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Guest Contributor: Leslie Parker<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am a 36-year-old transplant to the mountains, having moved to Jasper from the Saskatchewan flatlands after college. Even though I have since moved into the city, I still spend my weekends skiing (XC, AT, and downhill), hiking, camping, and climbing in the Rocky Mountains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My favorite place to be is in a tent in the backcountry. Although, a nicely-heated hut isn’t bad in winter, either…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For the past few years, I’ve had one loyal companion on all my camping trips – a bright blue, down sleeping bag I’ve nicknamed “Big Blue.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout his lifetime, Big Blue has been strapped to insolent yaks, slogged through mud, rain, and snow, and even provided for some pretty sweet blanket forts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, all good things must come to an end, and one day, I noticed that ol’ Blue was starting to look his age…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My beloved “Big Blue” starting to look a little too well-loved…<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n

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The down feathers had formed into a lumpy blob that made for very warm feet, but not a very warm anything else. However, Blue received an 11th hour reprieve from the sleeping bag glue factory when I discovered Nikwax Down Wash Direct<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was worried that washing my bag, myself, might prove too difficult – the “dry clean only<\/em>” warnings had me slightly worried that my bag would come out of the washer looking more like a drowned cat than a fluffy eider duck.  After only a few minutes in the dryer (with the aid of a few borrowed tennis balls), the bag was happily rising like leavened dough.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After only a half-hour in my dryer, I had a fully functional sleeping bag yet again. Not only has my bag been re-fluffed, but it is now resistant to rain and snow<\/a> (which my trips tend to have in spades<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I must say Nikwax has rescued the bag from just about everything…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

…including animal waste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On a recent trip, a pack rat decided to crash our hut party, and left me a lovely “parting gift” on top of Big Blue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can now say that Nikwax is 100% effective against packrat poop.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, if Nikwax could just create a product to fix my backcountry hat head…<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Testimonial submitted by Leslie Parker, a mountain-loving and local-retail-store-supporting adventurer, from Alberta.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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