Just re-watching your videos for inspiration and comfort. The previous comment from 'Helen' was from a combined channel with my lovely partner Emma. Sadly she is no more...on 10th May she suffered a total cardiac arrest and died in my arms. So....needing inspiration and to be honest some comfort from the familiar, so re-watching your vids. Just keep on as you are....so inspiring...thank you for sharing your time out. Helen.
Ah I’m so sorry to hear this. I had missed yous commenting. I hope the wide open spaces give you some peace and comfort and if I can play a very small part, I’m glad. Take care.
Adrian, this video is just perfect , great content and editing. I watched the last video twice . I finally think I have seen a better way of camping out with minimal fuss. Showing us the gear you use is priceless, it’s so useful.
Hi and thanks for coming along again, this tarp is the dd s 2.8x1.5 so a bit better than the magic carpet at 140x 140 it just gives enough room to change if it’s raining, I much prefer a small tarp as it’s quicker and can pitch nice and tight in the wind, bonus is not so much wet material to carry out !! You see so much as well, Cheers
Hi and thanks, cold camps are great it’s just keeping warm as once cold that’s it ,unpleasant, find the bivy better than a tent as it makes you get in the bag, Cheers Adrian
Hi and welcome, it’s always interesting when you get a new sub, as I click on the channel to view any video content, you have some I will watch so I will sub you, I was a keen Barbel fisherman 1984 to 2000 having fished the lower Severn and the river Teme Now up north it’s the outdoors Cheer’s happy Christmas Adrian
Nothing beats a bivy camp in the frost. Cracking bit of woodland. I was a bit worried when i saw the foil mat under the bivy but then you said you had your xped mat in your bivy and I was relieved... that would have been a bitter night without it. I'm also no fan of sleeping in my clothes. I didn't think that sleeping bag would of been OK tbh, but like you said it's all experimental with the kit and you have to try these things otherwise how would you know for sure. Great camp and you're never too old to play in the woods. And Merry Christmas Ade👍✌️👌👊💥
Hi Gez that 400 bag was certainly not up to the job but was ok when I used the down jacket, it was a bit of a trial, testing what I need to carry, as unlike your good self I want a light carry, but I will stick to taking thermals as coats are to restrictive in the bag, I am only using the foam mat to prevent punctures in my bivy bags while in woods, on the hill tops I would just have the bivy in the floor Cheers Adrian
Hi and welcome, lol don’t know about that, as when out of the sleeping bag it’s hard on your feet and hands, but I just love the openness of a bivy Cheers
Hi and hello, do you use the tarp the same way. ? I have just gone to this little tarp, as I was using just the magic carpet to cover my head end on my light camps, but this gives me space to change etc, I use the bigger tarp when I have too, same as a tent, next time it’s the big sleeping bag as I pushed it on this one, as for the stove it’s useless in the cold, my two don’t have regulators on them so I need an upgrade. Cheers and enjoy the tarp and bivy camping
@@northumberlandmountainhopper depends on weather conditions which way I have it lean to or apex.. Sleeping bag i use syn ones my winter one is like a bouncing bomb (takes up my pack lol) Stove I like to used alcohol ones, yes they take longer but are quiet.. I use a fancy feast or the none spill stoves which are good.. Atb Daz
Hi Simon, really enjoy a crisp walk around the woods before bed and in the morning, I was just warm enough, but did not enjoy sleeping in the jacket,much prefer thermals so it’s the big bag next time,little tarp proving good. Cheers Adrian
Good job I got all summer to try me kit out. Does temperature make a bivvi bag more or less prone to condensation? Another beautiful location and video, great job.
Hi and thanks for watching, personally I think and I only suffer from condensation when it’s really damp summer or winter, I have had many dry cold camps, it’s just where the heat transfer occurs. Cheers
hey mate, great setup. Have you thought about using a fleece liner to boost the temperature rating one the 400? I use the sea to summit one and its brilliant. Hardy
Hi and thanks for popping by, I will check how heavy a thick liner is as the bag with liner may approach the weight of the ascent 1900gr ? I have a silk one but I am not keen as I get tangled up in the night, my bags are also 230cm x/l and preferably I like the sizes to all match, thanks for the suggestion I will check a fleece one out. Cheers Adrian
I'm enjoying your videos. You might want to try that experiment again, but this time removing your down jacket and placing it as an extra covering over your sleeping bag. It works better. Also, any spare clothing, place in the bottom of the bivi bag to reduce the amount of air that needs heating up. Enjoyed it. Thank you
@northumberlandmountainhopper Do you know, that's never occurred to me, though the British army bivi bag doesn't suffer badly with condensation, especially if in a little breeze. The down jacket over the sleeping bag works well, though I've never had need to do it while in a bivi bag. Thanks. Every day is a school day.
