Tarp and Bivy on the English Scottish Border 1
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- čas přidán 27. 08. 2024
- A Tarp and Bivy camp on the Border wall in Northumberland,
A great walk in, with some great views,
A very windy wild camp,
I suffered yet again from mad condensation, can only think I produce so much heat when wrapped up, and then it hits the cold spots.
Moving forwards, for one night camps it’s not a problem.
A great camp with some good company
Graham from Grahams wild camping
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Cracking location Adrian some stunning view's mate i definitely think the condensation problem is the amount of clothing you wear I've never has that problem before definitely a windy one mate atvb Jimmy 😎😎👍👍
Hi Jimmy, thanks for watching, yes it was a magic spot, it’s great to have the border so near,
I will experiment with clothes but it’s not a camp changer for one night
Cheers Adrian
Thanks for making this video .excellent and very informative.i have subd.ile bingwatch when the time allows😎
Hi and thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed it, most of the videos going forward will be tarp and bivy as I enjoy them the most.
Some bad fails in the back catalogue lol
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Wow them views from the cairn 360 degrees, you cant beat it. I really like the hooped bivy option. I have just bought the same spirit burner wind shield, oh no!
Hi Phil and thanks for watching, it’s a magic spot we found without doubt, don’t use it ! The bits that take the cup bend and then, all your water lost !!!!
Cheers Adrian
Watched Graham's video first
Great to see a different perspective on the same adventure 😎
Hi and thanks for watching,yes we all get different things from our camps
Cheers
Great camp Adrian, one of our most enjoyable I think. Smashing spot that we found, definitely one to go back to 👍👍
Hi Graham, a record for you there, First, yes a great camp in a great spot was had,
Cheers Adrian
I put my gore tex jacket on top of my sleeping bag at the foot end. It helps insulate the bag from the cold material of the Bivy. Sleeping mat on the outside gives more room for the sleeping bag to loft and for the damp air to move to the head and out. I made a little tent pole to lift the foot up as well, but you know what? You always get some condensation in the winter and especially if the Bivy gets wet. Even Goretex won’t breathe once the water is lying on it. Good video. 👍🏻
Hi and thanks for watching, yes you are right but the goretex is better in the winter, I will try the Elan with the mat under it next, and I have a Dutch army goretex one hopefully on the way !!
Love the bivy even if a bit damp !
Cheers
Cracking camp Adrian. What a stunning location plus a bonus sunrise. Really enjoyed watching.
Atvb Andy 👊
Hi and thanks for watching
Glad you enjoyed it
Very unspoilt isolated part of the Cheviots
Cheers
Cool camp Adrian, stunning place, I have that condensation problem the mil-tec usmc copy tri laminate bivvy bag, tried it a couple of times, soak sleeping bag every time, and I was only in a t-shirt and shorts too, so gave it to my son ,my army bivvy bag is brilliant, so will stay with that, though going to try the Dutch army hooped bivvy, see what that's like, for as you said about a low shelter profile up the hills etc, stunning sunrise, good health and safe travels my friend, cheers craig
Hi Craig and thanks for watching,
Yes the spot was fantastic
I have ordered a hooped Dutch bivy in grade A condition so fingers crossed, mind it’s 1.5 kg lol but what price is a good camp !! As you say the goretex bags are spot on
Cheers Adrian
Another great vid, I have that bivy and havntt experienced the condensation you did yet but I only had base layers on! And completely agrrr, wish the wind would do one now lol!
Hi and thanks for watching, it was a magic spot to be sure, I have a goretex dutch army one on the way so hopefully be better,
Cheers
This is my favourite bivvy tarp camping channel 👍
Hi and thanks for watching, glad you enjoy the videos
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Great instruction video regarding things to expect when bivi/tarp camping. I love this set up. Amazing location. Thanks for sharing 👍
Hi and thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed it, if you look at my other videos you will see the goretex bivy gives almost no issues in the cold and wet, think the Alpkit bivies are great for the summer as so light
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Can’t beat a tarp and Bivy camp
Lovely part of the world what fantastic views
Valley and peak do a cone for a toaks pot called a vesuv
I tried to add a link but it wouldn’t let me
All the best Mick
Hi and thanks for watching, as it happens I have just purchased the Border raiders wind shield for the Alpkit 650 mug so I should be sorted
Glad you enjoy the video
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Forgot to say well done on the viewing figures, that's great stats mate.
Hi and thanks 👍
I always loved that part of the World. Fond memories of hiking around Northumberland.
