Northern Ireland Outdoors Forum - Hiking, camping and more
General => Meets, places, trips and reviews => Topic started by: Scribble on December 17, 2010
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done a quick bivvi last night and frank from Bloody Bridge campsite let me park at his house for a small fee, was planning on staying the night at mourne wall but chickened out due to the strong gusts and the fact i knew the snow was on its way,i set up camp at the quarry and climbed into my bivvi bag and got ready .
i will try and add somemore info laters like how i was well impressed with my alpkit headtorch (cheers suspectmonkey) and played with the green and red lights as i walked in snow
some photos here http://www.flickr.com/photos/dougiewilson/sets/72157625618030992/
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Cool - nicely done.
I'm going for a back-garden bivi tonight to test my new sleeping bag. It should hit its limit so will be a good test!
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Looks awesome, very jealous. Haven't had a proper snow bivvy yet.
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Nice.
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Fair play mate looks cool.
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Nice one Andy, looks like a pretty awesome bivvy, respect for heading up!
How did you find the sleep mat? I see you had it under the bivvy in one of your photos, did you sleep with it like that? If you are using the standard Alpkit Hunka bivvy I don't think it will fit inside, although it might fit in the Hunka XL. Mind you, I've discovered that I just can't sleep inside a bivvy with the mat on the inside. Feel far too restricted, so prefer to sleep with the mat on the outside.
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Hi suspect ;D I used the mat underneath as I used Dowsers idea and put a tescos mummy sleeping bag inside my vango supernova 3000 for extra warmth which I think I could of done with out as I had to strip off my top layers as I was too warm , I was super cautious and went and bought an outwell foam mat to put under the alpkit mat which again I reckon I could of done with out as I never felt the cold and I was really pleased at how comfy I was so much so I was a sleep before 11 , my bivvi I used was a Rab ranger and I was taught a very good lesson shake before opening as I got a face full off snow that also soaked my bag so I decided to pack up and head home about 4 , I think this was a sign from above as it took me 2hrs to get home to banbridge as the roads where a nightmare , I was very happy with mat but the headtorch kept me entertained with it's green and red beam in the snow , if your having another clearout pm me as I am sure I won't be disappointed ;D thanks again
Andy
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Definitely the comfiest sleep I've had has been on a self inflating mat on a foam mat. Definitely worth the few hundred extra grams.
Was the snow not really deep on the walk back down considering how much fell at sea level?
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this is me taking off my hat to you sir ;D
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Cheers Lenny :)
Redleader the snow was not too bad but trying to drive home I was hitting drifts but thankfully the hedges kept me going in the tight direction