Hello there. Is that foam mat one of the £15-20 ones with reflective coating on AMZ? When you said the ground was still frozen underneath you, I thought that was a good sign. I have just bought a bivy and am looking around for ideas. Subbed.
Hi and thanks for coming along, yes it was that cold it was still frozen, it’s an Alpkit foam mat and does the job well Good look with the bivy you can’t beat them Cheers
Here in the PNW (Seattle), where the winters are wet. It can feel even colder with a little drop in temp to the mid 30’s F (-1C), It can feel especially cold with the higher moisture content here. Which is probably similar to your area over there. Working construction in the 80’s I had learned to use a vitamin to help my body give me a little boost in heat. I would take niacin and break it in half and take it through the morning till I could get my feet warmed up. After they got warmed up with the niacin then my activity would get the blood flowing. Niacin (they say) disclaimer! Opens up the capillaries in our cardiovascular system. So I basically was getting a head start with the niacin. But take to much of it I would get really hot and then felt colder through the day, like a match flaming up and out. So I learned, less is more, and as time went on my system took the cold better.
Looks like a great night out, you won't beat the NeoAir XTherm pad for v cold winter camping, a new quiet one comes out soon, but these are great for keeping you warm with lighter gear so wonder if it would work for you and the lighter bag? We run our get home bags with these and Hyperion -6 bags as they are light, with a bivvy over the top. Might be worth a look if you want warmth but not the weight?
Hi and thanks for the input, I will check some specs out, happy with the sleeping bags, but will look at the mat for choices when these fail or I can treat myself ! I could save weight by having a normal size mat but I enjoy the wide mat. Cheers
I struggle to understand the point of camping this way in winter. You can buy a more robust, better weather protection, warmer, and no heavier tent. If you’re going to use a bivi why not at least use a tarp that gives total cover. Try putting chemical hand warmers in your boots overnight and plug them with something to reduce heat loss (I use my thermal mattress stuff sack). If you use a Nalgene bottle, fill it with hot water and use it as a hot water bottle - it also means you have liquid water in the morning and not a block of ice.
Hi and welcome, each to their own, this is a new little tarp set up I am trialling for use on long hikes/climbs, In fact my favourite set up was the little magic carpet, but changed to this so I could get changed in the rain, I also enjoy having minimal cover as I am more part of where I am, as for the boots yes a warmer is a good idea, but if it’s really cold I put them in the bivy, in a bag. As for weight I have a tent that weighs 1.3kg but prefer a bivy camp, Thanks for the input and hopefully see you again. Cheers
Just re-watching your videos for inspiration and comfort. The previous comment from 'Helen' was from a combined channel with my lovely partner Emma. Sadly she is no more...on 10th May she suffered a total cardiac arrest and died in my arms. So....needing inspiration and to be honest some comfort from the familiar, so re-watching your vids. Just keep on as you are....so inspiring...thank you for sharing your time out. Helen.
Ah I’m so sorry to hear this. I had missed yous commenting. I hope the wide open spaces give you some peace and comfort and if I can play a very small part, I’m glad. Take care.
Another cracking camp ...I'm getting thru the vids slowly but surely cheers mate !
Hi and thanks for watching, glad you like them, some poor ones early on I feel, but it’s showing my progression with the tarp and bivy
Cheers Adrian
Looked a nice spot that mate freezing cold one 🥶 🏕 👍
Hi and yes freezing cold, but I still enjoyed it, just like being out there.
Woodland looks great with that heavy frost on it, nice camp mate 👍
Hi and thanks for watching, it was lovely walking through the frosty wood
Cheers
Adrian, this video is just perfect , great content and editing. I watched the last video twice . I finally think I have seen a better way of camping out with minimal fuss. Showing us the gear you use is priceless, it’s so useful.
Hi and thanks for coming along again, this tarp is the dd s 2.8x1.5 so a bit better than the magic carpet at 140x 140 it just gives enough room to change if it’s raining, I much prefer a small tarp as it’s quicker and can pitch nice and tight in the wind, bonus is not so much wet material to carry out !!
You see so much as well,
Cheers
@@northumberlandmountainhopper Cheers Adrian.
Well done Adrian, brilliant video I love watching this type of camping and a lovely spot to camp too I hope you slept well.
Hi and thanks
Yes slept well only noticed the cold when I woke for a wee !
Just kept down jacket and sleeping bag done up tight
Cheers
Nice video. I like all the explanation about the sleeping bag the mat and all the different things that you're wearing.🙂
Hi and thanks, thermals let you move and not get you tangled up like a coat
Cheers
Cheers and merry Christmas to you.
