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With the wiliness and trail-ready cunning of a lone wolf, The North Face's El Lobo 65 is ready for any mountain adventure with a lightweight aluminum endoskeleton and tough ripstop material with waterproof zips. Keep your gear carefully organized with an internal sleeping bag pocket, exterior gear loops, and extra drop pockets while an E-VAP foam back panels provides dry comfort to your back. This product was selected for the Outside Magazine 2009 Buyer's Guide.
The North Face El Lobo 65 pack is a multiday package of leading-edge technology. Pack carries a full load while complementing your body's natural movements.
Wearing a hefty backpack can make you feel as quick and agile as a turtle. The North Face thought you’d appreciate a pack that moves with your body so that hiking over those rocks and deadfall with a full load is easier. The El Lobo 65 Backpack features The North Face’s new X-Radial suspension system: Aluminum tubes form an X, and the X’ s central hub allows the tubes to move forward and backward to match the sway of your hips and shoulders as you walk. Just because this suspension is flexible doesn’t mean you have to sacrifice support—carry 60 pounds in El Lobo without wincing. The North Face also gave this expandable pack a padded, breathable back panel for comfort and a removable hood that converts into a large lumbar pack for day hikes from base camp.
Inspired X Radial® suspension makes carrying your expedition gear in The North Face® El Lobo 65 as comfortable as wearing slippers.
This 65 liter pack from The North Face features water-resistant zippers on the hood. Its sleek compound-curved, molded E-VAP™ hip belt cups the iliac crest to maximize comfort.
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| Access: | top and sleeping bag |
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| Access / Loading: | Top/bottom |
| Access Types: | Top |
| Adjustable torso: | No |
| Approximate volume: | 3,480 cubic inches |
| Approximate volume - metric: | 57 liters |
| Average weight: | 4 lbs. 4 oz. |
| Average weight - metric: | 1.93 kilograms |
| Backpack style: | Lightweight backpack |
| Bottom Access: | Yes |
| Capacity: | 3480 cu in (Medium Regular); 3950 cu in (Medium Extended) |
| Cargo Capacity: | 3480. cu. in. |
| Cell Phone Pocket/Sleeve: | No |
| Detachable Pack: | Yes, removable hood |
| Fit: | Unisex |
| Fits torso: | 14-17 inches (Small); 16-19 inches (Medium); 18-21 inches (Large) |
| Fits waist/hips: | 31 - 40 inches |
| Frame Sheet: | Yes |
| Frame Type: | Internal |
| Frame material: | HDPE/ aluminum X |
| Front Access: | No |
| Hydration Compatible: | Yes |
| Load-lifter Straps: | Yes |
| Manufacturer Warranty: | Lifetime |
| Material: | 210D ripstop nylon, 420D HD ripstop nylon |
| Number of pockets: | main compartment + 4 pockets |
| Number of stays: | 2 |
| Organizer Panel: | No |
| Other Electronics Pocket(S): | 0 |
| Pack Fabric (Primary): | 210 Nylon Ripstop |
| Padded Laptop Compartment: | No |
| Pockets: | [External] 1 top, 1 front drop, 1 front zip, 2 side stretch water bottle |
| Primary Use: | Backpacking |
| Rain Cover: | No |
| Recommended Use: | Multiday backpacking trips |
| Shipping Surcharge: | Yes |
| Shovel Pocket: | No |
| Ski Carry: | No |
| Sleeping Bag Compartment: | Yes |
| Snowboard Carry: | No |
| Spindriftcollar: | Yes |
| Stays: | Tubular aluminum |
| Sternum Strap: | Yes |
| Sunglasses Pocket, Lined: | No |
| Suspension: | X Radial (tubular aluminum flex frame), molded E-VAP back panel |
| Top Access: | Yes |
| Torso Adjustment: | Yes |
| Torso Length: | S - 14 - 17 in.M - 16 - 19 in.L - 18 - 21 in. |
| Trip Length: | Extended Trip |
| Volume: | [Med, Standard] 3480cu in (57L); [Med, Extended] 3950cu in (65L) |
| Waist Belt: | Yes |
| Weight: | [Med] 4lb 4oz (1950g) |
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Best in Class, they nailed it! | |
