This book provides an informed, instructive, and wry insight into the world of the bivouac, drawing upon the author's wealth of personal experience. It is a celebration of bivvying - back-to-basics camping with just a lightweight bag between you and the elements. Honest and entertaining, there is every chance it will inspire you to find a remote hilltop, roll out your bag, and watch the sunset.
Practical tips about different types of membranes, sites, techniques and minimalist kit A half-and-half mix of how to do it and why to do it (or how not to do it and why not to do it) Accounts of bivvybag nights and expeditions, both nice and nasty The rich and colourful history of the bivvy, including references from Classical Greece and the role of the bivvy in the first successful ascent of the Eigerwand Six routes for the aspiring bivouacker, in the Lake District, Scotland and the Spanish Sierra Nevada
By:
Ronald Turnbull
Imprint: Cicerone Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: 3rd Revised edition
Dimensions:
Height: 172mm,
Width: 116mm,
Spine: 11mm
Weight: 190g
ISBN: 9781786310781
ISBN 10: 1786310783
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 10 September 2021
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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
Ronald Turnbull writes regularly for TGO, Lakeland Walker, Trail and Cumbria magazines. His previous books include Across Scotland on Foot, Long Days in Lakeland and Welsh 3000ft Challenges. He has written many other Cicerone guides, including Walking in the Lowther Hills, The Book of the Bivvy and Not the West Highland Way.
