Dakota Adventure Supply
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Ships the week of November 16, 2026.
The Everyday Carry Backpack moves easily between workdays, road trips, and days outside. Waxed canvas and leather details give it a familiar feel, with room for the things you need along the way.
Inside, bright blue lining helps you find what you packed. A padded laptop sleeve with a securing strap gives your computer a place of its own, while an internal zip pocket keeps smaller essentials together. With 22 liters of capacity, there’s room for your everyday essentials.
Pack for the plan. Leave room for the rest.
Available in Waxed Tan and Waxed Juniper Green.
We build gear that’s meant to last a lifetime. If the issue is due to a manufacturing defect, we’ll replace it. Contact DAS for help.
The outdoor gear we grew up with still shapes what we look for in a bag: canvas, leather details, and simple, practical designs. We wanted to bring that heritage style to a well-made backpack we'd use every day.
Designer Lucas Greer began in the Outdoor Recreation Archive at Utah State University, studying hiking packs in catalogs from the 1960s, '70s, and '80s. The shapes, materials, and ways those packs opened offered a starting point. Our own Adventure Tote helped keep the design connected to the rest of the DAS line.
The brief stayed simple: heritage-inspired looks, a place for a laptop, quick access to small essentials, and room for a water bottle. Enough organization to be useful, with space left for your own way of packing.
“I browsed various catalogs from the ’70s, ’80s, and ’60s, looking specifically at vintage hiking backpacks—what features they had, what design lines they had, what materials, how they functioned.”
Lucas Greer
Backpack designer
“A versatile high-quality backpack that balances professional aesthetics with functional durability.”
Lucas sewed three prototypes himself, moving between digital patterns, a laser cutter, and an industrial sewing machine. Putting the ideas into real fabric revealed what a drawing couldn't.
The flap was refined to make the bag simpler to get into. A large front pocket was removed when testing showed it wasn't earning its place. The bottle pockets moved lower to help the bag sit more steadily with bottles inside.
“Jeff and Paxton tested it. I tested it. After a lot of testing, we came to the conclusion that the quick-access pocket was pretty big, too far down the bag, and not of much use. So we decided to nix that.”
“In the beginning, I was trying to come up with as many different ideas as possible, trying to mimic the webbing architecture that was on the Adventure Tote—seeing how that could transfer to a backpack.”
Original drawings supplied by Lucas Greer. These are development concepts: pockets, construction, colors, and branding changed before production. Select a drawing to see it larger.
Bright blue lining makes it easier to see inside. An internal zip pocket keeps small essentials together, so a charging cable or headphones have a place to land.
The main compartment stays open for the rest of your day: a layer, lunch, or whatever the next stop calls for.
“The design philosophy is not that there’s a pocket for every little thing you have. If you want to add more organization, we have pouches you can use to organize your toiletries or your cables.”
A padded laptop sleeve with a hook-and-loop securing strap gives your computer a place of its own. Intentionally raised off the bottom of the bag, the sleeve adds cushioning and helps protect your laptop when you set the bag down. It keeps your workday carry organized without dividing up the whole bag.
The sleeve measures 12 inches wide by 16 inches high. Compare your device's actual dimensions before choosing your fit.
“We decided to focus on making the laptop sleeve higher quality, have more padding, and make it so it’s raised off the bottom.”
Waxed canvas, leather details, and the Dakota mark carry the heritage inspiration into the finished backpack. Choose Waxed Tan or Waxed Juniper Green.
A metal G-hook secures the flap. External compression lets you adjust the bag around the load you're carrying, while the blue-lined flap pocket and built-in key leash keep small essentials within reach.
“We landed on this really beautiful design, which had that reinforced bottom, like those old vintage packs that we saw in the archive.”
Heavily padded shoulder straps have neoprene backing at the neck. An adjustable sternum strap helps you dial in the fit.
These were part of the design process from the beginning: how the straps sit, how they feel against the body, and how the bag carries through an ordinary day.
“When we designed the shoulder straps, we had it so the neoprene on the bottom rolled over to the top. That way it’s comfortable against the neck where it touches the body.”
The metal G-hook makes the flap easy to open and close with one hand. Hook it into the webbing loops to secure your load.
Packing more? Use a higher loop to give the flap more room. The expandable closure adjusts to handle larger loads.
“One of the main complaints people have with those vintage bags, which have the drawcord and then the [top lid] over them, is that it takes so many steps to get inside. How can we simplify it so the user can easily and quickly get inside the bag?”
Twenty-two liters for the workday, a road trip, or a little time outside. Bring the things you need, and leave room for a change of plans.
A laptop and cables for the weekday. An extra layer when you're heading out after work. The same bag, packed your way.
Choose your color“It was a lot of fun. It was quite the journey, but I think this product is a great representation of the brand and of where it can go in the future.”
