Aug 20, 20213 min read

EXCELLENT CAMPING COOLER HACK: How to Keep Your Ice Cold 2x as Long

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This one is EASY BREEZY...

Whether you are motorcycle camping, car camping, van camping—whatever it is— your cooler and the environment you are camping in pretty much dictate how long your ice will last. Effectively, if your cooler size / type and conditions give you a day… this method will give you 2 days. If your ice standardly lasts 5 days, this will give you 10—so on and so forth

IT'S AS SIMPLE AS THIS…

Most all towns large and small have a source for dry ice. Google ahead and you'll see what I mean. Upon arrival to the town closest to your camp— or heck even before leaving town for that matter— get enough dry ice to layer the bottom of your cooler around 2-3 inches deep.

On top of that layer place any food items you'd like to stay frozen. Blanket that layer of frozen food in a little bit of ice and then load the cooler as you normally would

If you have no food or drink items being brought to camp that require being frozen simply put in your dry ice layer and then blanket it with a light layer of standard ice and then load your cooler as you normally would.

Voila! The camping goods that you desire to stay cold are primed for a far lengthier time to remain as such.

I've drank a warm beer or 3 in my day and it's not the end of the world but when it comes to meat and such the outcome can get a lil more hairy when consumed. lol. So we hope this tip helps.

Other key factors of course… decide what you want out of the cooler before you open it. Get in and get out. Also keep your cooler out of the sun-- finding shade goes a LONG way. Oh and most importantly--don't touch the dry ice. It doesn't end well. hahaha.

Stay cool ya'll.

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Billy J is co-founder of Story Moto ADV, a dual sport / adventure riding brand with strategic initiatives serving the health of the adventure touring community in order to develop a unified voice for speaking resolution into motorcycle land closures in the U.S. due to overcrowding and other public land use conflicts. He has been a rider for 45 years, an extreme adventurer for 31, and an avid dual sport adventure rider for 20. His first time living on a motorcycle for more than a year was in 1988 and most recently for 16 months living and riding full time with his wife Bonnie J and their kids on a tour that wrapped up in the summer of 2019 and recommenced in 2020 living full time on the road to the present day in a tactical rescue mini-pumper International diesel (named Ned) converted into a moto-life basecamp.