Salkan

06/12/2026

Team underprepared, desperately searching for a head torch.
Some silly point-and-shoots frames from a trip last year.
SALKAN team behind the scenes.
Huge Grant Charlie

06/02/2026

05/29/2026

One of my favourite parts of designing bags is seeing how people end up using them.

You spend years obsessing over pockets, straps and features for one specific purpose, then someone sends you a photo using the bag in a way you’d never have thought of.

A skateboard strapped to the side in Southeast Asia. Climbing shoes hanging off the daisychains. A bikepacking setup strapped to a rear pannier, and even a laundry bag as a bear bag whilst wild camping.

These are just a few examples that have caught me off guard recently.

04/29/2026

Sometimes the biggest product design decisions are the hardest to spot.

A simple choice of webbing can make a huge difference to the comfort, longevity, and feel of a pack over time. It’s the sort of detail that can take weeks of research and testing even though, in the end, only a handful of people might ever consciously notice it.

I think I might be making this one slightly selfishly, because these small decisions take up a lot more headspace than they probably should. But they’re also the decisions that help make a pack feel right after years of use, not just on day one.

As always, any questions or thoughts, drop them below.

Thanks for watching,
Will

04/21/2026

Some old analog frames from the archive.

From a road trip Charlie and James took last summer — a very red ‘93 Lada Niva, a roof tent, and two weeks traversing the Pyrenees.

I asked Charlie this morning how the Lada was.
He simply replied: “Slow and sketchy”. Might have to get him to write about it for the Journal.

Image credits

03/30/2026

This is Dan. 6’4”, Longhaul on his back. Caught somewhere between sightseeing stops in Barcelona last summer.

03/18/2026

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