Bivouac sack, bivy, bivvy, bivi bags and bloody bivvying

Might be worth dropping Thermarest a line anyway? They might offer some sort of discount on a replacement?

Get a UL80 off Amazon £40, brilliant mat

Not a bad idea.

I tweeted them.

They're like 3x the weight and this was for a race as opposed to camping so I don't have a lot of space. It's ok, I've got another 2 smaller Thermarests and a full length Alpkit as well. Now I think I might take my chopped down Karimoor pad so I don't need to worry about inflation.

Usually what happens is I take all of them and then leave them at the hotel on race day and just say to myself "there's grass out there".

Actually, I've just rolled my other 3/4 Neoair into my Rab Alpine bivvy and it all still fits in its original stuffsack so that's a neat solution. I reckon I'll give this setup a go.

In races I don't normally take anything other then my ultralight bivvy but in this one I want to spend more time bivvying so I'm trying to increase the comfort a bit.

Sorry for the dredge - I'm looking for insulated bivi bag recommendations. I stupidly sold my excellent Berghaus Big Wall bivi to @Hamham (hint hint Hamish - sell it back to me please?!) and am now looking for something comparable, but can't immediately see anything similar on the market. Ideally something lined to such an extent I don't need to carry a seperate sleeping bag (which is what the big wall was able to do).

Ignore, thought was better than half price, confirmed even cheaper elsewhere still though

Really isn’t, though. GoOutdoors was selling it for about £40 for ages. Currently £45 there (“with members discount”).

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Excuse the motorbike not bicycle. Less than ultralight, 3x3m tarp, army bivi, down sleeping bag, inflatable sleep mat.

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Ah fuck'em then, I remove link.

Am selling this 'bivy' if anyone's interested

https://www.lfgss.com/conversations/378401/#comment16629092

Failed to update this thread with any photos, crossposting from the motorbike thread.

A week or so ago. My incredibly tall mate in @cake ’s old RAB, and me in a weird diagonally-zipped old old lightweight bivi bag.

Mine’s around 700g? -ish with a DIY bug net that velcro’s into the storm flap. Worked fine.

Definitely not a great sleep on the foam mat, but not as bad as assumed.

DIY tarps from thin ripstop, one each as a footprint and one over the top of us to limit dew.

Going out again tomorrow or the day after so need to be prepared for serious rainfall.

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Looks a decent setup! Where did you get the tarp material from?

It’s ripstop nylon, not totally waterproof like a true tarp, but should be enough to reduce the risk of waking up drenched. The material came from a local overstock type place. Only available as and when they get some.

if you have a tarp, you don't need the bivvy! get yaself out that coffin

I know I know. It’s way too belts-n-braces.

Bivi’s for me, tarp’s for the kit and clothing. That’s my line I’m sticking to.

embrace the #tarplife with both arms stretched out

Insects wanna bite the shit out of me… so… maybe.

that can normally be solved with selecting a better campsite; if not, a big bugnet works too.

Try that shit in Scotland!

Friday morning.

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Respeck!

Big coat weather!

😎

Fook.