I am head over heels excited to bring you a wonderful review I had the chance to do on the impeccable High Sierra sport company. I’ve been on the hunt for a nice sized pack for hiking and backpacking for the past few months, and finally found a great one. I sure would have loved to have it when I was on that long 3 hour hike uphill on Mount Fairview when we visited Lake Louise, Alberta this summer!
I do have a bit of a qualm about this pack. It doesn’t rest nicely on my neck and I wouldn’t be able to hike with it wearing a teeshirt. A jacket would be fine. But having the shirt on, it irritated my neck a bit. However, I must admit — it’s still brand new and with a bit of wear I’m sure it will fit great on my body!
It’s a nice sized pack hey? It’s quite roomy inside too.
Browsing through other company websites, I narrowed down my choice to High Sierra as I thought they had the best selection to what I was looking for. I ended up contacting them just before Christmas to see if I could do a review and giveaway on this website of mine, and they surprisingly but oh so gladly agreed! I was on cloud nine when they accepted my request. See? I so love you guys!
You get to receive THIS back pack too!!
See how over excited I am about this? Couldn’t stop those smiles with anything!
The Cirque 30 backpack is classified under the Hiking/Outdoors category of their website and retails for about $120. You can view the online description they put on the pack below:
| Item Number: 59102 |
| Suggested Retail: $120.00 |
| Size: 21.5″ x 12.75″ x 9.00″ |
| Capacity: 1830 cubic inches |
| Weight: 2.0 lbs. |
| Materials: Grid-Weave Duralite®, Mini-Weave Duralite®, Duraweave (bottom) |
| Colors: |
| 0: Black |
| 611: Amazon, Tungsten, Black |
| 801: Chipotle, Tungsten, Black |
The Chipotle (orange) color is the one that I have for one lucky loyal reader/winner of mine! The other is for me to — of course tell you all about, and try out for myself!
This is when I first received the packs, I couldn’t wait to snap a picture on my regular camera so the blackberry was in charge. What beaut’s eh? Clearly I’m a huge fan of orange packs as my gym bag is orange too!
It fits me so snugly. Even a pocket for the cell. I have my priorities straight ;) The zippers on this are great quality. Even the boyfriend agreed.
All in all, the pack is extremely well constructed to carry an array of products from heavy to lightweight. You can bet your dollar that I’ll be bringing this pack to Ironman Canada with us for our my vacation this year! As an active couple, Scott and I — we benefit highly from a great product such as this High Sierra Sport Company backpack, and I am so glad I got to review and represent their company on my website.
So, what do you say I get this giveaway started! Enough reading, hey? I know you all want to win a pack!
Rules:
- Comment once saying “Enter me!” or something of the like. Duplicates will be deleted.
- Tell me what you’d use this pack for, if you won. Yes that’s another comment for you!
- Follow High Sierra on Facebook. (They actually do a random drawing for a free bag, once a week!)
- Follow High Sierra on Twitter.
- Tweet about this giveaway: “@spiffykerms is giving away a High Sierra pack! http://tinyurl.com/spiffykermshighsierra-givewa” (Yes, the “Y” is missing. TinyURL did that).
- Blog about this giveaway on your website and tell me you’ve done so in the comments.
You read that correctly — you are allowed up to six comments per person. Pretty good odds if you ask me! Any more, and they will be removed by myself. Remember, I can check to see if you did any of these comments/tweets/follows/FB entries. If you comment saying you’ve done something and you haven’t. Your comments will be removed.
Contest is open to contestants worldwide and will close April 15, 2010 12:00 noon EST. The winner will be chosen through random.org.
That’s me waving good bye to you!! :)
Good luck all.
88 Comments
Awesome giveaway! That backpack is gorrrgeous and I love that orange colour. Enter me, please!
Nancy says: Done and done! Good luck Leah! :)
I wanna enter to win the High Sierra Hiking Backpack!
What would I use this pack for? I’ve recently started hiking & carrying water & such in a little drawstring backpack knapsack is annoying. It just doesn’t sit right. So I would definitely put this baby to some use. Mountain hiking & maybe even mountain cycling!
