Granite GearZipp Sack

I love Granite Gear bags so much I don't take a suitcase to the cabin or my mom's in the mountains anymore -- or even to the beach for a week... In fact, now that I'm thinking about it, I only use a suitcase when I'm traveling by plane or train. If I'm traveling by car I just pack a couple of Granite Gear bags, grab my toiletries bag and I am ready to go.I've made my own "packing system:"For multi-week trips I use two sets of Granite gear Large and X-Large as packing cubes. A week's worth of socks underwear and so forth go in the Large. A week's worth of pants tops and a skirt go in the X-Large. There is room left in the suitcase beside the Large for a couple of pairs of shoes, sunscreen, etc. (Bathing suits and anything else go in the outside zipper compartments of the suitcase.) I pack another L/XL set with underwear and clothes in another suitcase for Week Two.In hotels, I use one of the Granite Gear bags as a dirty clothes bag hanging on the closet door knob. When it's time to move on, I just zip the bag up and the dirties can go in the suitcase.When Week Two begins, I get Week One's laundry done. (The Granite Gear bag can go in the washer too if needed.) The clothes come out of the dryer and go right back in the same L and X-Lg and suitcase as before.... There's my clothes for Week Three... all clean and pretty. I can stay on the road forever.The Granite Gear bags were originally made for camping - specifically for organizing stuff in a backpack or duffle bag. They still help there too.I have a Marmot Sawtooth X-Long X-Wide mummy sleeping bag. It is down-filled. I use an XL Granite Gear Bag as a stuff sack for it. It works better than a stuff sack with a drawstring. I put the sleeping bag in the Granite Gear bag, zip up the gear bag, then squish lots of air out. With a drawstring stuff sack you have to stuff and squish air both at the same time -- which takes some muscles and about 6-8 hands. A non-down sleeping bag may be a tight squeeze for a Granite Gear bag -- but the XL is as least as big as any sleeping bag stuff sack I have ever used.Two of my Granite Gear bags stay packed with camping gear all the time:A large Granite Gear bag holds a Coleman twin-sized velour air mattress, an Eveready LED table lantern and the lantern hanger (a wire hook w/chain that wraps around a tree).Another Granite Gear bag holds a manual air pump, clothes line and pins, the tent's ground cloth, a rubber mallet, a Sterno stove, Sterno fuel, bug spray, and a couple of flashlights....There is room to spare on both bags.Whenever I want to go camping I grab them, stuff my sleeping bag in another... get the tent and groceries and we are good to go. It's is nice to have all the flotsam and jetsam in one spot - going and coming and putting away.The bags lay flat and open from the top. It is easy to just toss in items as you pack. (Especially if you pack as I do: I wander around the house and pick up anything I think I may need...).Even when stuffed full, the bags still fit under car seats or in tiny spaces left in the trunk (unlike a suitcases or a big duffle bag).There are grab handles on either end - good for hanging the bag from a tree or strapping it down on a bike or clipping your water bottle or coffee mug to it. Every G.G. bag I have has a carabiner clipped on the handle for good measure. I clipped a shoulder strap (from a retired gym bag) to the G.G. bag with the air mattress. It's heavy and cumbersome. (You could rig up lightweight backpack straps with paracord if wanted.)The zippers are very high quality. The bags have thick double fabric zipper covers. The bags are not waterproof -- but they will keep your items dry short of dropping the bag in a lake. I've tested this through monsoons while traveling, in the tent during a downpour -- and packing or unpacking the car in howlers -- many, many times.If you travel and sometimes camp, have kids with 27 activities this week... or just want a gym bag that is easy on the wallet, I think you will find these bags a very, very good purchase.Happy travels, Cynthia

I love this bag good price comes in a small storage pouch durable and large enough to carry a complete change of clothes including light jacket and shoes and travel toiletries I usually add a plastic shopping bag and some cheap edc items and keep it in my car for those just in case events totally recommended wish they were still made

The Granite Gear Zipp Sacks are of a great design and quality. Over the years I have owned several of them and am still using all of them. What makes them a great design is that they open up horizontally. Most stuff sacks open from the top and are narrow and deep. So if anything is in the bottom of the sacks, everything must be taken out to find it. This does not happen with these bags. Everything is accessible.A word about the seller "Mountain Air". Their customer service is outstanding (Jonathan). One of the items was in a mislabeled outer pouch. Or to put it the other way, the wrong item was in the right packaging. This probably happened at the place of origin right after it was manufactured. So even though the mistake was not Mountain Air's fault, Jonathan handled it to my complete satisfaction. He listened, he was helpful, he was a 200% customer service professional. I hope I will be able to order from them again in the future.

I know the dimensions are stated, but this is enormous. Well made. Fine quality product. Red not as deep as in photo (if that matters).I wanted to use the bag to contain all my miscellaneous items, other than cook set, clothes and food, in a dump/bucket style backpack. This is a bit too large for my intention. Will serve well to pack boots, or a stack of folded shirts in luggage - perhaps even shoes/clothing for the gym.If you're smarter than I with visualizing the dimensions, this a tremendous stuff sack.

I bought a slightly larger one of these for a recent trip to store my supplements and silicone squeeze bottles of coconut oil (in other words, nonperishable food items). My toiletry kit was old and moldy, so I bought this sack to replace it. it doesn't have the pockets of the padding, but it's lighter, water tight and less expensive. I'll post back here, as needed.

Love these things... We have a bunch of them. They're 5 star worthy, BUT the webbing handle has pulled out of one of them. Not a deal breaker at all, but reflects they are not bomb-proof.

Durable, good zippers. The handles on either end make it easy to pull out of my pack. I use this to pack lunch for my bike commute. It's a bit more spacious than needed for one day of food but the extra space doesn't hurt in any way. I have the eight liter. Five would fit my typical lunch and snacks perfectly. This will double as my food bag for overnight backpacking trips so the extra room allows for double duty in this case.

Bought this for back country backpacking originally but they are really versatile for all kinds of travel. I used them for backpacking through China and when you buy a couple of them, they keep everything in your pack neat and organized. They are a bit bulkier than the Granite Gear Air Sacks but they are really durable. As a relative size comparison, the medium size (12L) will fit about 4 changes of clothes with a bit of room to spare.