Osprey  Talon Pro 20 Pack - Men's

The Talon Pro 20 is a well designed, comfortable, lightweight backpack ready for a day hike in the woods or to serve as your daily bicycle commuter around town. Osprey's AirScape suspension is the highlight of the backpack allowing excellent ventilation and cooling with any activity. The Talon Pro 20 construction contains bluesign approved recycled materials and a PFC-free DWR coating. As with all of Osprey's products the Talon Pro is backed by its lifetime All Mighty Guarantee. Overall great backpack.

Love this backpack. Has all of the adjustability of larger backpacks without the bulk. Great day pack. Fit a couple water bottles (has a compartment on each the side), jacket, food, water filter, flashlights, and a hat. It has a compartment for sunglasses or valuables but it's not felt, so if you do store sunglasses in there make sure you bring it's own bag to store in there to avoid scratching the lenses. I'm 5'10, 220lbs and the L/XL size worked great for me. Just finished a longer hike in Yosemite and no lower back or shoulder issues.

The Talon Pro 20 is a well designed, comfortable, lightweight backpack ready for a day hike in the woods or to serve as your daily bicycle commuter around town. Osprey’s AirScape suspension is the highlight of the backpack allowing excellent ventilation and cooling with any activity. The Talon Pro 20 construction contains bluesign approved recycled materials and a PFC-free DWR coating. As with all of Osprey’s products the Talon Pro is backed by its lifetime All Mighty Guarantee.

I wanted to love the Talon Pro 20 but like the user before commented, the opening for the hydration sleeve is way too tight. I use a 3L reservoir and when it was full, I could not get it to fit without being worried it would pop. You could finagle it but I was worried it was too tight. For the reason I returned and purchased the Stratos 24 which was a perfect fit for my reservoir! I will say I have not tried it with an Osprey specific but use a Camelbak 3L reservoir.

I like this pack, and it's the only small day pack I could find that can be adjusted to fit my very long back. It's very comfortable and adjustable. The only drawback, and it's a pretty big one, is that the opening to the hydration sleeve is too small - it makes it very difficult to put a full hydration bladder in there - think trying to stuff a sausage through a keyhole. You can make it work but it's no fun.

Please bring back last year's version of this bag, everything about it was perfect, and the carbon color with the red accents was the best color osprey has ever made for their bags. The new one is not anything like the previous gen one- and it is unfortunately just about worse in every way.

I have the talon 18, it was in my trunk when my car was hit from behind by a semi truck at highway speed, bag got launched out the window on impact. Bag was unscathed. This bag has the durability of an 90s action film hero, while my vehicle had the durability of a 90s action film villain.

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] This is my first hiking pack that I have ever owned, and I am extremely pleased with the construction quality and all of the adjustability to make this packed amazingly comfortable on long hikes.

Nice little pack with many features, but as others have noted it’s almost impossible to fit in a reservoir. Weird.