The main pocket is large enough for a full day in the wilderness. For the items that you want kept safe but don't need readily available, like your house keys, there is a small zipped pocket inside this main lid pocket that will keep your items safe. The lid pocket that is zippered and generously sized. It has two side cages for other routinely accessed items and each accept a 1L canteen. The cage compresses well and items feel very secure without the use of zippers. Other features I like include the large front cage that's great storage for your go-to items like map, GPS, camera, etc. If you are 6' or taller and are considering a pack, for fit alone, I recommend this pack. I am fairly tall and most other packs felt like I was wearing a toy. First of all, the Marmot Ultra Kompressor fit my back much better than every other pack that I tried on. I tried on many other packs and chose this one for a variety of reasons. Is a 20L, light weight, top loading day pack. In fact, this pack has taught me that Marmot may have some of the best finishing of any day pack in its price range that I've tried out. However, less expensive doesn't necessarily mean lower quality. They are generally the less expensive alternative to The North Face, Arc'teryx, etc. Now based in Rohnert Park, CA, Marmot celebrated its 40th Anniversary in 2014.The more experience I get with hiking/camping gear the more I like Marmot. Today Marmot is globally distributed and part of the Jarden Corporation. They liked what they saw and immediately changed everything in the line to Gore-Tex fabrications. He and Dave proceeded to spend seven nights in a commercial frozen meat locker comparing bags with and without the Gore-Tex fabric as well as testing the bags under fire sprinklers. Within a couple weeks Marmot had sewn prototype sleeping bags using the then-new Gore-Texfabric for field testing. In 1976, another meeting would change the future of Marmot when Reynolds met Joe Tanner of W. Just prior to Christmas 1973 Mike Hover called Boyce and placed the order that led to the formation of the company in Grand Junction. It was during this documentary production that cameraman Mike Hoover, who later worked on Eiger Sanction, saw the equipment that Boyce was using during the portion filmed in Peru. Huntley made the original prototype gear that Boyce was using on the Wolper Productions/ National Geographic documentary Journey to the Outer Limits, about the Colorado Outward Bound School. Boyce had secured an order for the climbing apparel used to make the movie Eiger Sanction starring Clint Eastwood. The company was founded in Grand Junction, Colorado by local resident Tom Boyce and by two University of California, Santa Cruz students, David Huntley and Eric Reynolds, who wished to make their own mountaineering equipment. Marmot is an outdoor clothing and sporting goods company founded in 1974 as Marmot Mountain Works.
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