Cooler Recommendation

[Smalliebigs]

Not really. While I agree that ice becomes drinking water in time, bottles frozen at home aren't as cold as the ice you get from a good vending box. A piece of dry ice will lengthen the life of a cooler filled with ice. All the old tricks work in the new insulation to extend their usefulness..

It's hard in my opinion to make a cooler work for day trips and multiple days trips. Any form of using one cooler for cool and another for storage will extend the life of ice in the storage unit.

the Yeti will keep ice in summer temps camping on the river for 5 to 6 days, it will be melting very slowly with a little water but you will have ice.If I put chunks of ice in there "small water bottles frozen" it will keep the ice I know of ten days, I just got sick of having ice in the cooler so I cleaned it.I don't know what the temp is of my deep freeze in the basement but the ice from there will allow me to keep ice in a cooler longer than I need to, without buying dry ice.I guess I'm saying it's not a must but, it helps me to keep ice longer than I will ever need short of some sort of doomsday scnario.

[DaveMac]

OK, so I pulled the trigger on a Fishpond Ice Storm cooler. Ten bucks off with free shipping from Amazon!