The Book of the Bivvy - Techniques, Routes and Stories

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.

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