Author Topic: 1970s Karrimor Pamir rucksack  (Read 17309 times)


Innominate Man

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Re: 1970s Karrimor Pamir rucksack
« Reply #46 on: 09:31:36, 22/07/16 »
Is this one more your style IM?


http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/GOOD-QUALITY-VINTAGE-KARRIMOR-CANVAS-LEATHER-RUCKSACK-EXTERNAL-FRAME-1950S/291809659993?_trksid=p2047675.c100009.m1982&_trkparms=aid%3D222007%26algo%3DSIC.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D35923%26meid%3Dbb09e31c544a47d4b4c3d179285d8641%26pid%3D100009%26rk%3D5%26rkt%3D10%26sd%3D191927554249
Thanks Ridge, You are right.
I actually have something similar to that which I picked up cheap but I use it as a boot bag which I dump my boots in when I've finished a walk. I thought it seemed more original than one of those purpose made boot bags that you see these days.
Not an ideal way for a rucksack to end it's days but better than being thrown away.
Only a hill but all of life to me, up there between the sunset and the sea. 
Geoffrey Winthrop Young

Glyno

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Re: 1970s Karrimor Pamir rucksack
« Reply #47 on: 13:47:26, 21/08/16 »
My latest aquisition - made in Accrington, Lancs on 22nd Jan '95, a Karrimor Trail 25.
Used by a mate at work for carrying his lunch. I asked him ages ago that if he ever wanted to sell it to give me 1st refusal. He retired on Friday and let me have it for a fiver!
I wonder if Plum and Teal will ever make a comeback?



Dyffryn Ardudwy

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Re: 1970s Karrimor Pamir rucksack
« Reply #48 on: 20:03:19, 21/08/16 »
If it's anything like the quality of my 1982 Alpiniste 65L sac, then it will last the owner many years of use.


The Alpiniste model was made of a slightly heavier material than your Trail 25 sac, almost identical to look at, but the weave and density of the material was more like a heavy duty canvas.
it's the very same model used by all the high altitude climbers of that period, Messner, Bonnington,Doug Scott, Dougal Haston, Don Willans.

Look at any Everest photograph from the early 1980s and the sac is somewhere in the photograph.
I recently found my receipt for the Alpiniste sac, £64 from Crickhowell Adventure Gear in Brecon, that was good money back then, especially when the Berghaus Trango Extrem Gortex jacket retailed for £124.
Ive only used it once, when i helped out marshalling for a Welsh 3000 charity event years ago, i had to carry just about everything, including emergency rations for competitors and emergency shelter for myself.

Really comfortable on ones back,and it has a very impressive waistbelt and three chest harnesses, but the sheer weight of the extra kit almost crippled me.

Karrimor gear back in the 1970s early 80s came with a lifetime warranty, just a shame the company went bust, because Sports Direct may own the brand name, but the quality of the gear is a joke compared to what it used to be.

Recently i was looking at the sacs in Cotswolds, their tissue paper thin in comparison to the sacs of thirty years ago.
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Innominate Man

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Re: 1970s Karrimor Pamir rucksack
« Reply #49 on: 10:37:56, 22/08/16 »
My latest aquisition - made in Accrington, Lancs on 22nd Jan '95, a Karrimor Trail 25.......
I wonder if Plum and Teal will ever make a comeback?


Did they go out of fashion ? (I'll need to check my wardrobe in that case.) You did well there it looks like new. That's the second bargain you'e landed  O0

Only a hill but all of life to me, up there between the sunset and the sea. 
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Re: 1970s Karrimor Pamir rucksack
« Reply #50 on: 13:30:00, 22/08/16 »

The Alpiniste model was made of a slightly heavier material than your Trail 25 sac, almost identical to look at, but the weave and density of the material was more like a heavy duty canvas.

yes I know, I have one  :)



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Re: 1970s Karrimor Pamir rucksack
« Reply #51 on: 18:11:03, 22/08/16 »
A good many years ago, having had an Alpiniste with twin lid straps and smallish buckles/fasteners, which I struggled with under very severe winter conditions: I decided that it would make a lot of sense to just have a single large lid strap & buckle.
As your photo shows - this is the solution and I did buy (at a bargain price off e-bay) a later model with such a lid fastening.
I did find it far easier to handle when my fingers were frozen.
The knock-on effect for me was that despite mine having this brilliant 'cold weather' beating lid arrangement, the whole rucksack was so well made that it's weigh was prohibitive  :-\


I still use it although revert to the older one which is lighter when I expect to be lugging around more weight (but those two straps still bug me when I have frozen fingers) !!


And yes, in case anyone wonders, I do have a rucksack problem - but who's perfect ?
Only a hill but all of life to me, up there between the sunset and the sea. 
Geoffrey Winthrop Young

 

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