The Book of the Bivvy - Techniques, Routes and Stories

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Reprinted

Cover

Paperback - Laminated

Published

25 Mar 2011

Edition

Second

ISBN

9781852845612

ISBN (10)

1852845619

Size

17.2 x 11.6 x 1.3cm

Weight

180g

Pages

144

No. Maps

No. Photos

Originally Published

19 Oct 2007

The Book of the Bivvy

by Ronald Turnbull

A guidebook on bivvybag skills and expeditions. Accounts of bivvybag nights and expeditions, both nice and nasty, alternate with practical chapters on lightweight kit. Finally a selection of bivvybag expeditions. Hilarious (and informative) reading! An updated second edition. More...

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Seasons

Any season.

Centres

Suggested bivvybag routes in the Lake District around Skiddaw, Bruce’s Crown in the Galloway Read More... Hills, a circuit of the Pennines between Settle and Hexham, and a crossing of Pumlumon Fawr between Church Stretton, Shropshire and Aberystwyth.

Difficulty

Suggested routes are mainly long, across hill-country.

Must See

The fun of ‘doing it’.

FOREWORD by Julian Miles

INTRODUCTION

1 BASIC BIVVY
    Peigne and suffering
    Problems of the polybag
    Plastic bag for pleasure purposes
    Polybag facts

2 BIVVY HISTORY

3 THE BREATHABLE BAG
    Five nights in green plastic
    1    Overnight Ochils
    2    Wet Wooler in November
    3    Hoover bag
    4    Man management
    5    Saddle bag
    Time, things and Miguel

4 MIDLEVEL BAGGERY
    Cave behaviour
    Fallback bag
    Shopping for bags

5 BUT WHAT IF IT RAINS?
    Wet under thorns in Belfast
    Further suffering
    What if it rains?
    Look after your bivvy and your bivvy will look after you
    The ideal site

6 ACROSS SCOTLAND BY BAG
    Wetness and weight
    Acharacle to Aberdeenshire

7 THE ART OF LIGHTWEIGHT LONG-DISTANCE
    Bag and baggage
    Comparative luxury
    The fuel on the hill
    Mountains under the moon

8 BAG PLANS
    1    Bivvybagging the Wainwrights
    2    Bag and camera
    3    Corbett bagging

9 BIVVYBAG ROUTES
    1    Sleeping on Skiddaw
    2    Bruce’s Crown

10 ANOTHER PENNINE JOURNEY
Re-enacting Wainwright on a walk to the Roman Wall

11 SUDDEN DEATH AND SHEEP-STEALING
A crossing of Pumlumon Fawr

AFTERWORD: SHELTERED HOUSING FOR THE ELDERLY

MANUFACTURERS AND SUPPLIERS

INDEX