👍🍻
Hi again, merry Christmas to you, get out with the new gear !
Cheers
Nice one , looked rather fresh but did the trick 🥶👍
Hi and thanks, cold camps are great it’s just keeping warm as once cold that’s it ,unpleasant, find the bivy better than a tent as it makes you get in the bag,
Cheers Adrian
Cracking video, just come across your channel, and subbed, sweet setup, lovely location too, good health and safe travels, cheers craig
Hi and welcome, it’s always interesting when you get a new sub, as I click on the channel to view any video content, you have some I will watch so I will sub you, I was a keen Barbel fisherman 1984 to 2000 having fished the lower Severn and the river Teme
Now up north it’s the outdoors
Cheer’s happy Christmas
Adrian
Nice little camp there Adrian.. can't beat being out this time of year..ATB Lincoln 👍🤙
Hi and thanks, I also love the cold fry nights,
Cheers Adrian
Hiya. Really enjoyed watching that. Minimum kit and having a good experience out. Always an education watching your vids 👍
Hi and thanks, really enjoyed the frosty bivy
Nothing beats a bivy camp in the frost. Cracking bit of woodland. I was a bit worried when i saw the foil mat under the bivy but then you said you had your xped mat in your bivy and I was relieved... that would have been a bitter night without it.
I'm also no fan of sleeping in my clothes. I didn't think that sleeping bag would of been OK tbh, but like you said it's all experimental with the kit and you have to try these things otherwise how would you know for sure. Great camp and you're never too old to play in the woods. And Merry Christmas Ade👍✌️👌👊💥
Hi Gez that 400 bag was certainly not up to the job but was ok when I used the down jacket, it was a bit of a trial, testing what I need to carry, as unlike your good self I want a light carry, but I will stick to taking thermals as coats are to restrictive in the bag, I am only using the foam mat to prevent punctures in my bivy bags while in woods, on the hill tops I would just have the bivy in the floor
Cheers Adrian
Hi there, new subscriber here. Wow… that’s brave bivvy camping in the winter. Good stuff 😊
Hi and welcome, I love the bivy, you are much more part of the environment, see more and get more fresh air,
Cheers
Camping in these cold temps keep you young! 🙂
Hi and welcome, lol don’t know about that, as when out of the sleeping bag it’s hard on your feet and hands, but I just love the openness of a bivy
Cheers
Great stuff Adrian, love a frosty little camp. Looking forward to getting back out with you soon…
Hi and thanks Graham
It was nice in the frost
We will go to the woods tent or bivy
Cheers
Same kit as me mate apart from the stove and the sleeping bag awesome set up
Hi and hello, do you use the tarp the same way. ? I have just gone to this little tarp, as I was using just the magic carpet to cover my head end on my light camps, but this gives me space to change etc, I use the bigger tarp when I have too, same as a tent, next time it’s the big sleeping bag as I pushed it on this one, as for the stove it’s useless in the cold, my two don’t have regulators on them so I need an upgrade.
Cheers and enjoy the tarp and bivy camping
@@northumberlandmountainhopper depends on weather conditions which way I have it lean to or apex..
Sleeping bag i use syn ones my winter one is like a bouncing bomb (takes up my pack lol)
Stove I like to used alcohol ones, yes they take longer but are quiet.. I use a fancy feast or the none spill stoves which are good..
Atb Daz
Great video, thanks for sharing
Hi and thanks
That looked parky Adrian 🥶
But what a super spot you had m8t (the ice on the tarp in the morning don’t lie 🙌🙌❄️)
Best wishes Simon 😊🙏🏼
Hi Simon, really enjoy a crisp walk around the woods before bed and in the morning,
I was just warm enough, but did not enjoy sleeping in the jacket,much prefer thermals so it’s the big bag next time,little tarp proving good.
Cheers Adrian
@@northumberlandmountainhopper excellent 👍 look forward to that one m8t
Good job I got all summer to try me kit out. Does temperature make a bivvi bag more or less prone to condensation? Another beautiful location and video, great job.
Hi and thanks for watching, personally I think and I only suffer from condensation when it’s really damp summer or winter, I have had many dry cold camps, it’s just where the heat transfer occurs.
Cheers
Nice woodland that Adrian its definitely getting cold now mate was around -6 at camp last night atvb Jimmy 😎😎👍👍
Hi Jimmy, yes really cold now, but it’s great to be out,warmer bag next time,
Cheers Adrian
hey mate, great setup. Have you thought about using a fleece liner to boost the temperature rating one the 400? I use the sea to summit one and its brilliant. Hardy
Hi and thanks for popping by, I will check how heavy a thick liner is as the bag with liner may approach the weight of the ascent 1900gr ? I have a silk one but I am not keen as I get tangled up in the night, my bags are also 230cm x/l and preferably I like the sizes to all match, thanks for the suggestion I will check a fleece one out.
