Nylinear Individual Carrying Equipment
The NICE/Alice System Pack FrameNylinear Individual Carrying Equipment
Day Desert, OD, Digi, Brown
NICE frames in living color.
foreground: adjuster/instructions; stowed load carriers.
One of the unchanging features of military life over the last 30(!) years, the ALICE pack system has defined a certain kind of pain for millions(!) of Americans.
Now, Dana Gleason has developed an ALICE compatible pack and frame system based on the principles that revolutionized internal frame packs for civilians and operators alike in the last decade. Imagine less fatigue, fewer injuries, less broken or abandoned gear - all from a simple change of pack frame, already compatible with the largest pool of existing gear in the world! Rather than try and re-invent the way you're going to carry your gear, the NICE/Alice frame gives you the best carry possible in the Alice system envelope.
Dana's Nylinear Mainframe combines flexibly joined carbon/fiberglass stays with a nylon skin that defines their shape and stiffness.
Built to the same size as the Alice frame, the NICE frame keeps the load low on your back for head/helmet clearance. Unlike the Alice frame, the NICE frame uses Lumbar Wrap technology to put the load on your hips, not your shoulders. Even better, the NICE frame's Outamatic fit system adapts to your personal size and shape, with or without ballistic protection.
Built to the same size as the Alice frame, the NICE frame keeps the load low on your back for head/helmet clearance. Unlike the Alice frame, the NICE frame uses Lumbar Wrap technology to put the load on your hips, not your shoulders. Even better, the NICE frame's Outamatic fit system adapts to your personal size and shape, with or without ballistic protection.
NICE frame adjusted short NICE frame adjusted tall
The NICE and ALICE frames are similar in size and superficial layout of the frames structural members. This keeps them 100% compatible - but the similarities end there...
| The NICE frame is fiberglass and carbon fiber, linked through impact absorbing joints. A springy strip of 7075 grade aluminum shapes the outamatic fit. Built to hold the load to you, and moves with you. Dimensions: 12 1/2" X 21" Weight: 3lbs 14 oz The NICE/Alice frame Bounces! on impact. Sizing The NICE frame easily adjusts between back lengths of 17" to 23" this corresponds to heights of 5'2 through 6'4. This lets us spread the load across your hips, back and shoulders while still providing ventilation - whatever your size, whatever your wearing. Mystery Ranch's Lumbar Wrap Hipbelt system - The most stable and comfortable hip belt system you can wear - fits easy, fits well, and fits with one pull on the buckle.  Close up of NICE frame lumbar wrap. Load Control The NICE frame has 2 horizontal and 2 vertical load control straps that anchor any packbag, even traditional ALICE packbags securely to your back no sway, no stagger. | The ALICE frame is 100% aluminum - rigid, designed to hold the load away from your back. Dimensions: 12 1/2" X 21" Weight: 3lbs 10 oz The ALICE system Bends or breaks under impact. The ALICE frame - one size fits all when you're whole load is on your shoulders. ALICE Padded Backband It's better than nothing. The ALICE frame has no load control; both ALICE packbags have 2 vertical straps |
The difference this makes in comfort and performance has to be tried to be believed. The Mystery Ranch can make a 40 lb load feel like it isn't there, and a 60 lb load feel reasonable!
The NICE pack frame's shape and buckles makes it compatible with all alice pack bags and adds 3 sets of compression/overloading straps that let you keep the NICE frame and any ALICE pack bag perfectly stable on your back.
How Stable? Well, you can move with this system, not stagger, for starters.
The above image shows the NICE pack frame's Nylinear Mainframe with carbon/fiberglass stays exposed. The NICE frame uses carbon reinforced fiberglass for it's main framing material, laid out in a grid that can flex at it's intersections. This lets the NICE frame move with your body without sagging under the load.
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| NICE/Alice frame with webbing. |
NICE/Alice frame with out webbing.
NICE/Alice frame with load sling attached, next to old ALICE system frame.
Paul Gleason with large ALICE ruck on NICE/Alice frame.
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