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There’s glamping, there’s camping and there’s bivvying. One step up from cowboy camping (that is sleeping in the wild), a bivouac or bivvy is the most basic outdoor living set-up, favoured by extreme ...

A couple of decades ago, choosing between a one-person tent and a bivy sack was pretty easy. The differences between the two types of solo shelters were more extreme than they are now. Early bivy ...