antarctic parka

Night out at -45 below

I have a Wiggy's Parka!!! It is an XXL. I can wear it alone or put it right over the coat I usually wear on my trapline in Alaska! I carry it in a compression bag on the sled. Behind my Sno-go (snowmobile to you flat landers). It finally happened, I was breaking the trail, 55 miles from the road, when my sno-go broke down for the first time so that I could not fix it enough to get the old girl home - the engine blew up at over 21,000 miles. It was -30 and I had only an hour or so before dark. Not sure exact temperatures that night - but the red stuff was all in the bottom of a zipper tab thermometer!!! From that and 45 years of Alaskan Bush experience, it was at least -45 below that night. I had a Satellite phone, and a Super Cub (small Bush airplane on skies) picked me up about noon the next day. Being a trapper - of course I put my own Wolf/Wolverine Ruff on hood. My Wiggy Parka sure helped me make it through the night. I do NOT venture out without it!!!

ALLEN

I have never had a problem getting on a platform stating what I know about my products but when users write to me about their experiences with them, I always take the opportunity to publicize what they say.

The number of testimonials about Wiggy’s sleeping bags is vast. The number of comments about the Antarctic parka is less. In my personal experience during my years hunting, I always wore my Antarctic parka because temperatures were always -20 and below with my fishnets and a shirt and it was never cold. Hearing from customers using the parka in similar or colder conditions does not surprise me.

When I ended my relationship with the Wiggy’s Alaska store I ended selling my parkas and bibs to the oil industry on the north slope. Recently an oil company came to me to make all their parkas. I was told that the employees working at the oil patch only wanted Wiggy’s parkas. That is a testament to the quality of Lamilite insulating ability.

Since the building of Alyeska pipeline these oilfield workers have been either been supplied parkas or had to buy their own and I am very proud to say in the past 10/12 years that Wiggy’s Antarctic parkas have been worn they have become the parka of choice.

Since these parkas will be for next winter I expect, the subcontractors will need to supply their workforce as they have in the past.

Maybe the word will get out to the public as well.

The Lamilite is always the primary factor why the Wiggy’s products perform so well in a cold environment.