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Title: BLOG - Slieve Bearnagh Solo Bivvy Trip Report
Post by: RedLeader on March 02, 2011

I headed for Slieve Bearnagh last week for a first solo summit camp.

Part 1 of the gory details are here:
http://www.ni-wild.co.uk/blog/2011/02/solo-summit-bivvy-part-one/ (http://www.ni-wild.co.uk/blog/2011/02/solo-summit-bivvy-part-one/)

Title: Re: Slieve Bearnagh Solo Bivvy Trip Report
Post by: Matthew on March 02, 2011

Thats a great read J, good job.

Matthew

Title: Re: Slieve Bearnagh Solo Bivvy Trip Report
Post by: sjh1 on March 02, 2011

Great read, thanks.

Liked the Only Fools link and agree with you bout mobiles!

Re. solo woodland camping, I agree it can be spooky. I bivvied in Annalong Forest there in January and around dusk it was very Blair Witchy! But when it got really pitch black and I had a fire going it was actually pretty relaxing. I put my back to a rock and had an emergency bottle of Buckfast which I could either down or smash over an intruder's head in the case of emergency ;) (in the event I never even cracked it open).