Though it's lovely to get long days walking, I find that in real life a lot of the walks I do are like the one I did today, 6 miles or so, more or less taking a sandwich somewhere more interesting than the door step on a sunny day.
Contents of rucksack: sandwich, purse with a bit of money and bus pass, pocket size binoculars, reading glasses, phone, car keys, small bottle of water. After half an hour or so I stuffed in a light fleece. If there had been a cloud in the sky I might have carried a paclite waterproof. Compass because it lives there.
My smallest daysack is an Osprey talon 33, which is fine in winter when you have extra layers, spare gloves etc, but today it seemed far too big. So when I got home I started looking at small daysacks, but just because they are small doesn't mean they come cheaper (reminds me of miniskirts in the 60's!)
What do other people do? pull all the straps tight on a bigger daysack? Or give in and write a pleading letter to Father Christmas?
There's a Lowe Alpine airzone 14L in the Cotswold sale. I thought that might be going too small, but I suppose all I'm looking for is a handbag to take for a walk.
Any advice would be gratefully received.