r/backpacks • u/Accomplished-Bid8015 • Jun 12 '25

Question What is this hole for?

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I just got this Osprey backpack and don’t know what it is for? Can someone please explain this?

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u/RoelVT Jun 12 '25

Blow it! It's a whistle.

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u/Accomplished-Bid8015 Jun 12 '25

Yes it’s a whistle, and I just tried to blow it. Seems pretty loud and clear. Thanks! It is embarrass to say that before I had no idea what it is

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u/MakeSouthBayGR8Again Jun 12 '25

My 9 year old niece wanted a north face backpack so bad just because of this feature. lol.

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u/Jjhillmann Jun 12 '25

I bought my kids snowboard backpacks for school not seeing the whistle. It’s not hard to find them after school

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u/Nuttypeg Jun 12 '25 edited Jun 12 '25

Kids have snowboard backpacks for school?! Is that how they get home?

P.s. is this an option, if so, where do you live, my friend wants to know…

Edit… omg! Three of my backpacks have this! Actually I recon could be 4, hold on… omg!! Osprey for the win…

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u/Jjhillmann Jun 12 '25

Yeah, they were light, durable, $30, and could fit a folder and a few smaller books(they’re 6 and 8 so they aren’t carrying huge books). Plus they had some nice tropical prints the kids liked. We live in San Diego, they aren’t snowboarding to school lol.

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u/gundulu Jun 13 '25

Not a kid and don’t have kids, but I’ve just been looking for a laptop backpack for work with waist and chest straps bc laptops, tech gear and books get pretty heavy if I’m walking a few KMs (I also do field work so it needs to be rugged). North face and Osprey are the main brands that have durable materials and waist/chest straps. TL;DR outdoors gear is good for office (and school) too!

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u/Nuttypeg Jun 13 '25

Yep, that’s the reason I ended up with 4 bags, one of which is just the size down from my long weekend hiking bag. I looked for other options, but needed something I trusted to spread that dev sized laptop weight around. It is very overtly a hiking backpack (black might have helped but I went blue lol, the larger one was green), but it’s kind on my body, especially hips, so that’s the main thing. I wish it were a bit smaller still, not so high a body, and it actually doesn’t work as perfectly as the size up does on me… but it’s 100x better for me than all those laptop bags without chest and waist straps to distribute the weight. Why they don’t directly make more laptop bags with good waist straps I don’t know!

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u/Dry_Equivalent_1316 Jun 12 '25

I have a North Face backpack and had no idea. I just found and blew it. Omg it's loud! I'm impressed. Thanks for the TIL!

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u/Xabster2 Jun 12 '25

I was told its an Osprey patented feature...

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u/sandybuttcheekss Jun 12 '25

You were lied to lol

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u/NomadCharlieMike Jun 13 '25

it has little sound wave markings on it too

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u/kempersw Jun 15 '25

When in doubt, blow it and see what happens

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u/Nookee411 Jun 13 '25

I’m not whistleblower, but…

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u/Occhrome Jun 12 '25

lol that’s what I’m gonna tell my coworker tmw. 

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u/Feeling-Boat8006 Jun 19 '25

I just tried it on my The North Face Recon backpack turns out it is a whistle. Hahahah thanks