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THANKGIVING
HAPPY THANKSGIVINGIf I may, I have enjoyed cooking for all the years since I have left my parent’s home.Each year we have a Thanksgiving dinner at Wiggy’s that includes 30 plus people.Kok buys the largest turkey he can buy and carves it. I always ask him the keep all the bones for me. I take them home [...]
chemicals
FINALLY AN ADMISSION THAT CHEMICALS IN TEXTILES FOR CLOTHING IS NOT GOOD!!!Levi Strauss & Co. And Hohenstein Collaborate To Bring Safer Chemicals To The Apparel Industry Using ECO PASSPORT By OEKO-TEX®November 19, 2019SAN FRANCISCO/BOSTON — November 19, 2019 — Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&Co.) and Hohenstein today announced a collaboration to utilize the ECO PASSPORT by OEKO-TEX® certification system in [...]
virtue
“VIRTUE” IS THE ACTION BY WHICH ONE GAINS AND KEEPS A VALUEAYN RAND -Rationality as the Primary VirtueLAMILITE/CLIMASHIELD is a virtuous product.When you purchase a Wiggy product you have purchased a virtuous product.I have written endlessly about the Lamilite/Climashield product being the most efficient insulating material on the planet. I have written about its resilience based on [...]
A Fantastic Test by the Air Force
The following is a republished article about the Air Force going with Wiggy's.Arctic Survival Kit for Air Force F-35 Pilots Surprises Developers During Way-Below-Zero Trial 20 Nov 2019 Stars and Stripes | By James Bolinger A cold-weather survival kit under development at Eielson Air Force Base, Alaska, was designed to keep F-35A Lightning II pilots alive at -40°. Thanks [...]
they want to copy Wiggy's but fail
COPYING WIGGY’SMountain Hardwear a number of years ago decided to make “no sleep sleeping bags” and call them lamina. Why lamina because that was as close as they could get to Lamilite according to Paul Kramer the partner of the company at that time. He and his partner eventually sold out to Columbia Sportswear.They did start out with continuous filament [...]
lamilite/climashield simply the best
walshgang5 First off it makes my stomach turn seeing those bags burn, although I know it’s necessary to demonstrate. How on earth has the DoD not adopted these as the STANDARD. It demonstrates what a Bureaucratic mess they are. I own an Ultralight, Superlight and [...]
introduction to the video
sicilianeyeI have three different Wiggys' bags including the Ultima Thule and I think they're the greatest bags ever - and I use them in Alaska! I have to say I've never once given a thought to the flammability issue. I'm glad someone did. Hello Jerry, “...burning down makes a wonderful odor” ... LOL. A Wiggys Classic quotation, no doubt. A [...]
comments about the video
NON-COMBUSTIBLE SLEEPING BAG VIDEOToday I made the video which should be on my you tube channel also today.It is also very self-evident the findings. The only thing I thought about after the video was finished pertains to the down bag that burned. I do not know what the down fill power rating was for down used in the bag, but [...]
the fr test
ANOTHER TESTIMONIALHi Guys,Just got back from our annual whitetail camping trip and this year the temperature dipped into the low teens with gusty winds. Slept in my Hunter Ultima as usual this year wearing your fishnets and was perfectly fine (as usual).Yesterday it was in the single digits here in Illinois. As the sidewalks and trails are pretty much [...]
lamilite socks for the motor cyclist
ANOTHER MARKET FOR LAMILITE SOCKSThe other day one of my customers sent me a link to a web site that deals in motorcycle garments and one of the products shown; his reason for sending the link, was the most incredible socks that a motor cyclist could wear to keep his/her feet warm.They were nothing more than a over the calf [...]