Capsized and Still Warm: Customer Stories

LETTERS FROM MY VALUED CUSTOMERS

Dear Jerry:
Your Overbag sleeping bag has proven itself during the last six months on my vacation in Australia and New Zealand. It was affordable, easily stored, cleaned and durable. It is a pleasure to sleep in as the hood and construction make for a very comfortable temperature in the moderate to hot climates; I have been in. (Not too hot or cold.) Thanks for superior product.

- Lee Bailey (Received this post card from Christchurch, N.Z.)
March 2, 1999

I have been meaning to e-mail you to tell you a story about your sleeping bags. Last summer myself, a friend, and his girl friend decided to go on a canoeing trip on the North Plate in Wyoming. We arrived late to our drop off point and decided that we needed to get down stream a ways in order to not have to push each day to make it to our pickup area on time. So we headed out.

After about an hour we heard what sounded like some pretty nasty rapids (it was dark by that time). So we headed towards shore. Little did we know that there was an old car in the river? We hit the car and submerged our canoe. None of us had gear in a dry bag (big mistake). So we climbed to shore only to realize that our tent wasn't tied to the canoe and it went down the river. It was raining pretty hard with no shelter around. I pulled out a tarp, my Wiggy's pad and bag (Overbag). My friend had a down bag and his girl friend a Quallofil bag. All soaked through. I jumped in my bag and within fifteen minutes or so I could feel nothing but warmth and fell asleep. I woke up in the middle of the night realizing that they had pulled the tarp off of me and I was sleeping in nothing but water. But I wasn't cold so I went back to sleep. In the morning they told me that they froze their butts off. I slept like a baby.

Little to my surprise we capsized the canoe two days later. This time we had time to stop. We tried to dry out three bags. The Quallofil bag was about half dry by morning and the down bag was still soaking wet despite our efforts. I didn't even bother to dry my Wiggy's bag out; I just threw it on my ground pad and went fishing. When I returned and was ready for bed it was dry as a bone

Thanks for a GREAT product

- David J. Malara
1 April 1999

I had a chance to use my Ultra Light for the first time this weekend in the Shenandoah National Park. The Wiggy bag was amazing. The temperature kept dropping throughout the night from 45 to 40 to probably 35 but I was absolutely totally warm in the Ultra Light. In fact, I was almost, almost hot I felt like I was warn enough to be perspiring slightly but there was not a bit of moisture inside the bag. I had some trouble adjusting to the mummy hood but even that was sorted out by morning.

Imagine my surprise when I woke around six and it was probably 36 degrees in the tent and I found the tent sagging with moisture, moisture on the outside of my bag, moisture everywhere and inside the bag was as dry as a bone. I had never experienced anything like it. She used the Wiggy pillow so I've decided I've got to order another pillow. Amazing night.

The only thing I wonder about is whether the bag might be to hot in the summer; I think I will sleep on it or open it.

- Chris Adams
25 April 1999

Incidentally - I did a midweek reading trip (sometimes when I have lots to read I go to the mountains) and I used the bag on top of a 4200-foot summit. The temps to dropped around 30. I have never slept so well. The bag is simply amazing. Absolutely changed my view of sleeping in a tent.

- Chris Adams
May 1999