Hi and thanks for watching
Yes we are lucky up here, so quiet and unspoiled with few people
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This looks like a fantastic wild camp! 🏕 Loved waking up to those incredible views, especially with the moon still shining! 🌕 The wind looked intense! Glad you were able to stay cozy and dry in your bivy, though. I bet a nice warm cup of coffee helps too! ☕
Hi and thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed it, we found a nice spot there, I am returning this week, maybe to the top !
Cheers
Great video as always, thanks for posting.
Hi and thanks for watching
Glad you enjoy the videos
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Hello Adrian, I enjoyed this one very much. I think the hooped bivy and you are suited. Especially when your feet are dry after rain. Bigger tarp!
Best regards from Australia.
Hi and thanks for watching, from Australia, I do love a bivy, before I complete the purchase of the Alpkit hooped bivy I have ordered a Dutch army hooped goretex one
Cheers from the uk
Spot on Adrian, great little place to camp 👍, them alpkit bivys are good, only problem is the condensation as you pointed out, but as long as it doesn’t go through the bag then it’ll be ok. hopefully when it’s warmer weather it should be better. Views looked great, atb Mick 👍
Hi mick, thanks for watching, yes it was a nice spot, got a Dutch army hooped bivy to try tonight, it’s like as new, good purchase I feel, so may return the Elan, trouble is it’s 1.5 kg !!! So with a Tarp nearly 2!!!!!
Cheers Adrian
Stunning location Adrian, love that area. Nice spot to spend the night. Surprised by the amount of condensation, you certainly don’t seem to get that in your army bivvy. Great vid as always. Cheers, Dave 👍
Hi Dave, thanks for watching, yes magic area, will explore further around there,
Bit of moisture on one nights camp, I can live with it !! As I love a bivy !!
Hopefully Got a Dutch army hooped goretex bivy on the way,
Cheers
Nice, cold,damp, windy, lumpy pitch with a wet bag again just great!!!!👍
Hi and thanks for watching
Yes it was great, pitch was quite soft !
Cheers
I love the Alpkit Elan bivvy. I have used it on a couple of wild camps in the summer and it was great. I am 6ft 2 and fairly well built and I couldn't believe how much space I had. Not too expensive and certainly worth a purchase. Great video as always :)
Hi and thanks for watching, yes it’s big I am 6’3” and the length is great
Not bothered about the condensation as I seem to suffer this more than most,
Gore tex army bivy is much more breathable but I do like the Alpkit bivies
Cheers
Even here in Sussex we have had days and months of high winds, never known it like this before. Usually down this way you get some fine weekends, now it’s raining this week into next. Going to try bike packing when warmer.
Hi and thanks for watching, yes we are all suffering the weather
Cheers
@northumberlandmountainhopper I also had bad condensation under a tarp throughout my sleeping bag, so today I did some research and it seems that being in a bivy bag is akin to being in a plastic bag. The solution is a thinner sleeping bag and a bivi that lets heat and condensation escape. One that breaths, so that’s my next quest.
@@Dutcharmytentthe British army one I use is the best by far, 800gr
But I like the Hunka as it’s light for the summer, and the hooped one for windy camps,
@@northumberlandmountainhopper cheers for the info, it’s very useful.
Enjoyed watching that. Looks great spot. Atb. Mark
Hi and thanks for watching, yes a great find no sign of footprints previously, glad you enjoyed it.
Cheers
Lovely location and great bivy camp, cheers.
Hi and thanks for watching
Glad you enjoyed it
Cheers
so so windy 😂😂
Hi and thanks for watching, at least you found it amusing
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1:49 - I’d have said “bleak” rather than beautiful! That view down to the sea does look good though!
Hi and thanks for watching, beautiful is what I think as it’s so bleak and quiet, I just love it, not English green and pleasant landscape at all up here !!!!
Thanks for the many comments
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@@northumberlandmountainhopper - I recognise that comments amp videos and channels, so I aways try to drop a comment in to help out.
Beautiful spot, what a view! For protection though I think I would have gone into the trees, or is that not allowed?
Hi and thanks for watching, lol nowhere is allowed on the English side, as for the trees it was on a steep slope so only good for the hammock, and they are prone to uproot after the storms.
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@@northumberlandmountainhopper Thanks for answering, as an American who lives in a not-too-populated state I still forget that not everyone can camp freely. Looked like a great trip, even with the wind!
@@asmith7876another viewer from the USA, are tarps and bivy’s big over there ? I wonder as I have a fair few US subs
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@@northumberlandmountainhopper I'm no authority but I would say tarps are not common, bivy bags maybe more so but most people seem to use tents. I camp alone or with one friend who likes to camp like I do, but I know when I pass other camp sites on the trail I see tents way more than a tarp and hammock like me. I recently got a bivy bag but I've only used it once so I can't speak a lot about it yet. I'd sure bring it if I ever came to camp over there!