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| Hey there, I live in Alaska and I have been climbing for over 40 years. I read the other chaps post, and I cannot believe I am going to spend my time standing up for NF. Well, here goes. I am going to choke on this. I climb both rock and ice, and don't have a preference for either one. I am 55 years old and I still climb every, single, solitary weekend. If the ice is hard I will do a wall. If it is soft I will snow shoe up a ridge and find some crust to a peak, and as soon as we have break up I am out on the rocks. Now, about this pack. First, I couldn't believe it was made by North Face. I am 14 years older than this company, and I have learned to trust the classic companies. Give me a Grivel! Where is the Vaude 68+ 10? North Face went through a phase where it was more about the trend than the mountain. Okay, we all know that, but take a look at the top of this pack and look at the shape they have bent the top frame into. It is a "half moon shape" away from the head. As I said, I have been climbing for over 40 years, but I have never, ever put a pack on that was in a 65+ ltr range where the people in the design room said, "What happens when the climber puts on a helmet while climbing?" A lot of pack companies will talk the talk about their designs, but this pack is the only pack that I have EVER put on where I could wear my climbing helmet and not notice. I do a lot of teaching and guiding, and I have to turn around and look where my charges are ALL the time. Pack on, rope OVER the top of the pack, AND my helmet on, and I can STILL learn back and look up. I know exactly how many pack companies there are who thought of this. About that "thin" padding thing. I strip my gear down to absolute minimum. One of my favorite places to climb here in Alaska is a 7 mile hike in, I can pick from 6 different routes of 6-7 pitches, and they are from 5.9's to 5.11's. I am a Trad Climber. I don't use bolts – ever. As a courtesy to other people who view life differently, I do not pound them flat with a rock. However, I bring my hexes and chocks. This means that my pack, with no water, weighs 52 pounds. The is a weight that is completely stripped to bare bones. I need another 3 pounds of padding like a need an anvil in my pack. Like I said, I am 55 years old. When you are 55 years old and hike 14 miles total in spring, through snow, to climb a 7 pitch 5.10 trad route, email me and tell me the back foam is too thin and the hip belt is too big. You don't wear a climbing pack on "your back." You set it on your hips. The padding is absolutely perfect. They put a lot of time into planning every centimeter of how much pad to put there. Notice the sleeping bag compartment. I stuff a -20 degree bag in there. Why -20? That is my summer bag. Then one set of clothing, a 650 weight down sweater that folds up into a melon sized ball, and my mountaineering shell parka that you are welcome to cut off my body when you find me. Best arranged hip belt/helmet room top end design of any pack ever made. Most people, sorry lefties, are right handed. Begin pulling the pack off your shoulder. Being right handed, the average person will often, not always, swing the pack to the right. Not necessarily the best way for the lower back, by the way. Notice that many people free their left shoulder and left hand to grab the pack with the left, to ease the pack off their right shoulder. Then the right arm begins to take over. That puts that bright yellow zipper to that compartment that they put on the face of the pack, right there, and in your face. Quick, grab that zipper, it is one of the only ones on the market that you can operate with a climbing glove on, and pull back that zipper, and out comes your down sweater! Good luck finding a pack on the market that has zipper toggles you can hold while wearing large climbing gloves. Now, it is -10, typical climb in Alaska, and you have to open a pocket on your pack. I don't like the lid snaps. But everybody seems to like the two snap design, rather than the one, large, center snap like those on the old Grivels. Big, big mittens, and with those big ones I don't have to take OFF my glove. The compartment on the face of the pack. They worked, and reworked that until they got it right. It is ironic that my least favorite outdoor company made the best alpine climbing pack I have ever put on my body. Everybody is doing it, but this lid pops off and has a strap to go around the waist. The hip adjustment straps on this cruiser? Best design I have ever put on. It isn't minimalist, nor is it a overly designed. Go to REI. Load the pack up. Then pull a helmet off the shelf. Put the pack on and then put on the helmet. Look straight up at the ceiling. Now, your wife has begged you to lead a sheet of ice, but now the wind is going about 30 mph. You both have been climbing for 10 hours, and you are not getting any younger. It is a 2, 000 foot high sheet of ice, and she is above you. You are going to have to look up and start yelling, and talking her through her next steps. This is one of the only packs on the market that is a 65+ 10 ltr pack that will enable you to keep your helmet on, while