Quote Originally Posted by bernardlanguillier View Post
I have decided to buy from New Zealand an Aarn Natural Balance Pro with additional front balancing units.
Excellent, I'll very much look forward to the review--those had caught my eye when I was doing a lot of backcountry flyfishing here in the Southern Appalachians, but I eventually decided that with Crotalus horridus being pretty thick on the ground, I'd better be able to see my feet.

Otherwise, I'm glad to hear the MR 80L packs seem to hold promise--20x24 might be pushing it, though! Most of the solutions I've turned over seem to hang up on having a circumferential compression strap having anchor points so much narrower than the loadout--definitely would like to hear what you come up with.