The camping trip is over, the food and drinks are gone and there’s that awkward cooler taking up room in the back of the SUV. Sure the inside is a little damp and the FDA wouldn’t approve, but might ...

Soft collapsible coolers save space when empty, but they crush under weight, and most of them leak. Hard coolers can be unwieldy space hogs. Happily, we can have the best of both with the hybrid Kelty ...

Companies often measure their coolers with a dubious metric called “ice retention.” That’s the number of days that ice stays intact inside the insulated cavity. But there are so many factors: What was ...

In the Camping 101 episode of Peak Northwest, a travel and outdoors podcast dedicated to the adventure and exploration of our beautiful corner of the world, Oregonian/OregonLive reporters Jim Ryan and ...

Perhaps in response to Yeti, one of the first manufacturers to find serious traction by selling $500 uber-coolers, the portable insulation game has become the new black for loads of gear-makers. This ...

Fill it with three gallons of water, lay it in the sun, and at the end of the day you’ve got a seven-minute warm shower. Because the chamber can be pressurized with the included pump and not just ...

So here’s the scenario: you’re going camping this weekend with some of your bro's, don’t have a whole lot of room in the car, and need a way to keep cold all the beer you plan on knocking down in the ...