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My Colman extreme will keep ice as long as any molded cooler. You tube vids to prove it. Mine was $29.
It’s the complete opposite. If you spend a lot of time in the wilderness then they are WAY too heavy. Those yeti type coolers are only good for your house, a boat, or carrying in a vehicle. For serious wilderness activities where you can actually load a cooler on a horse the only way to go is cheap and lightweight. keep it in the shade or even dig a hole for it. I seriously kept ice for 5 days 6 miles from the nearest gravel road in a $16 igloo from walmart by being thoughtful about where we kept it and keeping it closed. Never once got below freezing. Highs were 70 during the day.
Leave my Yeti in the back of my truck 24/7. Freshen it up with about 2 lbs of ice in it every 4th or 5th day. Always leave an inch or so of water in the bottom. Keeps my Mello Yellos & wife’s Diet Cokes ice cold. Got a Yeti coozie that I keep in the fridge until ready for use. Can’t prove it but it seems to keep the drink colder for a longer period of time. But the best Yeti we have is the one we use for coffee. I make my coffee at 5:50 every morning and it keeps it warm until about 9:00. Yes, I know, but I’m not big on coffee though I do like the caffeine in the morning.
Bank. I didn't mean hiking, I meant far away from an ice machine. Few people actually move more than a few feet from the comforts of their camps. So again, if you're going to be in camp for more than 3 days, the Yeti might make sense. If you're like 99% or more of situations where a cooler is used, any decent cooler will keep things reasonably cool for 3 days. Use common sense of course, keep the cooler out of direct sun.
Dang! I just peed in the grill.
The nicest thing about the high dollar coolers is simply convenience. I can load it down on a Thursday afternoon for a long weekend at the lake or offshore fishing and not worry about it all weekend and into Tuesday. If convenience of not having to stop and grab ice is a nice thing to you, then it’s worth it
as far as the high priced coolers go, I prefer pelican above others
Safe to say no proof is necessary that a chilled coozie will keep beer cooler longer than a coozie at room temperature.
I wasn’t talking about hiking either. A person isn’t going to carry any type of cooler very far, but you said “wilderness” which eliminates car camping in my mind. If you are car camping, then you for sure don’t need a yeti because you can use the vehicle to shield the cooler. People just don’t know that most coolers will keep ice for 3-4 days if you chill it first (you have to do that with a yeti, too) and keep it out of direct sun. I’ve already stated the $16 igloos kept ice for 5 days for me, so how would it make sense to drop $350 on a cooler for 3-4 days of ice whike camping?
The reason yeti’s are good on a boat or the back of a truck is because of the sunlight exposure. If you can avoid the sun then the yeti is a total waste of money - and don’t expect 4-5 days from a yeti in direct sunlight Most people won’t even get 3