Women's icon 6 4500
"An honest review from a dedicated woman who shed hunts, Backcountry big game hunts & does anywhere from 10-20 miles a day with her husband in Coastal & East side Oregon. Honestly the pack itself is super nice, it fits my wife really amazing and distributed the loads amazingly (30-70lb loads, multiple trips). Material is amazing, very light, durable as far as we can tell so far— She needs to beat on it some more & put it through the PNW coastal test(blackberries, devils club, etc) also it has plenty of space/pockets. The not so great part— too much stuff going on. Zippers, zippers & more zippers everywhere, buckles everywhere. The buckles are a pain and when you have been hunting in 20° weather your hands are cold and the flip tabs on the buckles hurt your fingers. The buckle design is slick though. She's 5'-1" & 120lbs with a compact body and DD's(non fakies lol) so she really wishes she had more adjustments somehow in the chest & torso areas. With DD's the chest strap dang near chokes her and she really struggles to unclip it. She can't even squeeze the tabs to get the chest & waste strap undone to get the pack off because they are so dang tight. But honestly it may just need to be broke in more—she shot a huge bull here in Ukiah Oregon Oct 26 and got to really test it out(roughly 50-60 miles on pack so far). We'll make some more adjustments, we still have 4 blacktail tags to fill. We understand a lot goes into R&D, we love kuiu and will always be team kuiu & kuiu strong. So this is not meant to be a bad review, just honest because I want the best for my wife and her body while doing gnarly big game packouts. And she was super bummed she couldn't get it in Verde lol. She sold her brand new Exo k4 because she likes your pack systems better."
