The Mother Tech Upland Ventilator is a super light pack for warm weather that will slay any vest on the market for comfort and load carrying ability.
Fitting and Using your MOTHERAll MOTHER packs are designed as technical packs with the weight of the pack and its contents being carried on your hips. The first time that you throw your pack on you will have to give it some thought.
We like to loosen the shoulder straps up considerably and position the hip harness so that it is cradling your protruding hip bones (our copy of the Anatomy Coloring Book calls them the iliac crest). Cinch the hip harness down. If you are new to technical packs, it should feel like it is wrapping around your hips with authority, like when you picked-up and jokingly threatened to throw your significant other into a 38 degree river (not that we’ve ever done that) and they hold on for dear life – or at least tight enough to drag you in with them. If the hip harness is connecting with a casual sloppiness, then it is too loose.