Wow that's a lot of condensation. Great video.
Hi and thanks for watching, lol, I seem to be prone to excessive condensation, perhaps it’s time to stop thinking of solutions and just live with it !! It does not stop the camp !! It’s red hot in the bivy, foot warmers, hand warmers and lots of down !!!!!!
Cheers
Enjoyed the video and love tarp/bivvy as well. I saw Elan down to 79.99 from 99.99 through Alpkit just now
Hi and thanks for watching, yes they reduced it on Tuesday so I ordered it before trying this one, turns out it was ok
Just not so good in cold and damp as Gore tex
Cheers
@@northumberlandmountainhopper I was wondering if lofting up the foot end with the loop with a cord might help?
@@krruns4165watch this space, cheers
Great spot mate, hope you were not responsible for Graham’s weird dreams……
Hi Hardy, thanks for watching, yes it’s a find that area, no not guilty he managed on his own !!!
Cheers Adrian
Nice one Adrian, I thought my sleeping bag was bad with condensation the other night 😱 the conditions lately have been really bad . A windy old camp tho 💨💨💨 spring not far away now atb Dave ⛺️👍
Hi Dave, yes the wind !! So hard to get up the hills !!
As for condensation it just seems to be my norm !!!
I had foot warmers, hand warmers and all the down gear so I was sleeping hot, perhaps cover the whole bivy with the tarp next time
Cheers Adrian
Great camp 👍. I've got an Elan, try raising the foot end so your bag isn't touching the inside of the bivvi so much. In colder conditions I find this helps 👍
Hi and thanks for watching, thanks for the hint, I will try it next bivy,as mine comes this Saturday
Cheers
Just as a matter of interest, I have two Alpkit bivi Hunka bags and a Elan hooped bivi. I have only used the bags within my Alpkit Tarpstar 1, but neither the tarp tent or the bags have had condensation in either cold or warm conditions. I’ve used the Elan twice in both freezing and near freezing conditions. I wonder if it’s because I’m a cold sleeper. I do always have a small gap under the outer fly or tarp. Maybe this stream of air at at low level prevents a back eddy causing a tumble drier like air zone into which I breath moist air. Looking back I never had anything other than very minor condensation on the inside of the fly in my Alpkit soloist which I have since sold. It’s a mystery why you experience so much condensation. Maybe your a bit of a furnace Adrian? 🤣 We must continue to experiment!
Hi and thanks for watching and your interest, yes I must sleep warm and give off a lot of heat, I wrap up warm so probably get warmer as the night goes on
My army bivy gets a little damp because I cinch it up whereas the army hooped bivy I can leave a little open as I have no draughts
Like you say it’s ongoing with kit
Cheers
Nice set up. shame about the condensation though.
Hi and thanks for watching,
Yes I love this set up, watch this space as next camp is with Dutch army goretex bivy
Cheers
Been watching graham's videos with the Elan, bit undecided then I see you're getting one..... 1 Elan for shaun please, looking forward to testing mine out 👍
Hi and thanks for watching, I am also waiting for a Dutch army goretex bivy if it’s any good probably have it instead of the Elan as I suffer bad condensation away from goretex
Cheers
@northumberlandmountainhopper I was considering the dutch army one but could only find the spanish fesca version and I've heard too many bad reports about the zips to justify the cost. I'll be watching for your video when yours arrives.
@@shaun_Pit comes tomorrow fingers crossed 🤞
Great location , the condensation is a worry though !
Hi Shaun, thanks for watching, it may be something I have to live with, need all the clothes now ! Not a problem on one night campsite,
Yes it was some special pitch.
Cheers Adrian
Actually the tarp set up from a month ago Northumberland Tarp and Bivy would be ideal for the hooped Bivy.
Cheers
Hi and thanks again for watching and taking an interest, it would yes, But and it was a big but, I could not have slept across and under due to the ground and I had to pitch in that direction for the wind !!!! It’s never easy lol
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I have the alpkit and that looks like water coming through the membrane as I never had that amount of condensation in any bivvi. Also you should raise the foot end using a small stick and guy line which helps a lot.
Hi and thanks for watching, and the hints, to be honest if you look through my videos I seem to suffer badly when using the Hunka and now this Elan, this time it was soaked under the Exped mat and covered in wet on top of the sleeping bag, but only where exposed to falling cold air, and the bivy was on a foam mat ! It has to be the warmth I create by having to wrap up,
I will be trying the new Elan when it comes so that will be new membrane.
Cheers
Another beauty. If you can manage it I’d like it if you would spend some time showing how you set up your pitch rather than showing it when it’s set up.
