Hello all...

I have posted a few questions on this board for my first upcoming grip and have received some excellent feedback. I thought I'd try my hand in another beginner question here...

As an avid day hiker, I have happily used hydration packs to my advantage for years. In fact several that I use for hiking and biking have their very own zip-in compartment for the reservoir.

From the perspective of using a hydration pack with a larger backcountry pack (using an Aether 70) I would imagine packing and altering a hydration pack in the provided 'in bag' divider could prove somewhat cumbersome. I came across a suggestion of just laying it atop or even in-between the "cap" portion of the pack.

Anyone have any thoughts, approaches or recommendations to this question? I suppose I can tinker with it to see what's works best for me, but thought I'd reach out on the board...

Thanks!
~grc