Bivvy bag

BraveDonut

Anyone know where I can pick up a cheap bivvy bag? My son is going camping with the scouts this weekend.

Thanks

Donny5

BraveDonut wrote: »

Anyone know where I can pick up a cheap bivvy bag? My son is going camping with the scouts this weekend.

Thanks

I don't know where you'd get one cheap before the weekend, to be honest. Where are you based? Does he really need a bivvy bag for the scouts? Would one of those orange emergency bags do the trick, if it's just for a night or two?

BraveDonut

Not really sure - It was on the list of things that the scouts said that he needs to bring. Its just for two nights.
Someone just explained to me that it is actually just a big, bright plastic bag!
I now think that he will be okay without it.

Thanks

fenris

The bivvy bag is normally used to sleep in, keep the wind off and stop his sleeping bag getting soaked, so you may need to spring for some sort of bag, especially now that people tend not to leave those heavy fertilizer bags lying about. (I know that you shouldn't use them but when cold and wet in the eighties they were great - twitch, twitch)

Donny5

BraveDonut wrote: »

Not really sure - It was on the list of things that the scouts said that he needs to bring. Its just for two nights.
Someone just explained to me that it is actually just a big, bright plastic bag!
I now think that he will be okay without it.

Thanks

The big bright plastic bags (usually called emergency bivvis) can be bought for less than a €10 in pretty much any outdoor shop, if you're near one.

Esel

Maybe they mean he should have a survival bag? That's the orange plastic bag mentioned above.

DonLimon

Has anyone actually used a bivvy bag? I've always liked the simplicity of it but have been concerned about rats and such.

Esel

I have bivvied in a survival bag, with just a sleeping bag, and with no bag at all.

Tbh, rats are not going to be a problem, unless you leave food lying around. Unless you have food inside your bivvy bag, they won't try to get inside.

Be more concerned about midges. Get one with a mesh screen to keep them out.

DonLimon

Esel wrote: »

I have bivvied in a survival bag, and with no bag (no sleeping bag either).

Tbh, rats are not going to be a problem, unless you leave food lying around. Unless you have food inside your bivvy bag, they won't try to get inside.

Be more concerned about midges. Get one with a mesh screen to keep them out.

Thanks, I'll look into it more

martinedwards

I was given a goretex bivi bag by a mate.

I've used it several times, in the summer, and once in deep winter with a hard frost and 4" of snow overnight.

it had a drawstring at the top and I sealed it right up, no gaps.

keep out of the wind and you'll be toasty!