Geez I thought about this a hundred times on the west coast trail this year . Ours didn ' t come apart , they were the collapsible ones 3 sections . A real pain in the butt to collapse them and stow them every time we reached a ladder . Holding them really isn ' t safe in this situation . The best thing would be some sort of magnet solution so that you can just fling them onto your pack and then grab them off . <| sep |> What ? No . The upgrade period is over . <| sep |> But how well does it avoid them ? <| sep |> We ' re Australians , we don ' t have to wait for shit , we do what we do best . <| sep |> Retailed for 650 tax lol . <| sep |> Yes , zyck is right . The group of students that built this did in fact remove the back plates .