, along with creative & practical design makes this a great backpack for travel.The quality of the materials are high performance. The pulls are really tough, the zippers don't get snagged and are very high quality. Many compartments to house different items so you can be very organized.Almost everything about this backpack is wonderful. The only thing I can say that they can improve on is the shoulder straps have a sternum strap, which is not easy to connect to the other shoulder strap. Maybe use a better system, with two sternum straps with a metal clip on both ends that clips onto each other.Other than that, a real quality product. I hope to use it more in the near future. I will use it as my exclusive travel backpack.

I purchased this bag for myself to take on our trip to Japan. I don't know how I used my previous bag for so long. This bag combined with the tech pouch, wash pouch, and the 3l sling fit perfectly with room for my over headphones and a 16inch Macbook pro. All the organization and quick access made travel better than I have ever experienced. With the expansion capabilities, I was able to expand it enough to fit additional purchases made on the trip but still have easy access to my belongings. A larger bag but still got it to fit underneath all of our airplane seats. Once we got back my wife purchased the bag as well cause she saw how nice it was.The build is great, I got black and love how sleek it is. A phenomenal travel companion

I will update this review as needed because I have not used this for the intended trip, but this bag is pretty amazing. The build is soft-sided, yet the material feels sturdy, water-repellent, and the bag holds it's shape well, which I feel is necessary in a good travel bag. There is plenty of access points to the two main large compartments, which expandable to 45L from 35L. I am used to backpacks being shorter than this, but taller size that this bag offers makes more sense without adding too much to the overall size. For example, this can comfortably accommodate shoes without eating up the centrally-located majority of space of shorter bags I've had.There are a number of features that seem thoughtful that I will try and write about in the update. To name a few - the backpack straps can be tucked away under magnetic flaps, leaving a single handle if you chose to use this as a duffle. There is another flap on the bottom with conceals 2 straps that can be used to secure large exterior objects, like tripods, if utilizing the two exterior open side compartments. Also, there are two hip pocket straps that unfold from under that flap that have zippered compartments. These are just a few things, but I will update more and have pictures. Thanks for reading so far!