looking straight up if you have to. Was this pack designed as a "climbing pack"? No, not really, but it has all the elements that I need. One change into one more layer of clothing. Emergency sleeping bag for sudden temperature drops. Suspension for a 55 year old climber who should probably be out playing golf to carry 30 pounds of gear, two empty water bottles, and 3 days of dried food. Total for a 4 day climbing expedition, 52 pounds including a 60m 10.3mm. There in are 20 carabiners and 4 locking carabiners in that set. With my gear set, if I team up with another climber, I can climb just about any slab of "g" in the world. North Face, I have never liked your company. But, you nailed it. Congrats. I am giving you a 5 on this. I never, ever give out 5s. Tim in Alaska | |
| Yeti907 at REI on 05/15/2009 | |
Just can't get enough.... | |
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| When I first got the pack, I couldn't keep my hands off of it. It has to be one of the most technical bag I have ever owned.. Yet it is simple and refined. We'll go from the bottom up: The sleeping bag compartment: did not only fit my Mountain Hardware flip, but also my Therm-a-rest tech blanket AND Therm-a-rest pillow. The main compartment: housed all my essentials, and food - without being bulky when completely packed. Mind you, I recycled a lot of clothes in 5 days, but I was prepared for any cold snaps in the midst... The super secret pocket on the front: Was the hide-a-way for my rain cover, but it also housed my rain coat... No complaints.. AND - the top of the pack made live a breeze once we hit camp and were off to our day hikes. Bottomline: I shunned TNF ever since they became the fashionable thing - and their tech department took a nose dive... But, I think with EL LOBO they have made a full comeback... I picked this pack over the MNTN Kona 55 and I am super-glad... | |
| Swag McGuire at REI on 09/14/2009 | |
Recommended Pack | |
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| I've used this pack on treks in South Carolina, South Manitou Island (Lake Michigan), and on a 6 day expedition including the Presidential Range of New Hampshire. I am very pleased with the toughness of the fabric, straps, and weight distribution system. The pack is easy to load and unload and the stretchy middle pocket is such a great idea, you can stuff rain gear in there for quick access in a downpour or whatever else you need to get to hurriedly. The various pockets and tie downs are extremely helpful as well. The AT in New Hampshire is known for its demanding terrain and near scrambles at times, and el Lobo kept the weight comfortable and well-balanced in both strange ascents and awkward descents. I suggest breaking the pack in well before continuous use and trying different locations within the pack for your heaviest things. I don't know if it fits all body types well, I am a lanky guy, and its good for me. | |
| Wm. at REI on 08/07/2009 | |
An Excellent Purchase | |
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My old Kelty external frame was worn out so I began researching a new internal pack and came across 'el Lobo'. I bought it without ever seeing it or trying it on, which is silly, of course. But it has been excellent in the mountains of North and South Carolina. It distributes weight very well, and I've overloaded it on purpose with good results as well. The various gear pockets are great, offering flexibility and options for storing your gear and accessing it in different ways. It is rugged and handled rain on and off without a problem or a pack cover. I have not been in serious showers with it yet. To conclude: its versatile, tough, and well worth the money. | |
| W. D. K. at Backcountry.com on 05/29/2009 | |
Great Pack | |
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This pack has very good support and distributes weight well. When it's fully loaded it doesn't feel nearly as heavy as it really is. It has great features, I'd list them but they're all up on the tech specs. It does have a mesh pocket on the right side waist strap that's pretty cool (perfect for a camera). Very comfortable on long hikes, the X frame is awesome. I think this is a great pack for a good price. | |
| Scott Bowers at Backcountry.com on 06/09/2009 | |
Not Good | |
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| Not good. Their is no back padding at all. It's a plastic sheet with a fabric cover very uncomfortable. The hipbelt is huge. Returned it. The packbag its self is nice | |
| JBr at REI on 04/20/2009 | |
