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The Economy (Is Not Coming Back)
Since I reduced my prices for sleeping bags by 30 percent many people have called inquiring how long the sale will last. I have told each and everyone who has asked that I will end the sale when the economy gets better. The universal response to my answer is always the same , a chuckle [...]
Sleeping Bag Weights and Temperature Rating
For as many years as I have been associated with the outdoor industry (starting 1961) when it came to sleeping bags the manufacturers were always striving for the lightest weight and most compactable sleeping bag per temperature rating that they could make. In the early years the insulation material of choice was down. There was [...]
Insulation
I have been selling insulation and/or insulated products for almost 50 years and I finally read the dictionary definition of insulation; “the action of insulating, the fact or condition of being insulated.” I believe these definitions are in complete. The definition does not say what exactly insulation is, i.e. that it actually is a material [...]
Global Warming Is A Joke!
Global warming is nothing more than governments trying to convince people that they will be taxed if they don’t conserve on their own. Governments are trying to fool the people and it is not working. Why (?) because the people are observing that global warming is not happening. Bloomberg news on their [...]
Global Warming and Global Cooling
Several months ago I recommended a book “THE COOLING; HAS THE NEXT ICE AGE BEGUN? CAN WE SURVIVE IT?” by Lowell Ponte, published by Prentice-Hall in 1976. I read the book in 1976 when I purchased it and again in 2009. My interest in climatic change was initiated when I received a photo copy of [...]
Government knows best?
Government knows nothing, it is the people employed by the government that are the “know-it-alls”. I read on the government web site that shows awarded contracts a 91 million dollar contract was awarded to a company to produce the “new” USMC sleeping bag and bivi bag system. February 2007 is when the government employees [...]
They are Just Despicable!
I have for several years written about companies that produce fiberfill insulations directed for use by manufacturers of sleeping bags or clothing specifically for products to be used by our men in uniform, i.e. soldiers whether they are members of the Army, Navy, Marines or Coast Guard. The manufacturers of the fiberfill embellish beyond their [...]
The Failed Sleeping Bag
For the past two years I have written about the desire on the part of the Marines to acquire a new sleeping bag since they have had several years to finally learn the bag they originally had, a bastardization of my two bag system hasn’t performed in the field as planned. The most recent article [...]
Scent-Lok Found Guilty Of False Advertising
SportsOneSource Media serves the outdoor industry reported on the web site www.SportsOneSource.com that {ALS Enterprises producer of Scent-Lok clothing had falsely claimed its products were based on “odor eliminating technology” or were “odor eliminating clothing.” Cabela’s and Gander Mountain, both of which sell Scent Lok and their own private-label clothing, were also found guilty of [...]
New Insulated Parka Liner for The USMC
About two months ago a request for information or sources sort notice appeared from Natick labs asking “industry” for a liner that will fit into the existing military sleeping system as well as a liner that will fit into the “new” Marine Corps sleep system. See the January 2010 article now archived. Now the [...]