The Osprey Ozone Duplex 65 travel bag will get you to your final destination whether you’re hopping a flight to Maine for a long weekend or toting your ski boots to Japan.
Carry-on luggage is the bane of the traveler’s existence. Planes have seemingly a hundred different-size overhead compartments, and it’s never clear to me if my bag will fit on the plane I’m boarding. Yes, I frequently haul too much gear in my carry-on — items like bike shoes and a helmet that I can’t do without if I arrive and my checked bag doesn’t.
So, I regularly found myself doing the walk of shame after trying to cram my bag overhead. I’d sadly embrace defeat, walk said bag up to the front of the plane, sheepishly ask for a green tag, and hand it off to the baggage handlers. That is, until I got Osprey’s Ozone Duplex 65 ($220).
Ozone Duplex 65 Review
The bag solves the problem of oddly shaped or overstuffed carry-on luggage by splitting into two parts. The back is a traditional daypack, with comfortable, contoured shoulder straps, load-supporting hip belt, and smartly designed pockets.
It clips to an oversized wire-frame packing cube large enough to hold a pair of alpine boots, all the clothing and related sundries for a long weekend of business/pleasure, or a bouldering, biking, fishing, or other foray where arriving without key pieces of gear would be a dealbreaker.
When the overhead space is restricted, you just unclip the two and store one under your seat and one overhead. That way, you have everything you need with you. And it’s available in a men’s 65-liter and women’s 60-liter that aims to accommodate shorter torsos.