I bought this sleeping bag from Sears in 1967. It still has the label showing the Ted Williams brand. Who would have thought that it would have lasted this long, but it’s still very usable.

The temperature rating is no where to be found, but I remember carefully selecting for Montana in the winter.

I got it for a trip to see my girl friend who was teaching on the Rocky Boy Indian Reservation near Havre Montana. The trip was around 2000 miles in December of 1967 and started in Knoxville, TN.

I left Knoxville about 10 AM and went to sleep in that sleeping bag for the first time near St. Joseph, MO. I had built a little camper shell on the back of my pickup and slept in there. It was comfortable sleeping, but when I got up my fingers nearly froze just getting form the back of the truck to the front.

Me and the girl friend married and are living happily near our 10 grand children. If that sleeping bag had failed and I had frozen to death it sure would have changed the future.