Well done Jose, some great trips there - I've added you to the list. I think the Cairngorm bivvy may score you a BAM altitude record!

* cough *





Anyway, I'm sure that's been bettered furth of the UK.

ScotRoutes wrote: ↑Thu Jan 06, 2022 12:32 pm * cough *

Nurse, LFT for Mr Routes please!

Colin edges it - I was probably about 5m lower than the summit, dagnamit! Suppose I better push on a bit for Macdui this year...

To be honest I was expecting Jeff aka summit toppler to get on this as well!
There are those wee horse shoe shaped rock shelters on the top of Macdui....hmmmm...

Bearlegged wrote: ↑Thu Jan 06, 2022 12:34 pm

ScotRoutes wrote: ↑Thu Jan 06, 2022 12:32 pm * cough *

Nurse, LFT for Mr Routes please!

JoseMcTavish wrote: ↑Thu Jan 06, 2022 1:08 pm Colin edges it - I was probably about 5m lower than the summit, dagnamit! Suppose I better push on a bit for Macdui this year...

Yeah. Neither Braeriach nor Nevis seem like a pleasant prospect with a bike.

Some lovely images there from Jose and Scot

Thanks Cheeky!

ScotRoutes wrote: ↑Thu Jan 06, 2022 2:26 pm Yeah. Neither Braeriach nor Nevis seem like a pleasant prospect with a bike.

Yeah, Macdui's definitely the pick of the top 3 for a bike! Now here's a thought - who had the highest and lowest cumulative elevation for the year if they add up the elevation of their bivy spots for each month? I'm away to do some mathematics!

JoseMcTavish wrote: ↑Thu Jan 06, 2022 5:11 pm Thanks Cheeky!

ScotRoutes wrote: ↑Thu Jan 06, 2022 2:26 pm Yeah. Neither Braeriach nor Nevis seem like a pleasant prospect with a bike.

Yeah, Macdui's definitely the pick of the top 3 for a bike! Now here's a thought - who had the highest and lowest cumulative elevation for the year if they add up the elevation of their bivy spots for each month? I'm away to do some mathematics!

You've got to define it better than that. My hoose is about 220m! Do you mean the total amount climbed getting to all 12 BAMs or the total altitude of all 12 BAMs? If it's the former, some of mine will be negative

To be clear, the total elevation of all the locations that you chose to bivy at, rather than that gained during the ride. So if you slept on a beach every month, you would be barely scraping double figures. My results, thanks to living near the coast during garden bivy times:

Dec 165m
Nov 71m
Oct 400m
Sep 31m
Aug 394m
Jul 1239m
Jun 240m
May 482m
Apr 260m
Mar 70m
Feb 70m
Jan 70m

Total = 3492m

Jan 382
Feb 382
Mar 321
Apr 375
May 310
Jun 344
Jul 422
Aug 324
Sep 538
Oct 430
Nov 287
Dec 382
4,497

My house (staring point for all except October) is at 95m.
(Edit - a few extra bivvies takes me up to 5,718m for the year.)

Jeez - talk about a distraction!

Jan - 299
Feb - 215
Mar - 333
Apr - 305
May - 376
Jun - 6
Jul - 522
Aug - 385
Sep - 284
Oct - 349
Nov - 348
Dec - 287

Total - 3,709

Tell me about it! I'm trying to resist going back and comparing previous years

4047m but that's for all 20. Picking one for each month leads to 3275m max and 2602m min
I did think of calculating height gained for every before and after bivvy ride but I'd need the promise of a badge to go that far

2020

Jan - 342
Feb - 427
Mar - 415
Apr - 220
May - 570
Jun - 505
Jul - 468
Aug - 477
Sep - 532
Oct - 391
Nov - 256
Dec - 329

Total - 4,932m

It's too easy to do this with Strava!

2020 = 2467m
2019 = 3571m
2018 = 3695m

Could have done the actual climbing figures too, but decided to stop whilst it was on the verge of healthy obsession

2021

Jan 38
Feb 48
Mar 48
Apr 185
May 32
Jun 205
Jul 165
Aug 205
Sep 310
Oct 60
Nov 65
Dec 48

Total 1409m

If I did all my bivis this year at the highest point of the Island my total would be 2880m so maybe I'll see if I can get in enough mainland trips to beat that.

2019

Jan - 3
Feb - 320
Mar - 269
Apr - 294
May - 1244
Jun - 415
Jul - 418
Aug - 360
Sep - 328
Oct - 443
Nov - 3
Dec - 253

Total - 4,350

I've been trawling back through the 2019, 2020 and 2021 threads. It's been great. As well as reliving some of my own rides, I've been re-reading other folks stories too. Shame that so many photos are now missing but they're a great archive. I've also "found" a couple of bivvies I'd forgotten about so my total is now 95. That 100th is getting closer!!!

And has anyone spotted Jeff? I'm expecting him to blow these numbers away.

ScotRoutes wrote: ↑Fri Jan 07, 2022 11:17 pm
And has anyone spotted Jeff? I'm expecting him to blow these numbers away.

I think he's bivvied on top of a mountain in Wales somewhere

WE, cheeky disused office building, Dyfi forest, nicely found by Bearlegged's finely-tuned spot radar.

1/1, 1/12, 72/72

Are you in the wrong year here Reg?

What's new?

Wrong century usually TBH!