Peak Design Travel Pouch

Review by Erin Trail

The Peak Design Travel Pouch helps to keep all of your chargeables organized at home or while on the go.

Details

• External Dimensions 24cm x 15cm x 10cm (9.5″ x 6″ x 4″)
• Volume: 2L
• Weight: 288g (10.2 oz)
• 100% recycled Weatherproof 400D nylon Versa Shell™ that’s Bluesign approved
• Super-durable #8 UltraZip with abrasion-resistant UHMPE thread
• Thin high-density foam within outer shell for structure/protection

Review

As an endurance athlete who likes technology, I have a LOT of devices.  And along with those devices are a LOT of cables, many of which are proprietary.  But as is the case with charging cables, they are all black.  I was keeping all of the regularly used cables in a bowl on my kitchen counter, as my way of keeping them organized.  But inevitably, whenever something needed charging, I would spend a frustrating amount of time picking my way through the spaghetti bowl of cables, in search of the proprietary cable that was required to charge my dying device.

And that was just daily use.  Imagine traveling to triathlon races with all of those cables and chargers and the small batteries and devices that belong to the chargers/cables!

The Peak Design Travel Pouch might be the singular solution to my cable and charger frustrations.

The exterior of the pouch is unassuming with minimal branding and detail.  The exterior fabric is a very durable 100% recycled Weatherproof 400D nylon Versa Shell™.  The #8 UltraZip zippers glide easily without a lot of muscle or struggle.  There’s also several exterior loops to give you endless options for storing or connecting the Tech Pouch to other bags.

The interior of  the Peak Design Travel Pouch is where the magic happens.  There are MANY (and I mean MANY) pockets of varying sizes and orientations, giving you complete flexibility with how you set things up.

First, I love how the interior of all of the pouch colorways is a light color.  By keeping things lightly colored, it makes a nice contrast against black cables.  This avoids an annoying “black hole” within the pouch and makes it easy to see individual items.

I’ve used the smaller sidewall drop in pockets to store my proprietary cables, rolling them up and having the charger end stick out for easy identification.  No more digging through a pile of cables to find a specific one.

The inner open pouch areas are sized enough to hold a single 10,000 mAh power bank.  There’s a few of these sized pouch areas, so you could theoretically pack in multiple power banks for easy grab and go storage.

There several larger elastic walled drop in pockets.  I’ve used those to store groupings of similar cables (USB-C, micro USB-A) that are more common but I seem to need several of each when I travel.

There’s also a lengthwise long zipper pocket that has interior elastic drop in pockets.  This spot is the perfect location for my Whoop battery and my SRAM battery.  Both of these batteries are small and are easy to lose.  This spot will keep them secure and easy to find.

The interior fabric is a nice soft brushed fabric, so you won’t have to worry about scratching displays on phones, bike computers, or smart watches.

There’s also a handy exterior pocket that fits a phone.  They’ve designed a small pass through, so you can feed a cord from a power bank through and connect to charge your phone.  This pocket wasn’t quite large enough to fully zip closed while my phone was connected to a charging cable, but it’s a pretty tight fit, so I’d feel comfortable with this set up while sitting on an airplane or when moving minimally.

The Peak Design Travel Pouch I tested is the regular size.  For daily, sitting on the counter use, it is a bit oversized.  However, for travel, this pouch will easily fit all of my random devices, batteries, power banks, and devices that I bring with me on my triathlon racing adventures.

I’ve been using the Peak Design Travel Pouch for a few weeks now, and since setting it up and getting things organized, I haven’t once had an evening “I need to charge my swim goggles before I can swim in morning… where’s the dang cable” moment.  And this right there is an amazing thing.

Closing Thoughts

The Peak Design Travel Pouch is an elegant, smart, and easy way to keep your collection of electronics organized.  It’s available in small and regular sizes.  Each size is available in eight different colorways.

Erin Trail

Trail Boss of Stoke

Erin Trail on her mountain bike at the World Tri Cross Triathlon World Championship race

Erin Trail on her running at the World Tri Cross Triathlon World Championship race