Description
Description
The Aircontact Core 70+10 is Deuter's long-distance trekking pack: 70 litres with a 10 litre extendable lid, built around load control for heavy carries over multiple days.
Who it's for
Long trips and cold ones. 80 litres extended takes a full winter kit, or your gear plus the tent, the stove and the food for two.
Capacity, and what actually fits
The +10 is real litres, not a model number. The lid extends. A 70 carries 70 litres packed normally and 80 with the lid raised - which is the difference between a long weekend and a week, or between carrying your own food and carrying someone else's as well.
Long trips, cold trips, and the trips where you carry more than your share. 80 litres extended is genuinely a lot of pack.
How it carries
Aircontact is the reason these packs have the following they do. The back panel uses open-cell foam that compresses and springs back as you walk, pumping air through the channels instead of sealing your shirt to your spine. On a Queensland summer walk that is the difference between damp and soaked.
The Core is built to move weight onto your hips and keep it there. Load it properly and it carries far heavier than the number on the label suggests.
Fitting it
Back length decides the size, not your height. Measure from the bony bump at the base of your neck to the top of your hip bones, and always load the pack before you judge it - an empty pack tells you nothing about how it will carry.
Aim to get about 80% of the weight onto your hips. The shoulder straps are there to stop it tipping backwards, not to hold the load. Get that right and a 20 kg pack stops being an ordeal.
If a standard pack has always dug into your collarbones, look at the SL versions - Deuter's women's fit, with narrower straps set closer together and a shorter back.
Access and organisation
A front zip opens the main compartment so you can reach the thing at the bottom without unpacking everything above it, and there is a separate bottom compartment with a divider you can unclip when you want one long space instead of two.
500D textured nylon over a 235D recycled nylon body - tough where it drags on rock and lighter where it does not.
Weight
2460 g empty, measuring 90 / 37 / 30 cm (L x W x D). For a pack that carries 80 litres loaded, that is a fair trade - the frame and the back system are where the weight goes, and they are what let you carry a heavy load comfortably.
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