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CONTENTS

FOREWORD by Julian Miles

INTRODUCTION

1 BASIC BIVVY

Peigne and suffering

Problems of the polybag

Plastic bag for pleasure purposes

Polybag facts

2 BIVVY HISTORY

3 THE BREATHABLE BAG

Five nights in green plastic

1 Overnight Ochils

2 Wet Wooler in November

3 Hoover bag

4 Man management

5 Saddle bag

Time, things and Miguel

4 MIDLEVEL BAGGERY

Cave behaviour

Fallback bag

Shopping for bags

5 BUT WHAT IF IT RAINS?

Wet under thorns in Belfast

Further suffering

What if it rains?

Look after your bivvy and your bivvy will look after you

The ideal site

6 ACROSS SCOTLAND BY BAG

Wetness and weight

Acharacle to Aberdeenshire

7 THE ART OF LIGHTWEIGHT LONG-DISTANCE

Bag and baggage

Comparative luxury

The fuel on the hill

Mountains under the moon

8 BAG PLANS

1 Bivvybagging the Wainwrights

2 Bag and camera

3 Corbett bagging

9 BIVVYBAG ROUTES

1 Sleeping on Skiddaw

2 Bruce’s Crown

10 ANOTHER PENNINE JOURNEY

Re-enacting Wainwright on a walk to the Roman Wall

11 SUDDEN DEATH AND SHEEP STEALING

A crossing of Pumlumon Fawr

AFTERWORD: SHELTERED HOUSING FOR THE ELDERLY

MANUFACTURERS AND SUPPLIERS

AFTERWORD TO THE REPRINT