After about two years of testing the stuff, we’re selling Dyneema® packs. We’ve made, used, destroyed on routes and on machines in here in Brooklyn, and even through pure idiosyncratic nastiness about forty different Dyneema® packs in this time. As a small company, CiloGear needs to be assured that we can stand behind what we sell. We can’t afford to put resources into a product that isn’t great. We’ve sent the non-woven Dyneema® packs on climbing trips to Pakistan and Patagonia and Turkey and even New York’s streets. Our woven Dyneema® has been protecting bike locks in NYC for almost a year, and turned into Dyneema® WorkSacks, our friends and colleagues wore them climbing in Pakistan, Peru and the Adirondacks.
Well, we’ve done the testing. Now it’s your turn…
The first Dyneema® WorkSacks that we’ve got available are a selection of 45L packs, the same as tested and used by those SuperAlpinist fellows over in Pakistan a few weeks ago. After reviewing the minor damage done to their packs after fifty days of climbing — after all, I did tell them to break the packs — we’re confident that this material is not just a superior blend of durability and light weight, but also good for using in a backpack for climbing.
Grabbing two representative packs from our current production run, I weighed the 45L Dyneema® WorkSacks in at 590 grams with the crampon pocket and 575 without the crampon pocket. That’s about 200 grams or so lighter than the regular 45L WorkSack, and these Dyneema® WorkSacks are much much more durable for the alpine environment.
The packs are $675 with the crampon pocket and $650 without the crampon pocket. Email us if you want one. There will be a bunch of pictures up tomorrow night, but I’m just too tired right now to take a decent picture and get it up online.
