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January /
February
2003
".....anyone who fights for the
future,
lives in it today."
---Ayn Rand, The Romantic Manifesto
LETTER
Enclosures: catalog,
letter.
January 13,
2003
Re: Super Light Sleeping Bag
Dear
Wiggy
This brief note is written both to express my gratitude to you
and to affirm what you already know: you make a truly superior
bag.
As an ex-Marine, enthusiastic all-season hiker and “car
camper,” I have some expertise in sleeping bags, though that expertise is
largely limited as to how to put them in the trash without taking up the
whole can. After speaking with you on the phone and reading about your
work with the Marines (you know once a Marine…) I decided to buy a Super
Light, thought at the time I wasn’t as candid about my use of it as I
might have been. I knew that I was about to begin a series of operations
to repair extensive damage that had resulted from massive trauma. From
past experience, I know that after such surgeries something seems to go
haywire with my body’s own internal “thermostat,” and I tend to get hot
and then cold then hot and that I have to provide externally what my body
seems unable to do during that time. As I now live alone, it is no longer
possible for me to call out to ask for extra blankets or bags of ice or
whatever, and, as this is a very serious circumstance for me, of course I
tried your bag in advance of the surgeries and it did, indeed, perform as
you had said that it would. It also allowed me to maintain a reasonably
stable body temperature during post-op periods, as needed, aided in no
small part by the flawless zipper and well-fitting hood and what is
without question the best “foot box” ever put on a sleeping bag. My
recuperation is now far enough along that I have dragged the bag outside
and used it in the car on nights when it has been in single digit
temperatures. I have washed it in a regular washing machine and in every
respect the bag is superior to any bag I have ever before used, far
surpassing you rather understated reports about it. Truly, I am grateful
to you both for the bag and for reminding me that American products can be
the best. You may be sure that I will be in touch looking for other
products, but, in the meantime, if this note would be of any value to your
customers in deciding about your bags, feel free to use it in any way. I
realize that my tale is not as dramatic as many you have received, but you
have changed my outlook about sleeping bags entirely as I know now that
there is a bag that I can count on to work in difficult and
disparate conditions and, frankly, it is something I had pretty much given
up on finding.
Thank you again. Keep up the good
work!
Your newly devoted customer,
James
Colbert
Jim to my friends ---and to
you!
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