Customer Reviews Marmot Kompressor Comet

Fantastic small pack. The “photo” of this on a silhouette makes it look enormous. It’s not. I used it every day for a week at Disney and it was perfect. Cool on my back, holds everything I need for the day (spare shirts, sunscreen, a couple diapers, snacks) and water bottle pocket on the side. Roomy but discrete cell phone pouch near the upper handle. Also fits below a stroller or over the handles.

Awesome pack. Super lightweight. It's little as advertised - and unstructured. It's great for a hike to throw in a water bottle, jacket, and sun block. And when you're done it'll collapse into on of its pockets. Great design!

I use this pack for walking, errands, and days on foot about town. It's good for what it is - a very light pack for gloves, water, sunglasses, windbreaker, wallet, etc. Can handle a few groceries. Only suggestion for improvement is a plastic stiffener in the wide part of the shoulder straps. They bunch up and twist. Still a useful minimalist pack for light loads, and take a real day pack if you need to carry more or need tougher fabric.

Well built and just about the right size for a lightweight day pack, but the Achilles' heel of the Kompressor Comet pack is the poor design of the shoulder straps. Since the shoulder straps have no padding or structure to them, they tend to bunch up when wearing the pack, turning the shoulder strap into a shoulder rope. This cuts into the shoulders of the wearer and causes fatigue and irritation with anything but the lightest loads. I wore this pack for 8 hours while climbing and descending the Grosser Donnerkogel in Austria and I wouldn't recommend the pack for that kind of activity. The lack of a chest clip to hold the shoulder straps in the proper place on the shoulders is also a flaw that I mitigated by tying loops in the tails of the shoulder straps below the buckles and using a carabiner to hold the straps in place. My older Kompressor pack that had a simple foam sheet "frame," proper, padded shoulder straps, and a chest retainer strap was far superior to this in design.