Backpack liters get a water test on MyLifeOutdoors
With no new uploads, Steven's capacity-check Short shares attention with his redwood and quicksand explorations.
Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
Are Brands Trying To Trick You? #backpacking #shorts
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The labels need unpacking. In "Are Brands Trying To Trick You? #backpacking #shorts", Steven takes a hose to a backpack advertised as holding 60 liters and finds he cannot fit that much water inside.
His explanation is less straightforward than the title's suspicion: some brands provide extra room, while others include external pockets in their capacity figures. A yellow REI Flash 55 gets the water treatment too. It's a satisfyingly literal approach to a familiar gear-shopping problem: two packs with similar numbers needn't offer the same usable space.
MyLifeOutdoors posted nothing new this week, but that October Short is currently drawing the most daily views among the channel's highlighted uploads. Across the catalog, the channel added roughly 760,000 views. Subscribers held steady, and daily viewing is running at less than half its usual level.
The longer adventures have their own staying power. "We Found What They Don't Want You To See", Steven's trip to the edge of the restricted area around the redwood Hyperion, has reached about 2.8 million views. His homemade quicksand experiment is also continuing to draw viewers, taking a movie staple into the realm of mixtures, research and attempted self-rescue.
It's a slower spell elsewhere in this outdoors neighborhood too: LastBush Survival and Millennial Farmer are both seeing daily views well below their usual levels. For Steven, the week's most active subjects remain distinctly hands-on: what fits in a pack, what lets a tree grow so tall, and what happens when the ground won't hold you.
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Which backpack does Steven fill with water in his capacity-testing Short?
The yellow pack in Steven's demonstration is an REI Flash 55.




