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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 [...]
Articles About Staying Warm
The January / February 2010 issue of Mushing Magazine includes in the issue an article titled “The Physics and Physiology of Staying Warm”. The author is Rob Loveman. Below is the letter to the editor that I wrote expressing my disappointment that they would publish such an article. Actually I was not disappointed to read [...]
An Admission of Failure
As we all know when the U.S. government initiates a program it never functions as planned. Once the problems begin to show themselves modification are conjured up. The problem as I see it is those who started the program leave their position for one reason or another and they leave the person taking their place [...]
Insulting The Marines
About two years ago the US Army Natick Laboratory issued a solicitation for proposals for a new sleep system to include a sleeping bag and a bivi bag. At the time I read the specifications they wanted those making proposals to meet certain requirements, and I knew it could not be accomplished so I did [...]
Is It Possible For Them To Learn?
I received the following two emails from one a civilian and two from a SGT in the US Army.From:] Sent: Thursday, October 01, 2009 12:32 AMTo: wiggys@wiggys.comSubject: XXL 100 in. long Antarctic bagsDear Wiggy,In 2006 I and three others, including my son, ordered 4 XXL 100 in long Antarctic bags from you. We were [...]
Why President Obama Should be Proudest to be an American
The United States of America (USA) is 229 years old. England was started in 1066, I do not know how old Germany, Italy, France, the Scandinavian country’s are and many of the other countries of Europe eastern or western but I do know they have yet to elect a man or woman their president, chancellor [...]
August 2009-The Outdoor Retailer Trade Show
The Outdoor Retailer Trade Show is an exhibition of almost all companies that sell to outdoor retail, hunting or general camping stores. The attendees are from the hunting, climbing or general sporting goods stores. Wiggy’s has not attended as an exhibitor since the show has been in Salt Lake City, Utah. The reason I went [...]
European Normal
The European government has set a directive I guess for a standard procedure for the testing of sleeping bags. It is commonly referred too as EN 13537; EN translating to European Normal (what ever that is.) Essentially they are testing all sleeping bags sold in Europe on copper manikins. The purpose being that the consumer [...]
TO THINK OR NOT TO THINK
For all of the years that I have been making sleeping bags to this very day I am asked by someone who is going on an “expedition” or writing a review for a outdoor magazine if I will give them one of my sleeping bags to “test.” I always so no, but I’ll give them [...]
The Economy
All of the politicians whom we employ in Washington, D.C. have a belief that they have the answer; from the president on down. They do not; the answer to solving the economic down turn in our economy as well as the rest of the worlds is simple; it is called CAPITALISM. Ayn Rand wrote a [...]