Hello and greetings from Darkest Scandinavia!

  I've just bought a Lowe Alpine Appalachian Torso APS 5 65 + 15 litre rucksack from Ebay on a whim! Cost was 49 Pounds. Was this a good price? Is this a good rucksack? What are its pros & cons?

 Also I hunt in vain for an article I saw on OutdoorsMagic a few days ago about a man falling to his death on Striding Edge, any idea how I can find this again (I want to go to the newspaper link in the article)?

 New to OM I am, takes a while to work out what is where!

 Emerald Fox

man dies

hows that?

cant help with the sack.

If I'm not mistaken, the sack you've bought is now discontinued by Lowe Alpine but retailed for roughly £95-£100 a couple of years ago. If I'm not mistaken (twice) then this is the side-pocketed version of the the Frontier which has/had bellows side pockets and compression straps and retailed for about £10 more.

All-in-all - a decent if not spectacular price for a good sack from a very good manufacturer of sacks.

I used to have an Appalachian, bought in about 1998 for £120. It was of good quality, a basic but functional design. I couldn't get comfortable carrying it though, so sold it to a friend.

A (male) friend used a female-specific version for a week long backpacking trip in August and found it very comfortable. If it fits you then it's a good buy

Pushed him deliberately! No, you're thinking of Wales aren't you? There was a case there where that happened in the nineteen-eighties I seem to recall, when some teenagers were mucking about together either in the mountains or near the coast; and one with a big backpack went over an edge following a push or shove and was then partly paralysed, but not killed I think.

Sounds too like you got yourself a very good backpack there for a very fair price indeed! So most definitely not a lemon, unless it is yellow, and making you cry because you are bitter about the whole purchase that is! Otherwise no worries there mate!