Leland on the Patagonia Lightweight Travel Duffel:
So light and spacious, the Patagonia Lightweight Travel Duffel is durable to fill up of clothes for a long weekend or even a backpack for
grocery runs on your bike. Thanks to its own
self-storage pocket, you can have it handy at all times. The Lightweight Travel Duffel can also work well as a minimalist carry on bag.
Leland on Specifications:
The lightweight double-ripstop fabric in the Lightweight Travel Duffel offers excellent tear resistance, and the
webbed duffel handles easily convert to pack straps for hands free use. The main compartment is spacious with a zippered side pocket for small items and even stuffs into its own self-storage pocket with clip.
Specifications:
- Extremely lightweight double-ripstop fabric with excellent tear resistance
- Bag stuffs into its own self-storage pocket with internal webbing loop
- Main compartment is large with a zippered side pocket for small essentials
- Internal key clip
- Webbing duffel handles convert to pack straps for hands free use on the go
- 35 L / 2136 cu in
- (8.5 oz) 241 g
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Leland on Luggage:
Like all responsible outdoor recreators, the people at Patagonia place a premium on keeping things dry -- an especially important (not to say difficult) task when water is as integral to a sport as it is to fly fishing. For waterproof construction, Patagonia uses polyurethane-coated nylon -- fully impermeable, utterly bombpoof, and guaranteed to perform, season after season, on, in and around the water. For boat-based anglers, the Patagonia Great Divider is a boat chest par excellence, offering impact protection as well as splashproofness. The same product in a smaller size, the Sub Divider, makes a fantastic shoulder-slung SLR case for wading anglers, and does the same great job in a boat bottom. For those who fish where heavy weather is common, Patagonia's Stormfront Pack is an outstanding design for a waterproof daypack and features a removable shoulder harness and hydration compatibility.
As fly fishing luggage and gear bags go, these are some of the absolute finest around.
Leland on Patagonia:
One of the most admired and emulated firms in the outdoor marketplace, Patagonia is also one of the stalwarts in the fly fishing industry. From its humble beginnings as Yvon Chouinard's piton forging business to its ascendancy as one of the major houses in outdoor apparel and equipment, Patagonia has been marked by the same commitment to well-designed, well-made product, the same dedication to corporate social responsibility, and the same finger-on-the-pulse outdoor culture -- for almost forty years now. Chouinard, still the company's head and something of an enlightened monarch, is well known as an alpinist and a surfer, but is also an avid fly fisherman. Atlantics, cutthroats, permit: he knows what he likes for fish as well as for gear, and he maintains a hand in the processes of product design to this day.
Patagonia is a founding partner of '1% for the Planet', a league of environmentally progressive businesses, and the firm demonstrates its engagement with environmental stewardship in other ways as well. To minimize the inevitable ecological costs of manufacturing, Patagonia uses recycled-content fabrics where possible and -- more to the point, perhaps -- makes products that will perform at a high level for years without the need for a replacement.
Patagonia on the Lightweight Travel Duffel:
This superlight and stuffable duffel bag is perfect for home or for taking the show on the road; updated with lighter, more durable fabric.
Stuffs into its own pocket, yet holds a full quiver of traveler's necessities. Once you get back home, it carries your workout gear for the gym, or a rope, shoes and chalk bag for a day of cragging. A large, zippered main compartment makes it easy to toss in a few essentials or stuff it to the max. The webbing handles adjust for use as either a backpack or duffel. An exterior side zipper pocket organizes small items; the top pocket holds your wallet and phone. Compression straps squeeze the load down to reduce the duffel's size. Made with 1.8-oz 40-denier 100% nylon double-ripstop with a polyurethane coating and a silicone finish. Reinforced with 6.3-oz 210-denier 100% nylon double-ripstop with a polyurethane coating.
Patagonia on Patagonia:
Build the best product, cause no unnecessary harm, use business to inspire and implement solutions to the environmental crisis. –Patagonia's Mission Statement
Patagonia grew out of a small company that made tools for climbers. Alpinism remains at the heart of a worldwide business that still makes clothes for climbing – as well as for skiing, snowboarding, surfing, fly fishing, paddling and trail running. These are all silent sports. None requires a motor; none delivers the cheers of a crowd. In each sport, reward comes in the form of hard-won grace and moments of connection between us and nature. Our values reflect those of a business started by a band of climbers and surfers, and the minimalist style they promoted. The approach we take towards product design demonstrates a bias for simplicity and utility. For us at Patagonia, a love of wild and beautiful places demands participation in the fight to save them, and to help reverse the steep decline in the overall environmental health of our planet. We donate our time, services and at least 1% of our sales to hundreds of grassroots environmental groups all over the world who work to help reverse the tide. We know that our business activity – from lighting stores to dyeing shirts – creates pollution as a by-product. So we work steadily to reduce those harms. We use recycled polyester in many of our clothes and only organic, rather than pesticide-intensive, cotton. Staying true to our core values during thirty-plus years in business has helped us create a company we're proud to run and work for. And our focus on making the best products possible has brought us success in the marketplace.
