Kelty {Spoil Your Family Review + Giveaway #40}
Welcome to the Spoil Your Family Summer Giveaway Event being hosted by Annette from Annette Funnyjello and myself. Today’s sponsors are targeted to our dad readers and their wives entering for them. Both companies we are featuring today are great for those camping trips. Our first sponsor is Kelty. Be sure to visit Annette’s blog for a second chance to win the same prize being offered here.
If you are unfamiliar with Kelty, they sell several travel and camping products such as tents, sleeping bags and backpacks, which is what I will be writing about today.
My fiancé was in dire need of a backpack. He had been using the same one since high school and it was finally busting at the seems from all the use. Kelty sent us the Redstart 1600 backpack in the color Woods Green to review.
For those multi-layered days the sleek Redstart features a handy front mesh pocket, perfect for storing the rain shell, maps, and snacks.
Packbag Features:
• Hydration compatible
• Front-panel access
• Shove-it pocket fits a bicycle helmet
• Reservoir sleeve
• Mesh water bottle pockets
• Side compression straps
• Daisy chain
• Ice-axe loop
• Lash tabs
• Key fob
• Carry handleSuspension Features:
• HDPE frame sheet
• Ventilating backpanel and shoulder straps
• Webbing waist belt
• Wicking backpanel
• Padded backpanel and shoulder straps
• Sternum strap
This backpack is perfect for all of the biking journeys Ben has every day. This item gets plenty of use. It holds a lot more than it looks like it would as well. This was the only bag Ben brought with him to New York when he was gone for nearly a week so you can imagine how many items were stored in the backpack. It is still in great condition and it seems like a very tough backpack. I would definitely recommend it for biking, hiking, camping, travel and even school use.
Giveaway: One winner will receive a Redstart 1600 backpack of their own (ARV $55.95).
Required Entry: Tell me another item you love from the Kelty website.
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* Blog about this giveaway = 5 Entries (Please leave 5 comments). Link back to this post and Kelty. (Make sure you leave me a link to your blog entry. Blog post must be at least 100 words and NOT be copied and pasted from my blog.)
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This giveaway will end on Friday August 20, 2010 at 11:59 PM CST and is open to residents of the USA. I will choose the winner via random.org and announce and e-mail the winner some time on August 21, 2010.
Disclosure: Kelty did provided me with product(s) to review for this post. They are also providing the prize to the winner of this giveaway. All opinions expressed about the company are 100% mine.
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