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If you’re shaping up for a multi-day race or fast-packing adventure, then you’ll be faced with an inevitable trade-off when purchasing your overnight set-up: a good night’s sleep or running with a ...

It's the first day of my holiday and I'm faced with that eternal dilemma: remain deliciously warm, or get up and go for that swim? Since sleeping in on holiday is deeply self-disgusting, I prepare to ...

I ve always hated bivy bags as anything but an emergency shelter, or for use on a climb when weight and space for a tent is at an absolute premium. I hate them even more now that tents are so light, ...

Serious campers, hikers and long-distance athletes know that one of the best ways to stay fit and healthy as you move through the wilderness is by getting a good night’s sleep. A bivy sack (“bivy” is ...

Why am I reminded of the scene toward the end of Pulp Fiction” when the John Travolta character, Vincent, berates his friend Jules (Samuel L. Jackson) over Jules’s plan to give up the gangster life ...

The trouble with wild camping, it’s always seemed to me, is the tent. It’s too much to carry, especially after you’ve factored in all your bedding, cooking equipment and food. On top of that, why do ...

An eight-year-old boy plans to spend 100 nights sleeping in a bivvy bag in his back garden to raise funds for the Captain Tom Foundation. Archie Tunstill, who lives in a village near Newmarket in ...