I would be far more interested in the hip strap. I would desperately prefer not to have to carry the load (70 lbs) on my shoulders for a 3 to 6 mile hike on rugged terrain! A decent hip belt would be far better. I did not see any of the packs on the show with a hip strap. Ugh.

I thought the end of the show was fairly anti-climactic. Basically they break out of the wilderness into a summer camp next to a railroad and that's it? What about a post adventure synopsis interview? I bet the gal that quit on the day before they finished the trip was pretty disappointed with herself. Their last meal was a family of squirrels. You'd have thought that the producers would have at least left them something special. Oh well, I guess suffering through 28 days of survival and then getting back to civilization is reward enough.