🎒 Lowepro Whistler Backpack 450 Gray: The Ultimate Adventure Gear for Outdoor Enthusiasts Review

This bag is not intended for hiking or mountaineering. Also not suitable for travel. This is strictly for transporting heavy equipment where weight is not a concern. I had to send mine back as I was just looking for a backpack with a camera mount.

Excellent backpack for rough conditions, I carry it with me mt. Biking, snowboarding and that was great. No breaks or signs of wear, even with 30+ pounds of gear and what I would call more normal use. I spent over 8 hours in the rain in western Washington shooting eagles and my gear came out dry. Overall I am very happy with the performance of the backpack. You can see in the attached photo that it fits my Sigma Sport 150-600mm comfortably.

Good how many of you reading this; I was also looking for the perfect backpack. It's complicated, we all have specific requirements, needs and uses. For me, this is a "medium" backpack. My last EDC was a Lowepro Protactic 450 AW (first version) for a few years. It was a staple but probably covered 60% of my needs. The interior was great, but of course the lack of another compartment for extra stuff was impractical. I ended up buying some standard molle pouches which I attached to the outside…