Jansport D2 External Frame Pack Yes, this is a brand new backpack, and it's for sale (or will be, in spring 2011). In 1972, Jansport put out a.

By Stephen Regenold In this column last month, I covered two major companies, Kelty and JanSport, who will introduce retro-style, external-frame backpacks in 2011. The article pitched external ...

In this column last month, I covered two major companies, Kelty and JanSport, who will introduce retro-style, external-frame backpacks in 2011. The article pitched external-frame packs as ...

Skip Yowell, a Kansas boy and avowed hippie who made it to Mt. Everest, co-founded the JanSport company and sold backpacks by the millions, has died. He was 69. Yowell had lung cancer, his sister ...

Take the school backpack, for example. Its invention can be traced to one man, Murray McCory, who died last month. McCory founded JanSport in 1967 with his future wife (Jan, the company’s namesake).

Murray McCory, who founded JanSport while a student at UW and whose lightweight backpack, revolutionized school life for millions of students, died Oct. 7 in Seattle.

Murray McCory, who founded the outdoor equipment company JanSport, which developed the school backpack. He also fashioned a tent with a dome-shaped frame that was both lightweight and strong ...