Found Slovenian Hiking Pack in US
Posted by mericansquirrel@reddit | AskBalkans | View on Reddit | 5 comments
Hello! I found this hiking pack at a thrift store in Western Pennsylvania, USA. I have been trying to find any mention of the brand online but haven’t found anything. A user on r/hikinggear pointed out that Lendava is a border town in Slovenia and Novak could be a family owned hiking store. I am hoping to find some more information on the pack since it needs some repairs. Any help is appreciated! Thanks!
chunek@reddit
Very likely that this was a family owned business, but I couldn't find anything online as well. It probably shut down in the 90s or the 00s, as a lot of European textile industry moved their production into cheaper parts of the world, with whom local shops and factories couldn't compete. It was also a time, when local Slovenian production lost its home market, with the end of Yugoslavia, and the yugoslav wars.. so it was even harder to survive for such types of business.
Lendava is a bilingual town, where both Slovenian and Hungarian are official languages. But "Novak" is very much a slavic lastname, where nov means new, and -ak implies that it is a person, so like a "new guy in town". It is a very common lastname, also in other countries, so it is hard to find anything about this backpack in particular, even tho Lendava is a small town. I only found one expired ad, of someone selling a hiking backpack from the very same brand, so it looks like it did in fact exist, but nothing else unfortunately.
"športni izdelki iz tekstila" translates to "sport products (made) out of textile". If you were wondering.
Your best bet is to fix it yourself.
mericansquirrel@reddit (OP)
thank you for the information! very much appreciated, would you mind sending the link for the expired ad? for my own curiosity. this seems like it will be a treasured possession of mine once i get it fixed
chunek@reddit
Sure, here you go.
But for me, when I open the page, the ad is blurred, probably cause it expired. But in google search, it says: "Nahrbtnik za v hribe, 65l. Izdelan je v Sloveniji, blagovne znamke Novak Lendava, Športni izdelki iz tekstila.". It translates to "Backpack for hiking, 65l (liters). Made in Slovenia, of the brand Novak Lendava, etc.". So, not very helpful.
mericansquirrel@reddit (OP)
the strap and zipper placements look very similar, may not be very helpful but still very cool. thanks again for the help
fluffytoad1@reddit
Ok