Please would you help me with my Hiking bag selection.

[snowslider]

floating lids are when the top of the sack is on straps both front and back and will detach. Either it lets you load the sack beyond normal capacity or you remove it to reduce weight. It's pretty much standard on proper alpine sacks.

[John Manning]

Aaaargh... wish I'd spotted this thread a week back.

I reviewed the Quest for TGO some months back, primarily on the strength of its performance on the John Muir Trail. Grand pack -  comfy, good capacity, good weight...

.. but something I'd not appreciated was a weakness in the hipbelt, which came to a head by the end of the TGO Challenge in May. The front of the belt is simply sewn on to the hip fins rather than the main pack, and the right side has almost come completely apart.

[mikehike]

my lightwave is 900g the new lightwaves are heavier.

I would certainly recommend the origonal poster checks out the lightwave sacks
http://www.lightwave.uk.com/en/rucksacks_wildtrek_series.php [nofollow]

good value very comfortable stableand light.