Customer Reviews The North Face Recon

This is a great versatile backpack for hiking, work, and school. The daisy chain offer you an option to add a bungee cord system while you are use for hiking. You can add or remove the bungee cord system anytime in this backpack. I bought another North Face Borealis for my dad also, although both are same price, similar design, I like the Recon design more than the Borealis.

Great product.

I use it for school and it's great!

This was an impulse buy, and one that I don't regret at all! Feels very high quality and looks great. I highly recommend to other college students.

Purchased as my daughter's backpack for college. It's got plenty of room for her daily gear for on-campus and the side packets are big enough to hold her favorite water bottle. She loves it.

valid bag, lots of room for my cat.. i mean college stuff

Perfect bag pack in term of size and comfortably. Would love to have different color option .

Great for school l!!

I purchased this bag for my freshman year of college and it has been perfect. It holds my laptop and textbooks perfectly and is lightweight and breathable.

I really like the durability and quality of this pack. My daughter had one and loved it so I checked hers out first and agreed.

School and day trips

Excellent Product!!! Absolutely Love this Backpack

Stealthy backpack, great for traveling and as an office bag. Has a pocket for all of your needs, easily fits my bulky 15" laptop.

This is my first North Face brand Backpack that I owned. I have my own Under Armour for 4 years already and I decided to order The North Face Recon for both back to work and hiking, and this backpack looks great fit to my needs. I like front mesh pocket allowing you to clip small stuffs and the daisy chain also allowing you to clip things and adding a bungee cords to carry other stuffs. The size is not too big, and not too small. However, I wish The North Face offer 20 or 22 Liter backpack between 16-18 inches height in the near future.

Overall great backpack to take into the office. I'm able to carry my laptop and iPad very securely. The only thing I don't like is that it's too thin in width. I had the older model and it is a little wider.

I used to have the previus version of this bavkpack and this one has some of its best attributes, like the main bag, its very big, or the medium one that its has a lot oof pockets where you can store a lot of things

perfect for school.

I use this backpack for commuting to and from work.

Bought this for my grandson who just graduated from high school. He was very happy with it.

Perfect size for my college student, he loves it!

Looks good, durable, and lots of useful pockets. A little smaller than expected

Amazing! There are so many hidden pockets. It fits two water bottles in the size pockets (mine is 24 oz.). There are soft fleece pockets for sunglasses and valuables which come in handy. It holds a lot while still looking sleek.

There is a North Face vdeo that describes perfectly every single quality of this almost perfect backpack. The only con I would say is the weight of it when not loaded 2 lbs 7.7 oz (1125 g).

I bought this for a work/office backpack and I love it!! Just enough pockets for me, sturdy, lightweight (except for all my stuff in it), and tough!! Use this daily!!

I've had North Face Recon for almost 15 years now. I got the latest one shipped last year (to India) and is overall great also, except for a few specific cons for me, mainly: (1) the laptop compartment is too deep for e.g. a 13inch Macbook Air -- also when I dropped it in once, it actually "fell" to the bottom and it felt like there was no cushion/suspension at the bottom (I could hear a thud of sorts!). Maybe this is cos it's too large a compartment rather than a laptop sleeve -- but it can have deleterious consequences for the unsuspecting laptop! (2) the previous Recon I had (maybe 2014-15) had a separate iPad sleeve which was fantastically convenient. This one has no such thing and would be a Much desired addition here. Not sure why that was removed esp considering that a laptop + iPad is not uncommon today.The advertised iPad socket in the front is really more for a large phone, not iPad! (3) as the front flap fills, it distends into the middle large compartment which then becomes smaller effectively, which can be inconvenient at times. What saves the day is the external open flap where you can stash random leakover things.. the bag has good capacity nevertheless..