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Unless you're carrying a waterbottle, or stuffing something bigger and bulkier like a waterproof jacket down them, then smaller stuff is prone to falling out of the pockets due to them only being sewn up on two of the four sides

Sometime during the mid seventies I found out that Kelty had been sold to another company, and worried that they would discontinue the line of packs, I purchased an early Kelty Model B with the optional two external pockets, mounted on a Mountaineer frame, from the original owner

I found some in the bargain cave at Cabelas a few years ago

The downside of course is that the offset is only to one side, so if the hook tries to flip over in the other direction, then it has further to turn before it can take a hold

Finding the right balance is always tricky and I came to believe that the processes we implemented to become more efficient now seemed to slow us down