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Fidel
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Meilen, Switzerland
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Sep 12, 2017 - 12:28pm PT
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Yesterday, hit your message. I don't know if you're still interested in the name of the old backpacking. If I'm right, in 1987 Lowe had two big backpackings: 1st Patagonia (80-100 lt.), 2nd Cerro Torre 2 (68-88 lt.). In that year, I bought the Cerro Torre 2, which showed the same colors as yours. Unfortunately, my backpacking broke yesterday. That's why I was looking for on the Internet, when I hit your message.
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okay, whatever
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Sep 12, 2017 - 01:36pm PT
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Kitty Bradley might be able to shed some light on these generations of Lowe packs. She and I were married in 1983, and I wrote the descriptions of the packs that appeared in several late 1980's-early 1990's Lowe catalogs, back in my Boulder days, but I don't remember this one in particular. Kitty was Lowe's marketing person in the late 1980's, having previously managed Culp's Boulder Mountaineer in the late 1970's. Then the Irish invasion at Lowe booted her to the curb, which she turned into something much better at Nike in Oregon, and then Stonewear, anyway. A long time ago... but Kitty is on Facebook, and very well known in the outdoor industry, and is a super dog agility trainer and judge at this point in her life. And also just a wonderful person, though we divorced in 1998. That was my fault, not hers. I climbed and skied with both George and Jeff, along with Kitty and Sue Giller, among many others, back in the 1970's/1980's, in Colorado and elsewhere. Jeff and I did a casual, beautiful weather ascent of the south face of the Aiguille du Midi in 1985, when all the usual suspects were spending time in the Alps before and after the big trade show in Munich. But I digress... this is about packs, not nostalgia! Ask her!
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pigru123
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Bern
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This is clearly the Alpine Lowe Cerro Torre 2
I bought one in 1986 an my wife had the Cerro Torre 1 just a little bit smaller made for shorter backs.
I am sittlichen using it today, it made 3 times longs journeys in Tibet for several months.
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