Earn Friendship Points by visiting regions, doing Friendship Acts or by watching videos! Watch a videoVisit a regionDo a Friendship Day ActivityI’m Alastair, an adventurer and author. I invented the phrase #Microadventure and I’ve been shouting about it for a few years. You can follow the microadventures people are doing on social media here or say hello to me here. This post will teach you everything about bivvy bags ready for your microadventure. If you’re looking for microadventure ideas try the Year of Microadventure Challenge, watch a few videos of my microadventures or -best of all- buy a signed copy of the best-selling Microadventures book! Would you like to receive occasional updates about microadventure news, events and plans? Traditionally, when heading off into the outdoors you would arm yourself with a tent. For overnight microadventures, however, I encourage people to try using a bivvy bag instead. If it rains you will have a less pleasant night than if you were in a tent / 5 star hotel.
(Taking a basha will help a lot though.) Even the best bivvy bags leave some condensation on your sleeping bag. For a single-night trip this is no problem, but for extended use you need to be able to hang your sleeping bag up to dry occasionally. If you are confident that the weather is going to be warm and dry then you don’t need one at all. I’ve slept like this on many, many nights. If you are in the UK there is usually a risk of rain. The cheapest way to stay dry is with one of these orange survival bags. They are a handy thing to own anyway if you are heading into the hills. The chief disadvantage of these is that you will realise in the morning how much vapour your body gives off in a night! Your sleeping bag will be quite damp. But for a single night microadventure they are absolutely fine. And they only cost about £5. A step-up from the orange bin bag option is this breathable bivvy bag for £17. The British Army’s bivvy bags are good too. They are GoreTex, a discreet green and enormous (a good and bad point).
Buy one here for about £40. If you think you will use your bivvy bag regularly, for multiple nights, or if you are going to bivvy in more difficult conditions, here are a couple of really good breathable bivvy bags: The picture below shows an Army bivvy on the left, a Rab one in the middle and a snoring Welshman in an unknown bivvy on the right. I hope this all helps. Contact me if you need any more help (after checking this first, of course!). If the weather is nice I cannot over-state how cool bivvying is… If it’s not nice, then a basha means you’ll still have fun. I really recommend a basha if the weather is a bit dodgy! If you do head off on a microadventure, please let me know. Tag it on Twitter with the hashtag #microadventure or pop something on the new Microadventures Facebook Page. If you’d like to come on a microadventure with me sign up here. If you have any friends who could benefit from a microadventure, please send them this link.
If you’re looking for microadventure ideas try the Year of Microadventure Challenge, watch a few videos of my microadventures or -best of all- buy a signed copy of the best-selling Microadventures book! I’ve been working hard to encourage people to get out and try a microadventure. Microadventures are a refresh button for busy lives. But I’m very aware that the hardest thing is getting out there for the first time. So I have produced a few infographics which hopefully will serve to give people the prod necessary to take that first step. (Thank you, Andrea, for all your hard work!) Click on the image you prefer to open a PDF file that you can then download and keep (Right Click, Save) or share the link with any friends who need a gentle kick up the backside to get out there and do stuff! A lot of the text on the PDF infographic is clickable, leading you to relevant web entries. Please feel free to use, distribute, print, put on your Facebook page, edit or hack as much as you wish.
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