If you participate in an outdoor picnic sport, it is extremely important to organize your luggage efficiently and reasonably. In addition to helping you feel more comfortable in carrying your luggage. On rough roads, a well-balanced backpack will also help you keep your balance and avoid unpleasant falls.
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Here, OST Vietnam will give you some tips to help you have a safe trip and make the most of your backpack.
Why do backpacks have so many different compartments?
Having multiple compartments helps you organize your luggage more efficiently. You can distribute weight more efficiently and keep essentials quickly accessible.
1. Top drawer - Backpack's brain
This is the perfect compartment for storing small, frequently used items like snacks, navigation tools and headlights. Using it correctly not only saves time, but also avoids having to rummage through your backpack when you want to find something.
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2. Front compartment - Kangaroo's bag
You can make use of this compartment to separate your wet and dry luggage. In addition, you can also put compact items such as notebooks or pens so that they can be easily taken out when needed.
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Note: Do not put heavy items in this compartment to avoid losing the center of gravity when moving.
3. Side compartments
This is a great little corner to store frequently used items like lip balm, snacks. The plus point for this compartment is that you don't have to open the whole backpack to get your luggage.
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4. Water tank compartment
Almost every backpack will have a compartment to hold a water bottle. They will usually be designed on the side of the backpack to make it easy to reach for your water bottle quickly.
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Why do backpacks have many types of straps?
The backpack's straps help compress the device inward, maintaining a tight center of gravity and improving hiking ability. Moreover, some types of backpacks are also equipped with chest straps to help support and fix the backpack not to move during movement.
Many backpacks also have closed zippers that make navigating the weight a lot easier, they include side zips and bottom zips. Some models also have a shoe compartment at the bottom, flexibly expanding the capacity for you.
How to avoid overpacking?
For long distances, what you should keep in mind is the "Less is More" principle - You won't want to carry a whole house on your back when crossing rough, rocky roads. Struggling with the choice of what to bring or leave behind? Try following these steps:
1. Gather everything you want to bring from sleeping bags, clothes, food,...
2. Sort and bring only the items you feel are absolutely necessary. Note that you only bring essential items, do not cheat by adding "Luxury" items.
3. Now, get rid of (at least) half of the remaining equipment in which there are "Luxury" items. You also know that you don't really need those, right?
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Do you really need to carry paperback books? Of course not. If your backpack is still overloaded after reducing the baggage, keep skipping the "Luxuries" until things fit better.
The weather forecast that it will rain that day, what to do?
Don't let the weather get in the way of your passion. There are still many options to help you both protect your luggage and protect yourself from the discomfort of wet weather:
1. A waterproof backpack - Currently, there are many types of waterproof backpacks available on the market. You just need to choose a backpack with good waterproof material and you can safely continue your journey.
2. Waterproof compression bag - If unfortunately caught in a heavy rain, your clothes will definitely get wet. Of course, you don't want to experience the cold and wet feeling that seeps into your body. At this point, a waterproof compression bag will help you effectively separate dry and wet clothes.
Source: Matador (Droplet)
