Bought new Nike backpack!

[rockin]

My daughter wants to go backpacking and camping. Her friends and her have made the plan to go in April 2012 - it's too cold right now. I bought her a new backpack! I got a Nike (pink) got it for $18 at TJ Maxx - instead of $50 elsewhere. Oh yeah!

[Candy]

Good job, on finding such a great deal on a Nike product! I am not sure how old your daughter is, but you might want to pick up a can of pepper spray, too. Especially, if this is a girls only trip.

[campclose]

Pepper spray and girls only! I would be sending a parent with them if they were not 18 yet!

Awesome find... My daughter wanted a Nike bag too and I picked her up a sport bag for around the same price.

[IndianaHiker]

That sounds like a good deal on that pack. However what type of outing are the girls planning on doing. I am assuming that they are just going out for a day hike and not backpacking. If so Nike really doesn't make any gear suitable for backpacking trips.

[Lamebeaver]

Unless I'm missing something, and I just checked the Nike website, they don't actually make what most of us would consider backpacks. They're basically sports bags and book bags.

A "real" backpack is designed to carry most of the weight on the hips, not the shoulders, and has room for a sleeping bag, etc.

[briansnat]

If your daughter is really going backpacking, she's going to need something a lot more substantial than a Nike pack.

I suspect you probably got her something similar to this:



For backpacking she would need something like this:




Or this:

[MountainMan22]

Regardless of if the backpack is good enough to go backpacking with, that was a great deal. I love those low end discount retailers because you find designer brands at really good prices. I do about half of my clothes shopping in those places.

[IndianaHiker]

Sure it was a great deal. People were just saying that the Nike pack is made with a specific use in mind. That being said backpacking is not the intended use for that pack.

[outwest]

Great deals are fine but make sure its useless too. I fell into that trap a few times, and the first I actually repeated before for a camping tent set. Some silly thing years ago that had the tent + extra supplies (the ones I never used).

[briansnat]

Originally Posted by MountainMan22

Regardless of if the backpack is good enough to go backpacking with, that was a great deal. I love those low end discount retailers because you find designer brands at really good prices. I do about half of my clothes shopping in those places.

It's not a good deal if it can't be used for its intended purpose. I remember a friend who was new to backpacking telling me about the great deal he got on a tent he expected to use for backpacking. It weighed 22 lbs.