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another person observation about gore-tex
WHY I AM HARD ON GORE-TEX, THE KING OF HYPE by ANDREW SKURKAAndrew Skurka has a web site where he offers advice on everything backpacking, some right and some wrong but he is very correct about waterproof/ breathable entities and of course concentrates mostly on exposing the fraud of Gore-Tex. What follows are a number of his comments [...]
the most inportant article of clothing
THE MOST IMPORTANT ARTICLE OF CLOTHING YOU CAN WEARI wrote years ago that the most important item you take into the field is a sleeping bag. If it is a Wiggy bag all the better! You can have all the food in the world but once you are cold it is necessary to have the sleeping bag. However [...]
this company has balls
THIS COMPANY HAS BALLSBelow is a photo of a section cut out of a North Face jacket called a THERMOBALL FULL JACKET? A friend spent the money about $199.00 for it to cut it open so he could send me a sample of the material so I could tell him about the insulation in it. To call the Thermoballs [...]
this is my story of getting lost in a blizzard
MY EXPERIENCE GETTING LOSTThe year was November 1995 when I got lost while hunting here in Colorado. I wrote up the story because my friend and guide Rudy Rudibaugh told me when we left the mountain that people do not live through what I had just experienced so I should write it up. I said okay but you [...]
what to wear when it is cold
COOLING AND WARMING THE HUMAN BODY AND WHAT IS THE BEST CLOTHING TO WEARThe human body is approximately 65 percent water. The human body contains about 3 trillion pores. The human body contains about 4 million sweat glands, that would be about 600 in a space the size of a quarter.The human body is always exhausting moisture in [...]
how to keep your feet warm
FOLLOW UP TO NEVER ENDING COLD FEET AND HOW TO END THE CYCLEJerry:This info email is right on target center of the 10.As a younger man, military and as civilian, I have had feet and hands so cold that knowing I had toes and fingers required my looking at each one to see if they were indeed there. Yes, those [...]
why you have cold feet
NEVER ENDING COLD FEETEinstein is credited with saying, and I quote; “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result is insanity”.For the past 30 years I have never spoken with men either face to face, on the telephone or via e mail, who have not had cold feet when they were wearing boots that [...]
the suggestion of an insulation
W.L. GORE MAYBE BACK PEDDLINGEach day I receive an online magazine published by SBG or sporting goods business with articles about the goings on in the outdoor industry. Today October 28 had a most interesting article titled “W.L. Gore Launches New Insulation Technology for Fall ‘16”.As you can imagine when I read “new insulation” I was intrigued, however there [...]
another testimonial
THEY JUST KEEP COMINGThank you for keeping me dry!Dear Mr. Wigutow, I am your typical "weekend warrior" dad, 48 years old, working hard to put two girls through college and maintain some balance in my life. Part of that "balance" is getting into the woods of Pennsylvania whenever I have some free time. Turns out one of those times was [...]
another wonderful testimonial
A NEW TESTIMONIALThe testimonial from Sunday October 11 spurred a new one which I am also grateful to have received. “Absolutely Awesome story, I have had your Ultimate Thule with Over bag for over 12 years. Used in Alaska and Denali Base camp. Been to Mt. Everest base camp. Used in the desert with outer bag. I have used [...]