Hi,

I like bringing my camera and limited gear while hiking in the (west
coast) national parks, but I wonder what kind of bag you use. My problem
is that I normally would bring about a galon of water for a day hike,
but have not found a good camera bag which easily allow me to carry this
amount of water.

Preferably I would use a camel-bag like water "tank"/reservoir (you
know, the ones where you can drink directly from) on a good photo
backpack, but photo backpacks I have seen does not allow a galon of
water to be placed close to the body. Some will allow me to insert the
reservoir in the front of the bag, but that would be as far away from
the body as possible and not the prefered choice.

Ideally such a good hiking daypack should also have space for other
things (did I say food?) as one can not live on water alone ;-)

Martin