Cotopaxi Cusco 26lt Review

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After seeing the pack on BlackOwlOutdoor's Channel, I fell in love and had to purchase one, this pack is a perfect day pack I'm going to be using this for a long time!

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hello people so today I'm taking a look at the cotopaxi Cusco 26 liter now first up cotopaxi are a company over in the USA and I first saw this pack on Black Isle outdoors is a YouTube channel and he was doing a review and you're trying to get a bit of support for cotopaxi and I immediately fell in love with this rucksack and I had to have one so a couple of days later I went to purchase one contacted the gods of cotopaxi and I said like I really want to help out or no show review I think it's a great idea I'll get further into that in a minute and I just said I want to help out wanna do review and they said basically it's a long way to get it from the u.s. to here everyone knows that postage is terrible so they did me a favor and basically they pay for postage always still pay for the pack because I wanted to UM but they pay for postage so I'd say a massive thank you to come to pack see first of all and but basically what post box y'all they're a company that do outdoor gear they're quite a new company and haven't got a lot of gear yet but they have got use quality and basically every purchase you make can ever every autumn you boy I'm a percentage of what you pay them and goes to third world countries and helps them over there you know and basically sending money over there helping an app and I just thought it was a good idea I think it was a it's a good day it's a good organisation it's a good company and I wanted to support that and so I said to them you know so I'll put I'll purchase a pack and I'll do review for you so I've been using it for a while and of course for a couple months now I've been using it all the way through the Sunnah and I literally love it so much ask anyone ask anyone that knows me I don't stop going on a bit home which I look this back and basically I keep saying basically a lot books basically and I've got a lot of pugs specifically a lot of dye packs and not to the point where I didn't need them all add one for the woods I had one for going to work at once for going for walks there's one for this one for that and he was just like every time I went somewhere new different to have to change all the stuff out the pack to put into another pack because I just didn't like using one for everything and I came to the point where I wanted one one pack that did everything and that was that it's it looks it looks great it's it fits in with an urban environment you know and we're own town and as well it fits in with the wards when I'm coming out just for the day I'm just going for a little walk and it comes in three different colors I think it comes in orange it comes in cream it comes in green it possibly comes in white something cooking in welcoming for colors it's made of this it's a strange material it's a cotton nylon mix and it is actually it feels really nice it's it feels like a little bit like canvas but obviously it's got this kind of em nylon blend it in with it so it's waterproof as well and it's just great and basically I'm gonna go over the features and it's got two side pockets and I'll use these for keeping my tripod in now I put my hammock chair in that one as well and on the other side I put my water bottle and as for this it's got three compartments and this is what I really liked about this back this is what made me fall in love with it on this one pack I've still got my things in here I'm a foot pack you've got a big big pocket in the front and then you've got a zip pocket and which I keep some oils and stuff in and then a smaller pocket which is where I keep my king it took too long sections therefore it's also got a little bit of a little bit of fabric on the front which is like a NASA can kind of see which is back to its roots and just help you to remember purchasing to help you know and then just a lot they fire up this little no and basically see the small pocket and it's just in a you see what I love about this pack this pocket basically it's just an area where you can keep all your essential items so in there you know my wallet my phone camera anything is central you need to grab it just saves you have to go into the main section of this pack you can just go walk get the essentials and set off the woman's around in the bottom I'm trying to get the big section then officer you've got your main compartment extra layers wool blanket back on things where everyone going at the top you've got under the small pocket in there in the back it's got like a laptop sleeve obviously haven't got a laptop but I tend to get lot magazines doesn't sometimes I go out and take a magazine or a comic with me I'll pop it in there this is a nice flat area and that's a quilted padded section again as for zips they have got official YKK zips very good quality this big metal zips very nice and then with a little there no leather toggle on there ask for the straps I'll talk about those in a second I'll put it on my back but they're really good quality trucks and in the back the back panel obviously the back panel is quilted as well on the bottom section I forgot to mention and he's suede so you know you can put it David on kind of moist to damp ground and it's not gonna get the the bottom of the bag soaking wet and kind of suede on the bottom there so you know it's gonna be durable you can put it down I'm gonna wear away anytime soon I'm gonna put the pack on them and I'm gonna show you it to show you on okay so it's on the back now as you can see it's quite a small pack it's actually quite narrow so when you walk in through the brush and we didn't tend to get hung up on things and that's for the straps you got two pretty strong and no long straps to cinch in cinch it down we have some nice overhang fold just grab onto and then one thing that I really like about this pack are the actual rubber straps they're kind of moist and worried so really comfortable and nice good and thick as well so it sits on your shoulders really nice and they're designed like swim packs nowadays not the new design of packs that they curve into your chest more which is really comfortable for carry and then when you put the chest strap on as you can see just Benzi really nice straight over your chest muscles food to six and carries really nice on your back that's for the chest strap it's on it's on an adjustable system so depending on how tall you are you can adjust it so it's in the right place just right across your chest and it also comes with a small sort of way strap you're never gonna really need the waist strap because you're never going to be carry enough weight in this looks like and to kind of need it but if you just get a little bit heavier you need that extra support that is there so it's just noise extra feature just in case other than that I absolutely love this rucksack ask anybody I know I'll tell you how much I really really enjoy this pack so yeah and cotopaxi have actually gave me a discount code so if any of you do fancy going over there and checking the note and even if you don't want to buy anything go over there and check them out and give them some support please good cause and but if you do you want to go over there and you do like something they have given me a discount code which I put on the screen now so just use that at the end I think that's 15% off so that I'll get you I love it I'll cut you a delivery charge in half pretty much though it's not actually that bad form to get something out with UK and yeah cotopaxi or a company to keep an eye on they're bringing out some pretty good products and I definitely want to call them all things from them in the future it's just those damn delivery costs and I think they are got some plans to come over to the UK eventually but you know it's all a work in progress so yeah and I hope you enjoyed the review I hope you answered some questions and if you are looking to actually already purchase this back if not go over and check them out so thanks for watching and I'll see you again very very soon