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No necessarily, we camped and bivied with friends next to the Dog Falls in Glen Affric in June last year. We'd planned on a walk in to one of the Munroes but that didnae happen after somebody broke a window on my car so we couldn't leave it as was.
Remember the summer last year? Feckin warm so inside the Goretex bivi bag it wis bilin' but I couldn't unzip it as the midges were on a mission to eat me to the bone. Kept waking up in a panic as it was stifling trying to breathe the hot air inside bag.
The midges were so determined to get in I could hear them hitting the outside of the bag making a sound like drizzly rain. Woke up at one point and realised the midgie dive-bombing noise was gone, unzipped the bag and breathed in the much cooler air outside, relief, then fell asleep. Woke up soon after with midges eating me alive. Zzziipp.
Worst night of my life. Bivied in the pishing rain and cold before but I'd prefer that to what I went through that night.
So Rob if you do bivi when it's warm and there's midges wear a guid midgie net ower yer heid so you can have it ootside in the fresh air and make sure the top of yer bag is sealed tae keep oot the wee bastards.
You might have realised from the above story that I'm still traumatised by that experience. :shock:
RobMac":80oy4kqx said:
No necessarily, we camped and bivied with friends next to the Dog Falls in Glen Affric in June last year. We'd planned on a walk in to one of the Munroes but that didnae happen after somebody broke a window on my car so we couldn't leave it as was.
Remember the summer last year? Feckin warm so inside the Goretex bivi bag it wis bilin' but I couldn't unzip it as the midges were on a mission to eat me to the bone. Kept waking up in a panic as it was stifling trying to breathe the hot air inside bag.
The midges were so determined to get in I could hear them hitting the outside of the bag making a sound like drizzly rain. Woke up at one point and realised the midgie dive-bombing noise was gone, unzipped the bag and breathed in the much cooler air outside, relief, then fell asleep. Woke up soon after with midges eating me alive. Zzziipp.
Worst night of my life. Bivied in the pishing rain and cold before but I'd prefer that to what I went through that night.
So Rob if you do bivi when it's warm and there's midges wear a guid midgie net ower yer heid so you can have it ootside in the fresh air and make sure the top of yer bag is sealed tae keep oot the wee bastards.
You might have realised from the above story that I'm still traumatised by that experience. :shock:
