Author: John Clark

No matter how far you plan to travel or how long you plan to be gone, there’s no better pack than the Osprey Farpoint. Osprey’s product video makes a bold claim, so it was down to a weekend up in the high country of Tasmania to run the Farpoint 55 travel pack through its paces. My experience with travel packs began a few years ago with a three week backpacking trip to Borneo. Our plan was to cover most of the Malaysian side of the jungle island and with multiple flights and most other modes of transport, a hiking pack wasn’t going to cut it, so a travel pack was the answer. Since then I’m sold on travel packs for trips that don’t involve extensive hiking and tenting because for the short carries from airport to terminal, or from station to accommodation being able to carry gear on your back instead of lugging it over one shoulder or dragging it over uneven ground just makes sense. Osprey claims the Farpoint (for men) and Fairview (for women) to be the perfect companion for the long weekend, and to celebrate the end of teenager number one’s exams we tossed our gear into the back of the Hilux and headed south into the highlands beyond mobile reception to explore and search for aquatic highland gold (aka Tasmanian brown trout that take on...