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Thanks for all your help, I will be calling you and placing an order in the next few weeks, if I cannot make a plan to come out to grand junction and order in person. Look what I found (pics attached) A 22 year old Ultima Thule, still vacuum packed! I can't wait to open it and see how it recovers to full loft after 22 + years...Perhaps I will make a You tube video of it! .....thanks again for all your help and great products... Quick little story...I trained Boy Scout leaders for years, in outdoor skills. One of my favorite demonstrations was to bring my Super Light XLWB (my first and most used Wiggy's bag) to the training session, sealed in a bucket of water. I would pull it out at my introduction, usually Friday night at 5 or 6pm and tell the trainees that I would be sleeping in it this evening. I would hang it on a hook or over a rafter in the shelter and water would be running out like a waterfall! We did trainings in the spring and in autumn, so the low temps in Wisconsin would vary from 50's to as low as 20's or sometimes even in the teens... It would be 10:30 or 11pm before it was bed time and I would get my Wiggy's bag, sometimes still damp, sometimes it even had ice on it that I would knock off and head to bed. Let me say there were more than a few people concerned that I would freeze to death, but I always slept warm and comfy. The point was that many people here in Wisconsin still think that Goose Down bags and wool coats are how to stay warm. Worse yet were the ones, who blindly followed the marketing hype of such things as Goretex, Thinsulate, etc. etc... Years ago, when Cabelas was selling your bags, I would buy any that were in their "Bargain Cave" or clearance...any Wiggy's bag under $100 went home to my house and I probably owned 15 or 20 at one time. I would take a half dozen or more, to any Scout camp out for emergency use, kids (or adults) with useless bags incapable of keeping them warm and safe or after a hard rain and unprepared Scouts with soaked bags, unexpected cold snap, things of that nature. As my health failed, I gave quite a few bags away to scouts from poor families that couldn't afford decent equipment and later I gave most of the rest away to homeless people on the streets of Milwaukee and Madison, WI. I feel a special connection to you, your products and what you stand for. I grew up near Milwaukee WI. and when I was growing up, men/fathers I knew went into factories, machine shops and built things...the things that made America great, now most of those factories are silent, no smoke billowing out their smoke stacks, no parking lots full of cars driven by hard working, skilled men and women and no products rolling out the door. Most are now empty and boarded up or warehouses, factories no longer needed as nearly everything we buy today, is made in China. I respect the good, hard working people from China who are making the products that keep the world running but the state of affairs in this country is pathetic. I have a collection of classic American made guns, American made heavy industrial wood working machines and even old American made sewing machines, all from "the good old days" when America actually made things! You my friend are one of the rare exceptions: A man and a factory, making quality products, right here in the good ole USA.....

Dane/Hans (Hans is my real name taken from my great great grandfather from Denmark)

The bag Hans is in position of was made for a company that introduced my vacuum packing services to the Air Force. There was one partner who I found quite disagreeable since he was not averse to screwing the military so I went my own way. The company that this person started has long since gone by the wayside so we taxpayers can’t get screwed at least by him.

I fully expect that Hans will observe a bag that comes back about 75 percent but from experience will perform 100 percent.

Hans has become the latest person to share with me his experience with a wet Wiggy’s bag. I believe there are thousands that have had the same experience because as we know when camping water is always present. But as we have also learned the Wiggy’s bags when wet always perform as they do when they are dry.

Hans observation about the change that has taken place in the USA with respect to our change from a manufacturing base to a non-manufacturing base is unfortunate. Will that change any time soon, my opinion is no.

However Wiggy’s will continue to produce in the USA in Grand Junction, CO since I would have to give my knowledge to say the Chinese if I wanted to produce over there. That said it will never happen.

Thank you Hans for your support.