Aarn bodypacks.

• Author: Peterson, Eric
• Position: COLORADO COOL STUFF - Brief article

New Zealand-based Aarn doesn't make backpacks - the company makes biomechanic-friendly bodypacks. With front and back pockets, an Aarn bodypack balances perfectly on its wearer's center of gravity and keeps the weight off the spine and on the hips. In other words: where it's supposed to be.

New Zealand-based Mark Keown met eponymous founder Aarn Tate and contacted his Colorado Springs-based niece, Windy Haddad, and her husband, Dana Adoretti, about bringing bodypacks to the U.S. market; the trio inked a deal to become the company's exclusive North America distributor last November.

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