Loading... Please wait...This is in preparation for the full-scale reopening of our manufacturing facility here in Grand Junction, CO. Our purpose is to provide you with the warmest and most durable outdoor products on the market. We will continue to produce many of the items you have come to know and love and also plan to bring new products to market. We genuinely appreciate all of our past customers, and we hope to serve you for many years to come. We will continue to update you in the weeks ahead as we move towards “REOPENING” and the beginning of a new era here at Wiggy's.
Sincerely,
New Wiggy's Ownership.
AND THE BEAT GOES ONGORE-TEX® ACTIVE PRODUCTS with NEW SHAKEDRY™ Product TechnologyDurable water repellent surfaceTHESE PEOPLE HAVE A GALL THAT WILL NEED TO BE BEATEN TO DEATH WHEN THEY DIE!They contradict themselves at every turn. Above they claim durable water repellent, further down you will read that the material is waterproof. It is not unusual for gore to contradict themselves. The [...]
MOISTURE MANAGEMENT LIKE NO OTHER? OR GOING FROM THE REDICULOUS TO THE SUBLIME!Last week I saw an article in the Specialty Fabrics Review about a company unknown to me that is capable (in their minds) to produce fibers that will do a multitude of things. I called them and spoke with the founder and ceo of the company; David Gray. [...]
THERMIUMThermium is not a known word that I could find in a dictionary. However thermium is a fabric composite made and sold by gore.While following the progress of Ben Saunders walk or skiing across Antarctica a person asked him about the sleeping bag he was using. It is a bag made by a British company Mountain Equipment (ME), [...]
WIGGY’S BAG SAVE ANOTHER LIFE“(W)hen you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing; when you see that money is flowing to those who deal not in goods, but in favors; when you see that men get rich more easily by graft than by work, and your laws no longer protect you [...]
WHAT SOME PEOPLE WILL DO TO KEEP FROM WORKINGProfessional explorers are a people who chose to beg for support from companies that believe they need them to promote the products they make. Some of these activities cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Who gets the benefit from these explorations, only the explorer as far as I am concerned! The [...]
THE DANGERS OF AEROGELThe following e mail was received on Friday evening from a customer who obviously knows quite a bit about the aerogel product.Hello again, I was just catching up on email I missed and noticed your news and commentary on Aerogel. You were told correctly about that stuff absorbing oil. I have several blocks of it. It's the same variety [...]
Why Readers Had Us Googling Fishnet UnderwearBy Andy Snyder | November 8, 2017Hmmm… are we looking at Manward’s first-ever endorsement opportunity?After digging through the mailbag this week, we’re seeing the same company and its unique products mentioned throughout.While we’ll remain fiercely independent, we will share some of the tips and tricks readers have sent us over the last few days… including [...]
ANOTHER USE FOR LAMILITE SOCKSWiggy,My son and I took your products into Quetico, the Canadian wilderness park during the last 2 weeks of September.During travel days we portaged and pulled over beaver dams 4 to 10 times per day, meaning being ankle to waste deep in water as we loaded and unloaded canoes. We used your Lamilite socks with jungle [...]
FOLLOW UP TO ICE IN DOWN SLEEPING BAGSJerry, there’s good informational blog on down and some synthetic bags getting soaked and freezing dated 2005 that mentions your name as an answer to the problem. These winter backpackers are discussing the problems of ice formation in their down bags.Somebody mentioned a 700 fill down will absorb more moisture than [...]
THE TRUTH ABOUT MEASURING DOWNOne of my customers sent me a link to a page of the bean online catalog that shows down filled garments that according to the published information those garments contain 850 fill down. What exactly does it mean that the garment has 850 fill down?Make a plexiglas box that is 12 x 12 x [...]