I blogged about your giveaway!
http://wordsjeet.com/?p=120
Enter meeee :)
I would use this backpack for EVERYthing, but mostly for holding all my work things when I’m waiting for the bus in the morning, and hiking/biking!
Omg I’m so spamming your comments! But I followed them on twitter, and tweeted it, lol
Nancy says: Melanie, you qualify for another comment since you followed them on twitter AND tweet’ed it. Go ahead and enter another comment.
Enter me! WOOT!!
I tweeted….
We have some great hiking trails around our house. Keith is a big moutain biker and he rides the trails all the time but usually on Sundays we go hiking together so he can show me all his dare devil feats…haha!
i posted it on my site….
Oh pick me! Pick me! :)
I would totally use it for long hikes! My friends would be jealous… ha! :)
Enter Me! =D
I just became a fan of High Sierra on Facebook… following!
Now following High Sierra on Twitter!
Nancy says: Des! You have twitter? What’s your URL?
Tweeted about the giveaway!
Enter me!
I’m hoping to get more active and try out geocaching this year – this would be awesome to have!!!
My friends and I are trying to hike an 800 km trail in our province. Not all at once, mind you, but we get out for a couple of weekends a year, knocking off around 40kms a trip. The pack would be great for stowing daytrip stuff!
ENTER ME! I love this bag
Now following on TWITTER!!
AAAAAAAAAAAND Facebook :)
Def. want this for hiking around here!! It would be so helpful with all it’s pockets and how they fit! Great give away Nancy
That looks like a great backpack! I love me a good backpack.
Enter me!
I would use this backpack to hold Hailey’s gear as we go for family hikes this spring/summer.
Enter me, Please!
How I’d use this pack? Give it to my boyfriend (is that allowed?) because that thing looks huge and I’d make him carry everything if we went on our hikes anyway. He already does!
Also blogged it @ http://www.justcaptivating.com too!
I said this to you on twitter, but I followed them on twitter, fan’ed it on FB, and tweeted about the giveaway on my twitter.
Now that I think about it, I want it SO BAD! Haha. Orange is my boyfriend’s favorite color and if it wasn’t $120, I’d whip out my credit card and buy it for him right now! I don’t think I’ve ever been this excited about a backpack hahaha
Yay!!Love it.Enter me please<3
I will actually use this for everyday use too if i need to lug things around (heavy books etc) BUT we are planning LOTS of camping trips this year and all summer and this would be absolutely perfect to take out there and on hikes etc ahh exciting!
I became a fan of them on facebook
I’m following them on twitter :D
Tweeted about it : http://twitter.com/Cinda/status/11713369928
Enter me! Enter Me!
I’d use this to take all my assorted stuff to and from school everyday. I lug a lot of crap around.
Ok, so since I finally figured out that one comment = one entry ….
I tweeted about this giveaway
http://twitter.com/justcaptivating/status/11712483258
I became a fan of them on facebook! I think that counts as following.
Andddddd I also added them as a friend on Twitter! And now I can see their tweets hehe :D
Enter me!
I love reading your blog =)
I think I’d be giving this backpack to my BF because he doesn’t have a nice backpack for hiking or camping. But I might decide to keep it if I win *muhahaha*
I’d use it for going camping this summer or on short day trip adventures into the wild!
Following on Facebook
Following on Twitter
Tweeted about the giveaway + following you :)
Oh! Enter me! :) Love the colour and sounds/looks like an awesome pack!
I would use this pack for hiking the east coast trail or maybe use for when I travel around Canada after I graduate from College! :)
Just signed up to follow on Facebook. That is awesome that they do a draw each week for a pack! Wicked!
I think I just successfully added them and you yo Twitter. Let me know if I messed it up. (Have too and explore it now) :)
Round of applause! I just figured out how to “tweet” too! :)
I would love to win one of your backpacks. I could store my camera in it when I go on hikes. Looks really sturdy to carry all those extra goodies.
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