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Sealock manufactures the large capacity cooler backpack for group camping that wholesale buyers and outdoor brands source for basecamp and expedition ranges. Feeding a group in the field is a logistics problem: several people's food and drink for a day or two has to be hauled from a trailhead or a car park to a pitch

Sealock manufactures the cooler backpack with a waterproof zipper that buyers increasingly specify by name, because the zipper is the one part that decides whether an insulated bag actually seals or merely looks like it does.

Travelers are, in effect, running a small cold chain: medication, baby food, snacks and drinks have to stay cold across airport queues, cabin hours, layovers and long highway stretches, inside a bag that also has to behave as carry-on luggage and survive a car footwell.

A picnic is a small expedition with a happy ending: the food, the wine and the blanket all have to reach a meadow, a lakeshore or a quiet hilltop, usually a walk from the car, and arrive cold and intact.

​A festival cooler lives a different life than a campsite one: it spends the day shoulder-to-shoulder in a crowd, gets carried for hours on foot, slides through a bag check at the gate, and keeps a group's drinks cold from the opening act to the encore. ​

A hiking cooler is a different animal from a tote: it has to ride on the back for miles, hold cold through a long day in the sun, and carry food, drinks and gear without wrecking a shoulder.