Hyperlite Mountain Gear Launches Ski Mountaineering Pack With Cody Townsend

GEARJUNKIE - When you go as hard in the paint as Cody Townsend, you know what you like in your gear. So, when the pro skier and Hyperlite Mountain Gear (HMG) collaborated on a new ski mountaineering pack, Townsend came prepared with a list of notes and a sketched design.

From those humble origins arose the Crux 40, a new 40L skimo pack that welds HMG’s commitment to minimalism and Dyneema Composite Fabric (DCF) with a wish list Townsend’s been collating for the better part of a decade.

“I kind of started piecing together ideas from others while soaking up knowledge and experience on my own within ski mountaineering over the past seven years,” Townsend shared with GearJunkie in an interview.