They are the best of nights, they are the worst of nights… Bivvying offers a chance to experience a whole new level of immersion in the outdoors, with just a lightweight bag between you and the elements. The Book of the Bivvy provides an informed, humorous, instructive, wry insight into the world of the bivouac, drawing upon Ronald Turnbull’s own extensive experience. The book is a half-and-half mix of how to do it and why to do it (or how not to do it and why not to do it). Accounts of bivvybag nights and expeditions, both nice and nasty, are interspersed with practical tips about types of membrane, sites, techniques and minimalist kit. There are stories and anecdotes from all over the UK, plus a few from abroad. The rich and colourful history of the bivvy is also explored in Ronald’s own inimitable style, with descriptions of how Diogenes (the Cynic) bivvied under timber and how the Eigerwand was climbed only through improved bivvying technique. The Book of the Bivvy is a celebration of back-to-basic camping, the perfect antidote to our fast-paced, comfort-based modern life. Honest and entertaining, there is every chance it will inspire you to find a remote hilltop, roll out your bag and watch the sunset.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Map key1 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’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’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
Über den Autor
Ronald Turnbull was born in St Andrews, Scotland, into an energetic fellwalking family. His grandfather was a president of the Scottish Mountaineering Club, and a more remote ancestor was distinguished as only the second climbing fatality in Snowdonia. In 1995 Ronald won the Fell Running Association’s Long-distance Trophy for a non-stop run over all the 2000ft hills of Southern Scotland; his other proud achievements include the ascent of the north ridge of the Weisshorn and a sub-2hr Ben Nevis race. He enjoys multi-day treks, through the Highlands in particular, and has made 21 different coast-to-coast crossings of the UK. He has also slept out, in bivvy bag rather than tent, on over 80 UK summits. Outside the UK he likes hot, rocky areas of Europe, ideally with beaches and cheap aeroplanes. Recently he achieved California’s 220-mile John Muir Trail and East Lothian’s 45-mile John Muir Way in a single season, believing himself the first to have achieved this slightly perverse double. He has also started trying to understand the geology of what he’s been walking and climbing on for so long. Ronald lives in the Lowther Hills of Dumfriesshire, and most of his walking, and writing, takes place in the nearby Lake District and in the Scottish Highlands. His recent books include The Book of the Bivvy , and walking/scrambling guides Loch Lomond and the Trossachs , The Cairngorms and Ben Nevis & Glen Coe , as well as Three Peaks Ten Tors – a slightly squint-eyed look at various UK challenge walks. He has nine times won Outdoor Writers & Photographers Guild Awards for Excellence for his guidebooks, outdoor books (including Book of the Bivvy), and magazine articles. He has a regular column in Lakeland Walker and also writes in Trail , Cumbria and TGO (The Great Outdoors). His current, hopelessly ambitious, project is to avoid completing the Munros for at least another 20 years.Ebooks vom selben Autor / Herausgeber
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