Cheers Adrian
Very enjoyable
But I'll keep my saitaris tent and me snugpak Antarctic re sleeping bag 👍
Hi and welcome, my Rab ascent 1100 is my favourite bag ever just a bit heavy at 1900gr
I have tents but love a bivy !!!
Cheers
I'm enjoying your videos. You might want to try that experiment again, but this time removing your down jacket and placing it as an extra covering over your sleeping bag. It works better. Also, any spare clothing, place in the bottom of the bivi bag to reduce the amount of air that needs heating up. Enjoyed it. Thank you
Hi and thanks for watching
Good idea with the clothes but if the bivy got condensation the clothes would be wet
Cheers
@northumberlandmountainhopper Do you know, that's never occurred to me, though the British army bivi bag doesn't suffer badly with condensation, especially if in a little breeze.
The down jacket over the sleeping bag works well, though I've never had need to do it while in a bivi bag.
Thanks. Every day is a school day.
@@mallyredfearn6834 yes the army bivy bag is magic I use it in the winter
Cheers
Hello there. Is that foam mat one of the £15-20 ones with reflective coating on AMZ? When you said the ground was still frozen underneath you, I thought that was a good sign. I have just bought a bivy and am looking around for ideas. Subbed.
Hi and thanks for coming along, yes it was that cold it was still frozen, it’s an Alpkit foam mat and does the job well
Good look with the bivy you can’t beat them
Cheers
Here in the PNW (Seattle), where the winters are wet. It can feel even colder with a little drop in temp to the mid 30’s F (-1C), It can feel especially cold with the higher moisture content here. Which is probably similar to your area over there.
Working construction in the 80’s I had learned to use a vitamin to help my body give me a little boost in heat. I would take niacin and break it in half and take it through the morning till I could get my feet warmed up. After they got warmed up with the niacin then my activity would get the blood flowing.
Niacin (they say) disclaimer! Opens up the capillaries in our cardiovascular system. So I basically was getting a head start with the niacin. But take to much of it I would get really hot and then felt colder through the day, like a match flaming up and out. So I learned, less is more, and as time went on my system took the cold better.
Hi from afar, interesting comment,
I will research it but doubt I will try,
Very interested in its use now,
Cheers
I’m doing the Tommy sleep out in march I may do the same set up
Hi and thanks for watching, it’s a great quick set up, you can go smaller on the tarp but loose the changing space
Cheers
Looks like a great night out, you won't beat the NeoAir XTherm pad for v cold winter camping, a new quiet one comes out soon, but these are great for keeping you warm with lighter gear so wonder if it would work for you and the lighter bag? We run our get home bags with these and Hyperion -6 bags as they are light, with a bivvy over the top. Might be worth a look if you want warmth but not the weight?
Hi and thanks for the input, I will check some specs out, happy with the sleeping bags, but will look at the mat for choices when these fail or I can treat myself !
I could save weight by having a normal size mat but I enjoy the wide mat.
Cheers
Larger tarp, and its not illegal to have two sleeping bags or quilts in my case.
aqua quest safari tarp in boulder camo 9*9.
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Hi and thanks for watching, yes two bags would be warm
Cheers
nice one
Hi and thanks
Nice
Hi and thanjs
Nice change to see a video without A10 minute preamble and some useful info
Hi and thanks, just out for a bivy !
Y set in the lowest point,
Hi welcome ?
@@northumberlandmountainhopper hello bud thanks for reply will check out more of Yr posts 👀🙏
What ? I have none bud
I struggle to understand the point of camping this way in winter. You can buy a more robust, better weather protection, warmer, and no heavier tent. If you’re going to use a bivi why not at least use a tarp that gives total cover. Try putting chemical hand warmers in your boots overnight and plug them with something to reduce heat loss (I use my thermal mattress stuff sack). If you use a Nalgene bottle, fill it with hot water and use it as a hot water bottle - it also means you have liquid water in the morning and not a block of ice.
Hi and welcome, each to their own, this is a new little tarp set up I am trialling for use on long hikes/climbs,
In fact my favourite set up was the little magic carpet, but changed to this so I could get changed in the rain,
I also enjoy having minimal cover as I am more part of where I am, as for the boots yes a warmer is a good idea, but if it’s really cold I put them in the bivy, in a bag.
As for weight
I have a tent that weighs 1.3kg but prefer a bivy camp,
Thanks for the input and hopefully see you again.
Cheers
How is that global warming thing going for Britain
Hi and welcome, not as bad as some countries,
What more can I say
Cheers