Tip for use of basic army bivi bag, as they are sooooo loooong, is to turn it upside down to give you a "roof" over your head.Have you seen this, some interesting thoughts and tips.
Tip for use of basic army bivi bag, as they are sooooo loooong, is to turn it upside down to give you a "roof" over your head.Have you seen this, some interesting thoughts and tips.
Bear in mind to be truly successful, IMO, in bivvy camping a tarp is really helpful. Especially the next morning sorting your admin out.
(6-month late reply but am enjoying reading through these excellent posts.)A bit of a tangent to this thread but hopefully there may be some answers. I've got an old surplus hooped bivvy with loads of room in the top, I can put by rucksack in there with room to spare. Has anyone had any experiances of sleeping with a dog in the top of the bivvy bag? We want to introduce our dog to camping but I think just an open bivvy and tarp may be a bit much for her just yet.
I've used Bivi's intermittently over the years. I found a Carinthia Observer on Ebay and I have to say it's second to none, breathability, waterproof, bombproof. The two different openings with midge netting is just excellent is the headroom. I was reminded though after waking up in the lashing rain on the Scottish West Coast a tarp is useful to get dressed under. That being said I did manage to stow all my kit in it's waterproof bags and get dressed, including my goretex whilst still in the bivi! The tarp does then add to the weight of the whole sleep kit.
It's not often I would take exception to something Erbswurst says , but the last sentence above I do!I doubt that hooped bivvy bags work as well as usual ones like the British army version. I talked pretty long to a man who works for Carinthia, which make the German army Goretex sleeping bag cover and the Observer from the most vapour permeable fabric that Goretex offers.
And this gentleman told me that you get sooner or later in their current bivvy bags a condensation problem if you breath into it. That means that the simple bag is the technical superior design if you want to sleep in it.
...Probably!!My point is that for example the British army bivvy bag enables to breath outside the bivvy bag while you are in it. Like this you avoid the condensation of the moisture of the air that you breath out inside your bivvy bag.
Is the air in Britain really so moist that it doesn't matter?
Surely the answer to this problem is to not zip everything up tight, leave some space for air to circulate a little?I doubt that hooped bivvy bags work as well as usual ones like the British army version. I talked pretty long to a man who works for Carinthia, which make the German army Goretex sleeping bag cover and the Observer from the most vapour permeable fabric that Goretex offers.
And this gentleman told me that you get sooner or later in their current bivvy bags a condensation problem if you breath into it. That means that the simple bag is the technical superior design if you want to sleep in it.
Depends on your bag, and the weather? Hooped bivis do allow that more so than the bag type in inclement weather. But you'll still get condensation!!Surely the answer to this problem is to not zip everything up tight, leave some space for air to circulate a little?
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