For several years, I traveled exclusively with a top-loading backpack — the kind thru-hikers take on the Appalachian Trail — and I carried that thing everywhere. I stuffed its 65-liter body with ...

Backpacks for women are a curious thing. Finding a backpack that fits my frame as a woman has been the bane of my existence. The bags are either too long and smack me in the back of my head, too wide ...