After testing these dry bags and stuff sacks while sea kayaking and canoeing in New Zealand’s Fiordlands National Park and Whanganui River, and sea kayaking Alaska’s Glacier Bay National Park, they’ve become my go-to gear storage units for paddling trips, and I use the dry sacks on any potentially wet backpacking trip.

Why? For starters, the roll-top closures on both kept contents dry through everything I encountered, including when my partner and I rolled our canoe in one rapid on the Whanganui. We swam for several minutes pulling our capsized canoe into shallow water where we could right it. But we were in no danger of anyone knowing of our blunder by seeing wet gear later; everything remained perfectly dry.

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