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Sleeping Bag Special!
Super Light Mummy Style Sleeping Bags on Sale for $150 Inventory at Wiggy’s is just getting started. I have noted that my inventory of purple material is much larger than I expected to find. Therefore, as of today all Purple Super Light Mummy Bags with the old (traditional) mummy foot or new boat foot design are $150.00 each. I suspect [...]
Effects of Poor Blood Circulation
DISEASES CAUSED BY POOR BLOOD CIRCULATION AND WHAT CAN BE DONE TO POTENTIALLY ALLEVIATE THE DISCOMFORTDefinitionBy Mayo Clinic StaffRaynaud's (ray-NOHZ) disease causes some areas of your body — such as your fingers and toes — to feel numb and cold in response to cold temperatures or stress. In Raynaud's disease, smaller arteries that supply blood to your skin narrow, limiting [...]
Word of Mouth Advertising
Just wanted to let you know that your sleeping bags are truly amazing and I know it is something you hear all the time, at least from people who have tried them out. It's one of those products that I can tell everyone I know to buy but they don't just get it from me telling them, they literally [...]
Live & Learn About Hammock Camping
I am acquiring an education with respect to hammock camping.When you hammock camp you do not have a tent to get into when it rains so as I am finding out some people live with being in the rain and some take some form of tarp. What I observed on the web sites of companies that sell tarps [...]
NEW PRODUCT » Hammock Sleeping Bag!
Below are three photos of the new Hammock Sleeping bag. It is a modified version of the Freedom Shelter sleeping bag. The foot end of the bag is open so the sleeping bag will fit around the hammock and when you pull the draw cord tight the end is closed and of course all of the [...]
Testing Wiggy's Products
Many years ago I owned a Dutch built steel hull sail boat. It was made for sailing the North Sea which I am told is not the smoothest place to sail, so I had an ocean going sail boat. I sailed it for 5 years in the north east, L.I. Sound, to Nantucket Sound and the Atlantic Ocean [...]
Hammock Sleeping Bag
A Testimonial...This has been my go to sleep system for winter hanging now for 3 years.I've done many nights below zero F and a few below -20F with an extra layer and the Sunwalkers on my feet for extra warmth.I tarp clip a small length of shock cord to the hood and foot ends of the bag and stretch [...]
More About Wool...
ANOTHER ASPECT OF WOOL TO BE AWARE OF!One of my customers upon reading the latest commentary wrote to me expressing his observation of what happens to wool garments he owns.The get heavy when wet and body heat never is adequate to dry the wool. These two points are excellent observations and while I was aware of them I [...]
Wool as an Insulation
A Resurrected Insulating Material: WoolWool has a reputation as an insulating material for several hundred years because even if it gets wet the wool fibers will not collapse the way cotton fibers do or as down does. Therefore since the bulk of the fiber remains basically constant the wool garment will retain some heat or have heat retention property.However, [...]
The Best Solo Camp Setup › The Freedom Shelter & Sleeping Bag
In about 1984, a fellow who had never served in the military living in military country, Virginia Beach, VA., created what I believe to this day is the best multi-purpose shelter and garment for soldiers that exists. Unfortunately the product just limped along until a retired Marine Corps Colonel purchased the company; Dick Haislip. Dick [...]