No offense Chris, you seem to like thier gear and maybe actually know the guy who runs that shop, but a word of caution to anyone looking at Wiggy.

I've read a lot of reviews of thier gear, because of Chris' recommendation, and they fall into two categories. One is that the sun rises and sets by wiggy, which is the most common. Or that when they screw up, they screw up big, like 0 rated bags that people were cold testing at 40 degrees. No middle ground. Stuff like scares me- no one is that erratic unless they have a QC issue. And they seem to have more, percentage wise, negatives than a lot of other brands.

And EVERY negative review or evaluation that I've read that indicated that there was attempt to contract the manufacturer stated that customer concerns are apparently greeted with at best less than professional conduct, and often abuse. Even some of the POSSITVE reviews said that customer service was an unpleasant experince. One or two is one thing, a bad customer blowing steam, but the consistancy of that little factoid makes me think a little less highly of the company, if not thier gear.

The fact that thier newsletters, the archives of which I HAVE read on thier website, seem to usually have something in them that can be summed up as "the competators' products are crap, thier management is fools", et al, also concerns me. I had to laugh at one when he was going on about a fill that the rest of the industry uses, and oddly, those manufacturers are what the bigger expeditions that I see pictures of are using.

As I said, this based on others' experince, but it's enough to keep me from buying from this company. Don't take my word for it. Check out trailspace.com- I would also normally suggest outdoorreview.com and backpackgeartest.org, but it seems that thier Wiggy reviews that were there a couple years ago aren't there any more.