Customer Reviews The North Face Recon

Product is amazing

Excellent bag. High quality, color was exactly as pictured and beautiful out of the box. BUT... had to return it. Not big enough for our middle schooler. The fad seems to be to never touch your locker, so it has to hold everything. If I re-engineered it, I would make it 34L, dividing the added space between the main pocket and an additional pocket for laptop chargers and accessories.

Sturdy and good design. Perfect for traveling and school.

I like everything about it except the mesh netting on front wish it was little different material.

I use this backpack for work. I like the shove-it pocket and the new shoulder strap design but miss the pockets on my Surge this pack replaced due to my surge needing repair. I went with this pack over the new surge due to the new front pockets on the surge being not very useful. The new NF packs are a step back in design. Hard ring around the bottom, pack does not open enough to get in, pockets intrude on interior, and the top of the pack area is wasted. The designers could do much better.

Bought this pack for a trip to Switzerland. Great carry-on size for the airlines, fits a lot of gear, comfortable, and has great pockets. Unfortunately some of the stitching on the rear of the pack on the laptop sleeve was missed, but I should be able to put a few stitches in it to keep the seam sealed up. Overall a great pack, good size for what I needed, and fits well under the seat and in the storage bins of small aircraft.

I love my backpack's design and durability.

I'm a stagehand and needed a new bag with several compartments. This bag is exactly what I needed and good quality. My only critique is that I wish the zippers opened the bag a bit wider.

Bought the Recon to replace a 10 year old pack that was pilfered and didn't realize what improvements had been made in that time. My only beer is that I had to buy the "men's pack to get the Navy blue color I wanted. Since this is a unisex product, I don't even know why there is a men's or women's version. All specs for the pack are the same. Just feature all colors and let people choose. Haven't filled it and hefted it to capapcity yet.

I bought this as a school backpack for my 2nd grader. It is not very wide, so it didn't work for even a second grader's school materials. It was not wide enough to fit his binder/trapper keeper (do they still call them that??)

smaller than the older version for sure. but love the new material and it is very comfortable

I use this bag everyday, and it is a nice pack. The quality seems good, but it's not as spacious as advertised in my opinion. I have a camelbak rimrunner 22L that fits more than this 30L pack. I think it is mainly due to the fact that the front pockets take up space in the main compartment, it keeps it streamline but doesn't allow you to use every cubic inch. Otherwise seems to be a good pack.

little smaller than anticipated but still good for hikes

The only complaint I have is that the pouch on the front has asymmetrical stitching. It's off by like a quarter of an inch. My OCD is coming out.

I use this for school and I like the computer pouch in the back. I wish it was slightly bigger but it's a good size.

I use this as a school backpack. It is great and looks really good. I could use a little more space and room but overall it's a great backpack!

I use this backpack for college. I carry my laptop,tablet,pens and other various things with me everyday. I enjoy the reinforced water bottle holders and love that there are two on both sides. The colors are great and there are many to chose from. I love the zipper pulls that are on the bag as well. The only downside is that the pocket with all the little pockets is only a half pocket. When you add a decent amount of things to that pocket it begins to impede on the pocket behind it and I wish it was a full pocket on its own to solve this issue. It also impedes the ease of the zipper for this particular pocket.

We bought the smaller size and though it wasn't big enough. But this one was what we were looking for.

I use the bag because I carry a lot of stuff of my person and the recon backpack makes it much easier and comfortable to do that

It's kinda small for all my books to fit, but it's a great bad for school.

Overall decent quality. The color "Arrowhead Yellow" looks less like an arrowhead and more like something Dwight Schrute wear to work.

Compact and looks sturdy. My husband using it for his weekly business travels.

Good quality to price ratio.

I will use it for a work back pack but also as a travel bag. I love the sleek design- It doesn't look huge yet has plenty of space and pockets. It seems to be very well made. I gave it a 4 star because I would prefer more bottom padding in the laptop section. I'm not crazy about the many straps that I won't be using- wish they were detatchable.

I love this book bag, I decided to get another one for my wife.