Yeti’s Surprising New Drop Redefines Its Iconic Cooler Lineup

Yeti built a vast outdoor empire with ultratough hard coolers. The iconic Tundra is famously rugged, keeps ice for days and makes for a pretty good seat on a boat or truck bed.

But even in its smallest form, Yeti’s renown cooler is heavy, hard to carry and pretty pricey, all things considered.

In other words, it’s overkill for everyday situations that call for a day’s worth of thermal retention but don’t involve any bear sightings.

Enter the rapidly expanding Daytrip collection, which now boasts Yeti’s most practical, and affordable, coolers to date.

For what it’s worth, the brand calls the new Daytrip inductees “insulated boxes,” not coolers. But reducing them to mere lunch vessels risks limiting their potential.

The largest size, which boasts a nine-liter capacity, can carry a 12-pack of beer, besting Yeti’s longstanding Hopper Flip 8 soft cooler.