hey guys guy eastman here from eastmans today we're going to review some great new products that
just came on the market from yeti the crossroads line inside the crossroads line there's three
categories of products the duffels the backpacks and my favorite the luggage and if you like the
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there so let's get after it let's tear into these products and show you what yeti has to offer for
the traveling outdoorsman now on each of these products each category there's different sizes
available the luggage right here is available in two different sizes 22 liter which this is
the small size carry-on 22 liter and a 29 liter which is course your check-in bag the backpacks
are available in three sizes basically a small medium and large this one's 22 and then they go up
from there up i think 29 and 35 liter and then the duffels are available in 40 and 60 liters so two
sizes the external material in these bags is all the same it's 700 d nylon which is very abrasive
resistant and water resistant so you don't have to worry about your luggage getting wet on the tarmac
unless it's really really a downpour or a flood also these are available with water resistant
zippers so you don't have to worry about water getting in the zippers very high quality zippers
the handles on here are very strong and robust reinforced with really heavy duty nylon
they're all doubled and tripled in thickness handles everywhere i mean nothing drives you
more crazy than having a bag and you're searching for a handle or a way to pick it up especially
if you're in a hurry so yeti solved that problem there's handles on virtually every side of these
bags there's one here one here one here one here and one on the top so there's literally
five handles and a strap on this uh this duffel same with the backpack you got a side handle on
each side and a top handle so you can pick that up and even one here on the bottom so
if you need to i don't know if your horse is bucking and you're heading down the trail you
need to pick it up real fast you can do that easy enough also the roller bag has handle here
here here and the top the roller bag also has a two level telescoping handle of course just like
anybody would want you see in the airports nowadays but it goes down hides nothing to grab
nothing to catch on one thing about the luggage also is the wheels are larger so they can handle
rougher trails rocky roads or curbs at the airport much easier than smaller wheels you can see here
they have allen bolts that hold them together so they're fully serviceable so i think if you break
a wheel or something were to happen you can pop one off and put a new one on the bottom of
all of these bags is a reinforced material this one's got a polycarbonate bottom
plastic really heavy duty tough plastic of course so the airlines are sliding them in and out of the
airplanes the backpack has more of a padded uh bottom on it that will allow you to breathe a
little bit and give it a little bit of of a softer feel on your back and of course the duffel has
kind of an in-between but a very tough rugged nylon bottom that's water resistant easy to
clean and very very durable another thing i noticed on the outside of these bags in
general when i first saw them is how light they actually are for all the amenities and all the
doodads available on these backpacks and bags they're very very light to start with that's one
thing it drives me nuts with my luggage prior to this is you you're starting off with 10 15
18 pounds before you even put anything in it not the case with this as durable as these are yeti
was able to build in durability and light weight so you're not going to spend a lot of your weight
limit on the airlines or the bush plane right off the bat with just your bag this is a very light
bag of course the backpack is but the luggage is surprisingly light and for as durable as it is
so now we've we've talked a little bit about the outside and my first initial impressions let's get
right into the inside where a lot of the really neat stuff is right here we have my favorite piece
in the line the crossroads luggage right here's your smaller of the two the 22-liter carry-on bag
here's the 29-liter check-in bag again one thing you'll notice is how light this bag actually is
right off the bat so you got more room to put more weight in there to still make it through the uh
the airline system with your 50 pounds or the bush plane at their 75 pounds or whatever their their
limit is now on the outside there's three main compartments here uh the first one is the top
unzips of course but what you'll notice here is yeti has of course thought of everything there's
an internal pocket here all the internal pockets are mesh lined so you can put your cords chargers
batteries various things in here but you can see where it is without undoing it and having to be
in the airport or on the bush plane pulling all your stuff out of the bag so we have an internal
mesh pocket here we have two pockets here one for magazines itineraries paperwork which seems like i
have a lot of when i travel and then one here this bigger pocket for a laptop or a tablet and it does
have a padding on there here it's uh you know pretty thin about an eighth inch but should be
plenty sufficient especially uh with this pocket on the outside as well uh to protect your laptop
so here's where all your laptop itinerary cords and what paperwork go on the outside then the next
pocket is a small top pocket again for maybe your wallet probably for your keys you can put your
keys on there so you don't have to dig in the dart form when you get back to your car you just pull
the cord out there it is keys always tend to find themselves to the bottom of any pocket but this
pocket's nice and shallow so you're not going to be digging clear the bottom of the bag completely
to find your most important items then the third exterior zipper opens the entire bag up clamshell
completely we again we have mesh pockets two more mesh pockets here so you can see what's in them
and a large cavity on the inside for the rest of your items another thing yeti included which
is very thoughtful on their part is compression straps and there are loop holes in here to put
internal or external compression straps if you're my wife get everything you can in there and strap
it cinch it down or cinch it down from the outside like i would to make sure it's a nice tight bundle
to throw onto the airplane or in the the overhead compartment so that's basically the inside of the
the bag we have a lot of uh a lot of compartments in here to really organize your gear so that
everything's not in one giant compartment settled to the bottom also yeti includes a nice luggage
strap right here that goes on no it's pretty no frills but it's definitely very useful
very durable again fitting the the theme of these bags very durable clothes so people can't see
your name unless they really need to open it up i see my wife's already got her name on this one so
i guess this might be her bag she's probably wondering where it is right now
