“For him to carry 18 lbs in an unstructured bag would be painful - one reason why I got rid of his MS Seraph pack.”

The growing boy syndrome. I’ve only had 3 of those so far <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />.

It’s ironic you got rid of the MS Seraph pack. My family loves that pack. I prefer it over the Ghost (because my torso is smaller). I thought it to be extremely well structured up to 30lbs. But of course, the important question is, does it fit you? If it doesn’t, then something else must be done.

Of all my packs, the Ghost/Seraph-- I sweat the least on my back and it fits my body shape extremely well; and my family loves them (we have 3 MS packs).

If the Kelty you talk about is like this: http://www.mbstores.com/keha43infrpa.html then that looks like a lot more volume for his food <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

-Barry