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Keep Food And Drinks Supplies Chilled With Backpack Cooler Bags

A lightweight backpack cooler, with soft-side or hard-shell construction, offers a versatile tote to take a multitude of chilled drinks or snacks to a park, field, or on a hike.

A cooler/backpack bag is often split into 2 to 3 sections, with the bottom section featuring a Thermo-Guard insulated cooler, with its ability to store light snacks or soda cans at the ideal temperature for a number of hours. The top-section, with its drawstring or zippered closure offers a convenient space to conceal clothes, towels, sunglasses or similar such essentials. A third, breathable mid-section sometimes features for stowing damp items.

A quality-styled cooler/backpack often resembles a regular backpack from the outside – although its internal space is broken up into separate compartments to offer that vital chilled load area. As a means to avoid moisture penetrating all areas of a backpack, the chilled-section is heat-sealed, which offers a water-repellent liner to stop leaks.

Popular features to a versatile cooler bag include – comfortable, soft air-mesh or padded shoulder straps, outside pockets for quick access to sunglasses, charts, water bottles, etc, ease in hauling 6 to 12 standard soda cans, and its removable plastic liner offers complete ease in cleaning.

Picnic Time, Samfe, Coleman and Ogio all produce a series of quality cooler/backpack styled bags, with solid constructions in polyester-canvas, 600-denier polyester, and tear-resistant nylon materials.

Recreational coolers also include the personal cooler, which is effectively a compact lunch-tote, the marine cooler is cased in a resilient, UV-resistant to cope with the harsh conditions out on the water, the thermoelectric cooler comes with a efficient plug-and-go design, these are ideal for a car, truck, SUV or similar such vehicle. A soft-sided model is perfect as a lightweight option, with a choice to carry via hand or shoulder straps, and a high-volume chest cooler is perfect for longer-term storage, with its ability to maintain food or drink supplies at a desired temperature for 4 or 5 days.

Whether it is for a sports event, picnic, fishing or camp trip, a cooler bag with its divided compartments for snacks, beverages, or clothing items, offers a great backpack for those outdoor pursuits.

Stewart Thomlin writes articles, reviews, and products reports on a variety of topics, including those on the Backpack Cooler Bag and the Shaker Bottles.