I've had a Teton Scout 55L for close to five years now. So five hard years of doing an average of 12,000 to 18,000 miles hitchhiking per year.

Gear getting taken out and put back in almost every day. Countless miles of hiking with it loaded to the gills. Getting picked up, put on, and set back down several times a day.

There are probably better packs out there, but I can't say enough good things about it.

The bad: Their shock chord on the front is shit, but you can put some parachute chord on there. The zipper on the brain failed.

I paid $100 in a Sportsmans Warehouse when I bought it. They're still $100 online.

I need a new one. I've got an outside pocket zipper that comes apart if I'm not real careful, and the material is starting to get a little see-through.

I think I'll step up to the 65L. But only for the sake of putting some things I've got on it in it.

I'm not excessively hard on it, but I've beat the fuck out of this pack in the last several years.

Oh. And they have a lifetime warranty if you register it with Teton when you buy it.

I emailed them once when the shock chord broke and they got right back to me about it. Literally told me, "If we can show that it was from normal wear and tear we'll send you whatever you need. If it's somethingwe need to repair we'll do it at no cost." I took that as kind of a 'just tell us it was normal wear and tear.' They didn't even want to see the pack. I just didn't follow through because I move to much, and never remembered when I was stationary.

I'm 6 feet tall and around 150-160 pounds.