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the danger is always body produced moisture
DO SOME PEOPLE REALLY HAVE A DEATH WISH OR ARE THEY FUNCTIONING WITHOUT PROPER KNOWLEDGE OF WHAT THEY ARE DOING?Three or four years ago a British fellow embarked on a journey never accomplished before, it was a walk across Antarctica unsupported. The distance is 921 miles. He never made it and was medevac’d to a hospital I believe located [...]
the rip off
WIGGY’S SLEEPING BAG ON AMAZONToday I received an email about the taxes for mail order from a company I believe in Colorado. The writer said they saw a Wiggy bag on amazon.I went to the amazon web site and typed in Wiggy’s sleeping bags and sure enough there was a sleeping bag from Wiggy’s. It is said to [...]
the follow up in ca.
FOLLOW UP TO SPECIAL NOTICEI called the telephone number listed on the notice and was told the following.I did not have to do anything until I reached the $100,000.00 threshold starting April 1, 2019 in the balance of the calendar year. I said that I would still have to isolate CA. in order to know what sales were for [...]
some companies can not be shamed
SOME COMPANIES HAVE NO SHAME OR COMMON SENSEFor the last few years I have been stating that the hoho institute (hohenstein institute) is farcical with respect to many of its testing of materials. I believe they in the outdoor industry are birds of a feather. This institute will never tell any of their clients their product doesn’t work. If [...]
natick sources sought notice
BUT FIRST SOME TESTIMONIALSMy first clue that something was amiss was when my dog climbed into my Wiggy's Hunter Ultra-Light with Nautilus overbag bag in the middle of the night. Nature endowed her with a good coat, so I thought she might have been frightened by something outside. (Bears and mountain lions have been killing livestock in the immediate [...]
another miracle product
MIRACLES CONTINUE TO ABOUNDhttps://embrlabs.com/Shorts, t-shirt, flip flops climbing Longs Peak....just fine, wear this on your wrist!Geez, I also wonder how well this product links with a new $1600 Wi-Fi graphene goretex aerogel USB enabled heated parka in the wilderness when beyond cell range.Anyways, thought this might give you an ironic chuckle.Cheers Jerry! Thank you for making great gear at [...]
awards for finishing in last place
AWARDS FOR THE INCOMPETENTThe following article is reprinted from the on line magazine Sportstextiles.Innovation Award honour for I-ThermicA joint-project on which outdoor brand Odlo worked with apparel group MAS and French start-up Clim8 is among the initiatives honoured in the 2019 Innovation Awards programme run by consumer technology event CES, which next takes place in Las Vegas from January 8-11.Odlo is [...]
honesty is gone
LET US GRAPHENE THE WORLDThe following article comes from the sportstextile online publication 12/12/18nov-8 unveil world’s first-ever graphene hiking bootsThe world’s first-ever hiking boots to utilise graphene – the strongest material on the planet – have been unveiled by British brand inov-8.Since the graphene material is so strong we should use it to build houses etc.Building on the international [...]
lab rats
NOW FOR THE REDICULOUSGraphene could help make smart textiles even smarterResearchers at University of Exeter in the UK believe graphene, widely accepted as being the thinnest material on earth, could hold the key to the creation of affordable, durable and mass-produced smart textiles.SMART TEXTILES(?) how does an inanimate material get smart; or how does it get anything? A team at the [...]
what would you do
WHAT WOULD YOU DO?Several months ago I was contacted by a civilian who works for the U.S. Marine Corps about my mukluks. I was told that they needed them for EXTREME cold weather and they had to be FIRE RETARDANT. The mukluks were made for and have regularly been used in extreme cold conditions all over the world. [...]