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Hogmanay bivy?

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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?
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I want no involvement with your "strange feelings" fella.

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Away down south to be fair, but I'll be up for some miles and bivvies next year for sure.
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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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Tbh, I wasn't really expecting offers of company :cool:

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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.............. for a bivy the 31st/1st (get my bivy a month under proper way).
Apart from a night 'under the stars' just curious as to why you would chose December 2016 to start bam? :???:
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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.
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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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JohnClimber 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?
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 January :grin:
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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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What do the rules say about this? Is it a December bivi or a January bivi?
It would count as Dec.
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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.

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It would count as Dec.
I think that as its NYE a special dispensation should be given. :|
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Bearbonesnorm wrote:
What do the rules say about this? Is it a December bivi or a January bivi?
It would count as Dec.
Rules. Schmools.

(but yeah - I'd think of that as Dec too)
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I think that as its NYE a special dispensation should be given.
NYE? read the thread title, we do things differently here 'north of the wall'... :lol:
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(but yeah - I'd think of that as Dec too)
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You've still not forgiven me for making you order that 3rd pint then?
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