Osprey
4 guides tagged Osprey
Buyer's Guide
The Best Kid Carriers for Hiking (2026)
The carrier is the piece of gear that decides whether hiking survives parenthood. We ranked the four framed kid carriers worth the $198 to $315 they cost, from Osprey's flagship Poco Premium to the entry Poco SLT, around the two specs parents consistently miss: torso adjustability for the adult, and the listed maximum load that quietly sets the clock on the whole era.
Read the guide →~14 min read
Review
Osprey Talon 22 Review (2026)
The Talon 22 is the pack every other daypack gets measured against: a listed 22-liter panel loader with Osprey's AirScape backpanel, a real hipbelt, and two decades of trail reputation behind it. Here is where it earns its price, where a cheaper or more hydration-focused pack beats it, and who should actually buy one.
Read the guide →~8 min read
Buyer's Guide
The Best Backpacking Packs (2026)
The pack is the one piece of gear that touches everything else: it carries your shelter, your sleep system, your food, and your mistakes. We ranked the 2026 field of 60 to 65 liter haulers by the thing that actually decides a good trip, how a loaded pack carries at mile ten, from the suspended-mesh benchmark most fitters reach for first to the $90 entry pack that gets beginners onto the trail at all.
Read the guide →~14 min read
Buyer's Guide
The Best Daypacks for Hiking (2026)
A daypack is the one piece of gear you touch on every single hike, and the difference between a good one and a merely fine one shows up in mile six, not in the store. We compared the seven packs we would actually carry, from the benchmark Osprey Talon 22 to a $70 Gregory that embarrasses packs twice its price, and ranked them by fit, organization, and how they behave when the trail gets long.
Read the guide →~13 min read