This is one amazing piece of luggage. It doesn't look like much from the outside, but begin sticking things into it and you'll soon find out it seems to be bottomless.

The bag's concept is clever and exceptionally usable: the bottom part behaves like a regular bag, fit to pack folded clothes, with hold-down straps. The top part is like a duffel, perfect for irregularly shaped or harder objects. The two compartments open with independent zippers (meaning you need two luggage padlocks) and are separated by a soft nylon cover that remains rolled to one side with a velcro strap; simply unroll it and zip it around. If you want to use the whole bag as a duffel -- and a very spacious one, at that --, jusr keep the divider rolled.

The High Sierra 26" can be used as an upright wheeled bag, a backpack (the straps are packed into a zippered compartment in the back) or a duffel. As an upright, it is brilliant: this is the first wheeled duffel I own that actually stands vertical instead of just keeling over. If the bag is full, the outside pockets become very small -- because what's in the bag compresses pocket space -- and not really useful, but this doesn't bother me.

Construction seems to be solid, although I've yet to submit it to more arduous challenges. So far, it has resisted well.