Lightweight Packable Hip Pack

Use:

• Ideal for trips where every gram and cubic centimeter counts, allowing you to carry essential documents, money, and a phone safely and accessibly.
• Perfect as a minimalist transport solution for light outdoor activities such as short hikes, nature walks, or recreational cycling, keeping your hands free and essentials protected.
• A practical accessory for daily urban use, facilitating quick errands, shopping, or outings where you don't want to carry bulky bags or backpacks.
• Ideal companion for events, concerts, and festivals, offering secure and discreet storage for important personal items, allowing you to enjoy the moment without worries.
• Works as an excellent secondary or emergency bag, as it can be carried folded in a suitcase, larger backpack, or in the car, ready to be unfolded when extra capacity is needed without adding significant weight.
• Columbia has designed this waist pack to address the need for an ultralight and extremely compact carrying option, true to its commitment to creating functional and versatile gear for adventurers and urban explorers who value efficiency and preparedness.

Features:

• Adjustable hip belt that ensures a comfortable, secure, and personalized fit for different sizes and carrying preferences, whether on the waist, cross-body, or as a sling bag.
• Packs into its own external accessory pocket, transforming into a small package that greatly facilitates its transport and storage when not in use, optimizing luggage space.
• Ultralight design that minimizes additional load on the user, ideal for maintaining agility and comfort during any activity, living up to its name "Lightweight".
• Spacious main compartment with zipper closure, designed to organize and secure essential belongings such as keys, wallet, mobile phone, a small snack, or a map.
• The external accessory pocket not only serves as a self-stowing pouch, but can also offer quick-access space for small items like lip balm or hand sanitizer when the waist pack is unfolded and in use.

Materials:

• Made entirely of 100% polyester, a synthetic textile material specifically selected for its exceptional lightness, which directly contributes to the product's portability and user comfort, being a key factor for its packable design.
• The polyester fabric used offers good abrasion resistance and overall durability relative to its weight, ensuring the waist pack can withstand the demands of casual use, travel, and the process of being repeatedly folded and unfolded without premature wear.
• This material has excellent folding and compression capabilities, allowing the waist pack to be efficiently compacted into its external accessory pocket, occupying minimal volume, without suffering significant structural damage or permanent wrinkles.
• Among polyester's inherent properties are relatively quick drying and low moisture absorption, which is advantageous in case of exposure to light rain or splashes, helping to keep the contents more protected and facilitating its maintenance.

Eco-Certifications and Brand Sustainability Practices:

• Columbia is a bluesign® System Partner, which means its collaboration with the bluesign® system to apply safer and more sustainable textile production solutions, minimizing environmental impact throughout the value chain and ensuring consumer-safe products.
• The brand adheres to a strict Restricted Substances List (RSL) and is a member of the AFIRM Group, ensuring rigorous control over the use of chemicals in its products, prioritizing consumer health and environmental protection.
• Manufacturing Standards of Practice (SMP) are applied, which establish requirements for fair, safe, and healthy working conditions in its global supply chain, regularly auditing its manufacturing partners.
• Columbia uses tools such as the Higg Index (Facility Environmental Module - FEM) and participates in the Social & Labor Converged Assessment Framework (SLCP) to measure, compare, and improve the environmental and social performance of its partner factories, promoting resource efficiency and the standardization of social audits.
• Through its Material Traceability Program, the brand seeks to increase transparency and accountability regarding the origin of its product components, allowing for better tracking of its value chain.
• The brand supports initiatives such as Fair Trade Certification and the Carbon Leadership Project in some of its supplier factories, contributing to improving workers' living conditions and reducing the carbon footprint in production.
• Columbia participates in the Apparel Impact Institute's (Aii) Clean by Design program and is a member of the OIA Climate Action Corps, demonstrating its active commitment to reducing environmental impact in the industry and combating climate change.
• Transparency is a fundamental pillar for the brand, evidenced by its adherence to the Transparency Pledge, the publication of its Supply Chain Transparency Statement (complying with California SB 657 and the UK Modern Slavery Act), and the use of Open Supply Hub (OSH) to share information about its supply chain.
• Additionally, Columbia demonstrates a corporate commitment to sustainability through the acquisition of Green-e® Certified Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs), its ReThreads program for garment recycling, support for the RISE (formerly HERproject) program for women worker empowerment, its membership in the European Outdoor Conservation Association (EOCA), adherence to SASB reporting standards, and alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs).
• The brand also collaborates with various organizations and foundations such as Planet Water Foundation, National Park Foundation, Conservation International, Captains For Clean Water, Ocean Conservancy, UK National Parks, Leave No Trace (through its Mountain Hardwear brand), Transition Projects, and the Collegiate Outdoor Recreation Program, reinforcing its commitment to environmental conservation, access to clean water, and support for communities and outdoor activities.