
You Should Know About the Other Brand Named Yeti
Years before Yeti built its bearproof coolers, another brand by the same name was making contraband sleeping bags in East Germany.
Tanner Bowden is a staff writer at Gear Patrol covering all things outdoors and fitness. He is a graduate of the National Outdoor Leadership School and a former wilderness educator. He lives in Brooklyn but will always identify as a Vermonter.
Years before Yeti built its bearproof coolers, another brand by the same name was making contraband sleeping bags in East Germany.
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