There’s glamping, there’s camping and there’s bivvying. One step up from cowboy camping (that is sleeping in the wild), a bivouac or bivvy is the most basic outdoor living set-up, favoured by extreme ...

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Serious campers, hikers and long-distance athletes know that one of the best ways to stay fit and healthy as you move through the wilderness is by getting a good night’s sleep. A bivy sack (“bivy” is ...

A couple of decades ago, choosing between a one-person tent and a bivy sack was pretty easy. The differences between the two types of solo shelters were more extreme than they are now. Early bivy ...