PackTowl Personal Quick Dry Microfiber Towel for Camping, Yoga, and Sports

I really wanted to like this towel, but the poor build quality and customer service left me feeling burned. I have washed the towel twice on the delicates/gentle wash cycle and used the towel once. The corner stitching has already began to fray.I tried to contact customer support, but they expect you to pay to ship the item back to have it fixed/replaced. I don't think this should be necessary on an item of this value, especially when a picture of the problem should be sufficient. I would therefore look elsewhere for a more durable product or for a company with a more consumer friendly warranty.

It's kind of hard to get excited about what amounts to a low-pile microfiber towel with a snap and a carry sack, but for hiking use this is a surprisingly nice product.At a size of 10X14, this is basically a useful enough size for most tasks for a backcountry hiker. Washing hands, cleaning dishes, using as a pillow cover, use as a pee rag (obviously, you'd get a second towel for this), and yes- cleaning off your body. You won't be using this as a regular towel, but a backcountry shower consisting of a couple of wet body wipes and a Packtowl slightly dampened with water goes a LONG way to keeping you feeling fresh and motivated. It collects and holds an enormous amount of water and it dries off when clipped to the outside of your backpack. Very simple and reliable.Packtowl does carry a couple of other lightweight, small towel options, including the Nano. However, what you'd find with the Nano is that it's so thin that it's essentially a very large eyeglass cleaning cloth. I'm sure that this is enough for a ultralite hiker, but to me this really degrades one of the best features of using a microfibre towel in the first place, which is its enormous absorbency. So to me, the Personal is still the best towel to bring along with you.

This towel is great in so many ways yet there are some cons. One con in particular makes me rate this a 3 of five.Cons:1. As others have noted, the threading on the edge of the towel unraveled after one wash. The washing was as per the manufacturer's directions; cold water, like colors, normal wash cycle; no fabric softener. I allowed it to air dry overnight. After using it once, I noticed the edge opposite the loop corner has frayed off. I don't know now if the actual towel fabric will start fraying or not, but this shouldn't happen after 1 wash. And I mention it only because others have, so I'm guessing this was a design flaw or a quality control issue.2.This is less a con than a caveat. The material feels strange on the skin. It's not bad; just very different from terry cloth. My wife likened it to a chamois, and it is very chamois-like, though synthetic. Don't be put off by it; just be aware that it feels differently on the skin than a regular towel.The pros:1. I got the "hand towel" size. It's rather large for a hand towel, but yet rather small for a body towel. Nonetheless, I could use both hands on the ends to dry my back, meaning it is just large enough if you're not a huge person to use after a full immersion shower.2. It really does soak up the moisture. Unlike a terry towel, this actually only requires one pass of the towel. So the caveat I mentioned above (how it feels on the skin) is more than compensated for its performance. This thin piece of material really does dry a normal sized man thoroughly.3. Out of the wash it dried overnight. It's sitting on a rack right now drying from the shower I took with it this morning, and mostly dry some hours later. I suspect it will be completely dry by morning, despite being rather wet when I hung it up.4. It packs really, really small. The "hand towel" size, despite its generous dimensions for a hand towel, packs into a small, zippered bag (included) the size of a birthday card envelope, and not much thicker than that. So for backpackers, or for a day pack, or a go bag, it's pretty hard to beat for size and weight. This would be a superlative for an emergency kit.Final Thoughts:I want to buy another of these towels maybe more, in a larger size. Yet I hesitate for the con I stated above: there's no point in shelling out more money if there's a consistent QUALITY CONTROL issue.

I have to say, I love love LOVE this towel. I bought it for my ambitious month-long honeymoon, traveling from California to Hawaii to Tokyo and then back to California. So far, I've used it at the beach, by the pool, and after the shower. Each time, I am amazed at how absorbent it is. Not only that, but it's soft, lightweight, and easy to pack. It must also be fairly stain-resistant, because I used it on my pink-dyed hair (which would have ruined any other towel) and it didn't leave any mark at all!If I could improve just 1 thing about it, it would be to have a built-in packing system rather than having a separate pouch. I'm 1 week into traveling and have already lost the pouch because my towel was in use a lot and the pouch was sort of an afterthought. :(

I brought this towel with me on a 3 week long trip, overall I'd say it's a fantastic product and does exactly as it says on the box. The only real drawback is, because of the material, the towel really does stick to you when you're drying yourself off. It's not going to feel like any normal bath towel you've used before and at first it will feel rather foreign, but you'll get used to it over time.The towel dries really quite quickly, even just left hanging on the side of my hostel's bunk bed.Although I didn't have much use for it on the trip, since most hostels provide towels, i feel it's something to keep handy just in case. I even used it as a ground mat, on dry grass of course, when i was lying down in a park.

This towel is great for camping and hiking, especially for cold weather camping. My small dog got into some very cold water and this towel dried him quickly, then I wrapped him up in it and it did an amazing job of reflecting his own body heat and keeping him toasty warm. Much more than I was expecting from such an inexpensive towel. (It actually wasn't this particular towel, to be honest, it was the exact same one bought from Steep and Cheap, but I was so impressed with it that I bought another from Amazon to have on hand. And this one I bought from Amazon looks to be the same as the S&C one, not a knockoff, so I feel confident in writing this review.)

Nice light weight towel. Ideal for travelling. Drys quick and feels soft

I am a person who (embarrassingly) perspires a lot. I never leave home without this towel. It’s super absorbent, dries quickly and takes up no space at all in my bag. I’d definitely recommend it to anyone

you wont find any better

Very soft and big.

Good quality