I have the Elan too. Do you find it cramped?
Hi and thanks for watching, all I do it put the tarp up and roll out a bivy, that’s the first time I have used a hooped bivy, I borrowed it, I normally use an open one, I thought a hooped one would be good for the summits in the wind,
I have ordered a Dutch army one to save the dampness !!
Hopefully out in it Wednesday
Cheers
@@northumberlandmountainhopper I’ve been watching your videos for some time now. Love them! I meant it would be good to see how you set up the tarp with your poles and what knots/fixings you use.
I went up high ground in -6C with snow in my Elan and didn’t have a condensation issue at all. It was zipped up with about 3” of opening. What I did find though was that my head was almost touching the top of the bivvy on top of my x-therm with the pipedream 600 bag in there!
Looking forward to watching your next one! 🙌
Edit - did you peg out the foot end and have the vent open at the head end?
That is such a beautiful place you've found. Love your setup but condensation is a b*tch. How was your sleeping bag? I've been using my jack wolfskin gossamer 1 and I have minimal condensation. A bit of a cheat being a bivvy tent but it works a treat. Subscribed because love your attitude :)
Hi and thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed it, condensation, seems it follows me !! Sleeping bag was fine as it has the repellent coating, I never get wet as a rule, I have had a disaster where I got wet legs, but love the bivy camps so it is what it is
Cheers
Feel more free 6 feet over the wall in Scotland 👌🏻
Hi and thanks for watching, so true, at least we can get to Scotland as it’s so near
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It's just that England parking fees hound you upto the border then once in Scotland I've seen Free camper van parking with facilities water ect@@northumberlandmountainhopper
@@zeez4178hi, yes it’s so much more friendly across the border, as for camper vans England makes no effort at all, in Northumberland we have I think 10 over night bays at £12 for 6pm-8am so unless you are up early you have to pay extra as well, and move the van a bit !!!!!
Absolutely useless
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I always enjoy watching your camps, you persuaded me to buy an army bivi, Being ex forces I've used one many times before, but I can see the benefits of a tarp and bivi camp.
I keep meaning to ask what down trousers have you got and where from?, and if they're from Amazon or ebay what size are you waist and leg and what size did you need to buy?, my apologise for all the questions
Hi and thanks for watching
Glad you enjoy the videos
The down trousers are Rab Argon
X/l size as I am 36 waist, not cheap at £160.00 I got mine off the cheapest place at the time, now about £157 just google, not cheap but I wanted ethical collected down.
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@northumberlandmountainhopper thank you, warmth comes at cost, it's sterling or condensation😁 cheers
Get a dutch army hooped bivvy or dutch army bivvy bag has a side zip
Hi and thanks for watching, I will investigate what’s out there
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I have a Carinthia Bivvy, absolutely bombproof.
Great Video 👏👏👏
Hi and thank for watching, yes try do seem the business, never seen one in the flesh, expensive but good.
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Some wrap their raincoat around the foot of the sleeping bag. And some put the empty rucksack underneath the footbox. Seem like good ideas
@@dont_delayyes I have wrapped my paclite around, normally when in a tent
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12:24 - I’m not a big fan of Alpkit stuff. Is that bivvy a copy of the Snugpak one?
Hi and thanks for watching, similar I suppose but aren’t most bits of kit, it’s nice and light, but due to condensation issues it’s only any good (for me)on a warm dry night !!! Well that’s my experience of my Alpkit Hunka bivy, it was the first and last time in the Elan !! gortex and three layer fabrics on the army bivy’s well worth the extra weight
Cheers
@@northumberlandmountainhopper - I agree, for the extra few grams I’d rather be dry!
Look at speedster stoves he's got somme good windshield stands I used his gear
Hi and thanks for watching, yes thanks, I ordered the Speedster wind shield etc last night
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@@northumberlandmountainhopper I've been using his.kit a long time now and I swear by it, he's a local lad to me, he's very good to work with, may I suggest you get one of his stoves to go with the shield I've got the 60 ml one for a long burn time. And you just blow them out and get the simmer ring to ATB Daz
@@Dazck9sha ha I have the 30 ml one and simmer ring etc always kit to buy
@@northumberlandmountainhopper haha honestly you'll not goo wrong, I highly recommend his gear
xboils are ok
Hi and thanks for watching, never looked at xboils ??
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Try duttch army bivvy
Hi and thanks for watching, a few people have suggested this I will investigate
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Have you thought about a dutch army hooped bivy?
Hi and thanks for watching, no I have not looked, I will check the surplus stores tonight
Are they gore Tex I will see
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Great video as always, thanks for posting.
Hi and thanks for watching, glad you enjoy them
Cheers