bivvying in the snow
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My first proper bag was an Ultimate Equipment Mountain 12 (?) It was really warm and had a nice cotton liningdrcarlos":3apvlekj said:
..you'll be 'right in yer Y-fronts, just make sure you've a piss-pot in your tent -'tis pant's having to pop out for a pee in this weather.
ferrus":3ofg6d0j said:Near Wensley/Winster..marin man":3ofg6d0j said:Where were you ? heights of abraham/reiber etc.I know the area well
Did you live 'round here MM?
I know Riber well ..no matter where you are in Matlock you can 'always' see Riber castle, -quite extraordinary.
We got snowed in at reiber hall hotel a couple of years back,9 days lol and they only charged us for three nights,as the place had been deserted in the snow storm that year and they had left a side door open for us in case we still turned up :shock: our hired rear wheel drive van was totally bewildered by the hill on the way up so we walked about 1 mile in three feet of snow.......great fun
Is it still a hotel do you know as the website is not active currently and I wanted to book for after christmas :?
Nags head at castleton if not
No idea, it was about a year ago ....it's waay out of my league that place!marin man":3q0w95rz said:Is it still a hotel do you know as the website is not active currently and I wanted to book for after christmas :?
Nags head at castleton if not
If you've the means, here's very nice too and the food's superb: http://www.fischers-baslowhall.co.uk/
silverclaws
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From experience I would not take a down bag out without a cover, or bivvy bag. I used to cycle bivvy up in the lakes with a collie dog, my first bivvy bag was a £100 goretex jobby from Survival Aids of Penrith. I am after one now, but my place of looking is ebay, for ex military gore tex bags, they on there go for about £35 maximum and sometimes a hell of a lot cheaper. If you search on there type in variations on the name bivi as ex pongos can't spell.
The experience of unprotected down, well, in my tent which was/is a Saunders Spacepacker plus which I sometimes used with flysheet only for cycle camping( could take the bike inside and have plenty of room for oneself and the dog), I dropped a cup of coffee on the sleeping bag, it was buggered for days and stained on the inside, to look as if one had had an accident in there.
Quite simple down gets wet, it is next to useless for thermal insulation, have down, get gore tex bivi bag and as soon as the sleeping bag comes out bung it it is the goretex as the first job you do even if you are not using it for a while, as loosing something like that in winter is not a good survival move and minus whatever in ice and snow can be survival.
But if snow is deep enough, try digging a snow hole, they are fun and surprisingly comfortable. Having a dog with you is like having a portable heater.
The experience of unprotected down, well, in my tent which was/is a Saunders Spacepacker plus which I sometimes used with flysheet only for cycle camping( could take the bike inside and have plenty of room for oneself and the dog), I dropped a cup of coffee on the sleeping bag, it was buggered for days and stained on the inside, to look as if one had had an accident in there.
Quite simple down gets wet, it is next to useless for thermal insulation, have down, get gore tex bivi bag and as soon as the sleeping bag comes out bung it it is the goretex as the first job you do even if you are not using it for a while, as loosing something like that in winter is not a good survival move and minus whatever in ice and snow can be survival.
But if snow is deep enough, try digging a snow hole, they are fun and surprisingly comfortable. Having a dog with you is like having a portable heater.
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