The Guiding Light allows for dynamic movement whilst climbing, skiing, and hiking or tramping with trekking poles. It has easy access to any backcountry tools such as: snow stakes, ropes, tripods trekking poles or ice axes.
Aarns Guiding Light was developed alongside New Zealand climber. It features the flow motion harness and hip-belt, this allows for a greater range of movement and improved performance.
This highly innovative bag allows you to stow and remove tools without taking the pack off.
It also has a excellent feature that all you climbers will love; a zip able rope door is located on the pack behind the climbers head. This allows for the climber to pay out or feed in rope, preventing those tangled messes on windy days. This flap can allow a hydration bladder hose to pass through it and a loop to hold your bladder on the inside of the pack.
The side pockets can store anything from snow stacks to tripods. These pockets are reinforced and feature a zipper for easy expansion.
The Aarn Guiding light can incorporate any model of Balance Pockets, preventing premature fatigue.
- Approx Volume S: 55L L: 60 L
- Weight (max/min): S: 1.85/1.75kg; L: 1.95/1.85kg
- Key Fabrics: 1000D, 500D Codura nylon, 220D ripstop nylon
- Colour: Navy/grey
Measuring Torso and Hip-belt length
To determine your torso length, measure the difference in height between the top of your hipbone to the mid-point of each shoulder. You can do this yourself, as follows:
Stand with your back against a wall with a hard covered book and pencil in hand. Place the book vertically against your sides with the bottom edge of the book resting on top of your hipbone and the back edge against the wall. Mark the height of the lower edge of the book on the wall. This is the height of the top of your hips.
Now place the book vertically by the side of your head, with the back edge resting against the wall and the bottom edge resting on the mid point of one shoulder (half way between your neck and the end of your shoulder- this is where the center of the shoulder straps should lie). Mark the height of the bottom edge of the book on the wall. This is the height of your shoulders.
Now measure the difference in height between the 2 marks on the wall- this is your torso length.
If your Torso Length is less than 36 cm, choose the short (S) torso length. If it is more than 38 cm, choose the long (L) torso length. For 36-38cm either torso length will fit.
The mid-to-large volume models have hipbelts available in 3 sizes. The medium size, M is standard. To decide whether you need a S or L size, use a tape measure to measure your hipbone length; measure from left front corner of your hipbone, around the back of your hipbone to the right front corner of your hipbone. This your hipbone length. (It does not include the measurement across your tummy, as in the usual hip circumference measurement).
If this distance is less than 55cm choose the S size, if it is greater than 65 cm, choose the L size.
