Quote Originally Posted by Tobus View Post
My backpacking kilt is a brown Utilikilt Workman:



I probably wear it higher up above my hips that most people tend to wear a Utilikilt. But it actually works very well with the hip belt on my frame pack. If I wear my kilt (or trousers, for that matter) down on my "jeans waist", the hip belt on my pack is above it. And that seems to be annoying to me. So I prefer the front buckle of my pack's hip belt to be laying on top of my kilt. You can see above that the lower buckle of my kilt belt (it's a double-buckle belt) is just below my hip belt buckle, and the top kilt belt buckle is behind it.

My usual load-out is around 40 pounds.

I find the plethora of pockets on the Workman to be indispensable for long hiking. It saves me from having to constantly grope in my pack's outer pockets for stuff (which is always awkward).
Old Skool....you and me bro. I still prefer an exterior frame pack over an internal frame. Now, if I were to go snow camping on XC ski's, that'd be different.

Those are some serious gaiters, BTW.

BTW, I usually take a small cordura fanny pack and sling it 'round the front for "stuff" when I'm hiking, since my kilt has no pockets.