The Book of the Bivvy

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 and #039;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 and #039;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