Lightweight Cooler

[GABob]

Months ago, I was chatting with someone in a meeting, and they shared that their college age son was working with a group to launch a kickstarter project. They came up with a lightweight cooler that had good cold retention properties like the rotomolded coolers. It caught my interest as the cooler I have(rotomolded, of course) weighs more than enough when empty. Hauling that thing when we load up and empty out is a PITA. So, I decided to search them out on Kickstarter and committed to be a startup sponsor.


Received my cooler today and I must say I'm pretty impressed! It weighs in around ten pounds and holds 45 qts. Looking forward to the next trip to see how it performs, but from what I see so far it will make the back muscles a little happier. If you're in the market for a new cooler that's a bit easier to handle, you might want to take a look at the Onitis 45 at Ruggedroadoutdoors.com. I have no affiliation with these folks whatsoever; just thought I'd share.

[Trapper2020]

Start up sponsor
No affiliation at all

How’s that work?

Enjoy the journey

[norty1]

Does that mean you agreed to be a charter customer?

[GABob]

Nope, just one of the first customers, plain and simple. Kickstarter is a crowd funding platform for new business ventures, where when you commit to be one of the first purchases you typically receive a discounted price. For this project, if they didn't reach the level of funding required, the project would not go forward and your order was simply cancelled.


They met their funding objective to launch into production months ago, and the coolers were projected to ship end of September. Just received mine yesterday afternoon. I like how the rotomolded units retain their cooling power, but I'm the one who has to lug that thing around, by myself. When I heard of this coming out, it caught my interest. Don't get me wrong, as I still have a 21 year old spirit, just that it now resides in a 62 year old body . I haven't used it yet, of course, and will report back as I plan on testing it before I make my next trip.