Hello,

I posed this question to a different forum thread and thought I may post it here as well.

I just got done hiking Shining rock wilderness and I have an Osprey 3L bladder with my Atmos 65 pack. My side pockets are pretty useless, cannot reach them, and when the pack is packed nothing fits in them.

I feel that when I do the AT from Springer to Fontana Dam in a few weeks that I can save a lot of weight and space by ditching the bladder, and my Sawyer filter, and using bottles attached to the shoulder straps, and switching to Aqua Mira.

I have also based this by looking at the AT guide and seeing that there are many water resupply points.

Question: How did you get you bottles to fit securely to you shoulder straps?

Any help regarding this would be most helpful, and very much appreciated.

Best regards,
Floyd.