CONTENTS
Map key
1 Introduction
Bag for life
Bivvy night 1: Snowdon
2 Primitive bivvy
Bivvy night 2: Peigne and suffering
Problems of the polybag
Plastic bag for pleasure purposes
Polybag facts
3 Bivvy history
Rude people enquire into futurity
Nights on the Eiger
Bivvy night 3: A walk on the Wye side
Mr Brown’s little green bag
4 Midlevel baggery
Bivvy night 4: Fast asleep on the Berwickshire coast
Cave behaviour
Bivvy night 5: A bedroom in Borrowdale
Fallback bag
Bag and camera
Bivvy night 6: Man management
Bag shopping
Poncho, basha, tarp – and the groovy group shelter
5 Time, things and Miguel
Time
Things
Miguel
6 Sleeping on summits
Bivvy night 7: Great Gable
Walking on the wet side
7 The comfort zone
Bivvy night 8: Up Base Brown in down
Sleeping mats
Dew process
Route 1: Merrick two-day trip
8 But what if it rains?
Bivvy night 9: Wet under thorns in Belfast
Further suffering
What if it rains?
Look after your bivvy and your bivvy will look after you
9 Across Scotland by bag
Wetness and weight: cross-Scotland constraints
Route 2: Acharacle to Aberdeenshire
10 The art of lightweight long-distance
Bag and baggage
The fuel on the hill
Fast food
High cuisine
Bivvy night 10: A peat-hole on Bowland
The importance of water
11 Mountains under the moon
Route 3: Coleridge’s Helvellyn overnight crossing
12 Bivvybag routes
Route 4: Lakeland all the way
Route 5: Rannoch Moor: the beauty and the bog
Bivvy night 11: Helm Crag
13 But that was in another country
Foreign parts
Route 6: Sierra Nevada: the Spanish 3000s
Bivvy night 12: Cima Cadin
14 And in the end
Sheltered housing for the elderly
Appendix A Suppliers