the larger version is basically essentially the same just larger it's got a big external pocket
here again with a mesh side pockets so this one has put stuff in and one pocket to put
gear you may need to get to quick and easily without opening the entire compartment
again there are handles everywhere on this bag even two on the top which is nice constantly it's
uh it's always a struggle trying to figure out how to pick up a big bag this one has two two handles
here one on the top one on each side and even one on the bottom so no problem uh picking this bag up
in a hurry the other compartment is the main compartment of course and look at that that is
like not many bags i've seen before again we have mesh pockets on the lid here
and then two more mesh pockets here again more compression straps for inside or outside yeti
packing cubes these are kind of nice items i believe they're a separate item but they're
nice to uh again organized your equipment then your main compartment which opens up into one big
cavity here with again compression strap anchors inside so you can compression your internal
clothes or your gear and clothing down to lower the bulk of it and then this goes over the top
kind of uh creating a two separate cavities in this uh this bag which is very very useful
in making sure you have everything in its place easy to find so you can even explain to somebody
over the phone where to get something out of your bag at base camp if they need to so my favorite
items of the group the yeti crossroads luggage very lightweight extremely durable and ready
for the long haul on the road on the trail or on the plane wherever you might be going this fall
all right the next item in the crossroads line is the backpacks this is the small one the 22 liter
they also come in a 27 liter and a 35 liter which is a really big one so they're all almost
the same just larger so we're just going to look at the small one here as you can see again very
robust durable design very sleek but durable with a lot of options you got your compression
loops here lots of handles everywhere on this thing on every side except the bottom i think
and of course the straps we've got nice heavy duty foam straps and a foam back one thing this
backpack does have is quite a few pockets again on the outside we have one main pocket to keep
your stuff you need to get at quickly then we have a top pocket much like the other bags we
looked at a loop for the keys compression strap for uh the pack as well so you can compress
these packs down to tighten them up to fit in a smaller space again here's the main compartment
opens up another internal pocket small pocket for uh cords or whatnot here's the the main cavity of
the backpack again we got a mesh pocket up top and then a non-mesh pocket down here so you got
a few things that will handle being placed right here against your back and then a nice sizable
cavity one thing that's interesting is you do have these stops here to keep things from falling out
to the sides even if you open it on the airplane so everything doesn't completely collapse and fall
out onto the ground so that's very very nice addition to have then there's one other pocket
right here against the back of the pack that is just like the luggage is for your laptop a padded
sleeve right here for a laptop or a tablet again another small pocket here with another internal
pocket inside it for batteries your mouse your cords your whatnot so a very very useful a lot of
a lot of pockets a lot of utility stuffed into a really small backpack component here two more
sizes larger than this one and this backpack will fit your travel needs perfect for flying on the
airplane or the bush plane keeping your personal items close and handy right at your fingertips
the last item in the product line the crossroads line is of course the duffel everybody needs a
duffel or two in their life and this is uh yeti's offering it a duffel this is the smaller of the
two this is the 40 liter they also make a 60 liter so again same material on the outside to 700d
nylon very rip resistant abrasion resistant and water resistant like all the other items has lots
of handles on every side and the top compression loops on the outside so you can compress it down
and this one comes with a nice shoulder strap very durable material this is almost like
a rubberized nylon like my rubber raft will be made out of very very durable very strong
and reinforced with nylon strap there got the handle again padded handle so it's heavy it's not
hurting your hands too bad opens up we've got a pocket on the top and bottom of this this duffel
so here's a small pocket of thin shallow pocket probably to keep you know your personal items or
things you need to get to quickly your sunglasses your wallet what not right there so you got a left
and a right which is kind of nice to separate your equipment that way then the other pocket
is of course the main compartment main cavity of the duffel and that opens it up completely
again like the other items we have a mesh pocket in the lid so you can see what's in there and one
of the neatest things in in this product is the dividers yet he has two dividers in here
which are removable you can configure this into three different sections two sections or one big
section again compression straps on the inside to compress your items down key tether here so
if you get your keys or or important things don't end up at the bottom of the bag and if they do you
can just grab this pull them to the top we got two smaller mesh pockets with not no zippers on
here on the edge and then we have on the other side one larger one pocket that is uh does have
a zipper on it again mesh so very very durable lots of functionality in this bag in a small
in the smaller version the bigger version is almost the same just larger
but again very lightweight and durable one thing this bag does have that a lot of duffels don't is
this reinforced bottom so it slides on on surfaces fairly easy so you can slide it in and out of a
bush plane or helicopter or wherever you're headed but very strong nylon very durable and easy to
clean and water resistant so if your buddy or your wife or somebody set your bag in a puddle or a
puddle of jet fuel it's not going to get your underwear uh scorching hot with jet
fuel or anything soaked into it so right away now it's not submersible if you want to go full on
submersible you need to look at the eddie panga but this is uh is about as good as you're going
to get in a nylon duffel bag again the zippers are water resistant i wouldn't say they're waterproof
but definitely water resistant so the whole bag is water resistant top to bottom from the outside
durable shell so that's the yeti duffel we've looked at all three items in the product line the
crossroads line hope you got some good information out of this if you need additional information
check out yeti's website if not these will be available in retail or near you or on the
yeti website before you know it and feel free to pick one up get ready for fall i know i'm
about ready to start packing my stuff and heading out to the hills for the fall season