Hogmanay bivy?
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- metalheart
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Hogmanay bivy?
I'm kind of getting a strange feeling recently that I should go for a bivy the 31st/1st (get my bivy a month under proper way).
Thinking out Glen Tanar way...
Am I just suffering pre new year blues?
Thinking out Glen Tanar way...
Am I just suffering pre new year blues?
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Re: Hogmanay bivy?
I want no involvement with your "strange feelings" fella.
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Re: Hogmanay bivy?
Away down south to be fair, but I'll be up for some miles and bivvies next year for sure.
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Re: Hogmanay bivy?
I'll be at home that night - though I may wander up Craigellachie with a camera for some shots of the fireworks.
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Re: Hogmanay bivy?
Tbh, I wasn't really expecting offers of company
I'm an anti social bastard most of the time, and obvious have 'nae mates' else id be out on the lash with the rest of my fellow countrymen.
More of a change for me (and kick off the new year in good form). Guess it'll depend on the weather...

I'm an anti social bastard most of the time, and obvious have 'nae mates' else id be out on the lash with the rest of my fellow countrymen.
More of a change for me (and kick off the new year in good form). Guess it'll depend on the weather...
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Re: Hogmanay bivy?
Apart from a night 'under the stars' just curious as to why you would chose December 2016 to start bam?.............. for a bivy the 31st/1st (get my bivy a month under proper way).

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Re: Hogmanay bivy?
I ended my year of bivvy-a-month on NYE, on a hill overlooking Manchester. I'll probably never see so many fireworks again. It was mental, as the whole area errupted at once, and went on for a good 20 minutes.
If I ever bivvy out that night again (and I would) I'd find a good spot a few miles from a decent sized city.
If I ever bivvy out that night again (and I would) I'd find a good spot a few miles from a decent sized city.
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Re: Hogmanay bivy?
As a matter of interest.
If you went out say on Dec 31 for a bivi.
What do the rules say about this? Is it a December bivi or a January bivi?
If you went out say on Dec 31 for a bivi.
What do the rules say about this? Is it a December bivi or a January bivi?
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- metalheart
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Re: Hogmanay bivy?
Well, my reasoning was that the bivi would be more in January than December. If I stayed up to see the NY in then technically it would pretty much all be JanuaryJohnClimber wrote:As a matter of interest.
If you went out say on Dec 31 for a bivi.
What do the rules say about this? Is it a December bivi or a January bivi?

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Re: Hogmanay bivy?
I think you can interpret it both ways. To me, if I set out in December, on what's known as the night of 31st December, it's a December bivvy.
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Re: Hogmanay bivy?
It would count as Dec.What do the rules say about this? Is it a December bivi or a January bivi?
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Re: Hogmanay bivy?
NYE is brilliant ... not for going out drinking or for being told how great you are by people who wouldn't give you the time of day 364 days of the year but for a trip out, it's hard to beat.
Here's Mike on a very wet and windy mountain top last NYE.

Here's Mike on a very wet and windy mountain top last NYE.

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Re: Hogmanay bivy?
I think that as its NYE a special dispensation should be given.It would count as Dec.

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Re: Hogmanay bivy?
Rules. Schmools.Bearbonesnorm wrote:It would count as Dec.What do the rules say about this? Is it a December bivi or a January bivi?
(but yeah - I'd think of that as Dec too)
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Re: Hogmanay bivy?
NYE? read the thread title, we do things differently here 'north of the wall'...I think that as its NYE a special dispensation should be given.

Traitor! What should I have expected though from a bloody southrenerRules. Schmools.
(but yeah - I'd think of that as Dec too)

It'll probably be pishin rain or baltic anyways...

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Re: Hogmanay bivy?
You've still not forgiven me for making you order that 3rd pint then?