#bivouacking A Bivouac shelter is any of a variety of improvised camp sites such as those used in scouting and mountain climbing. It may often refer to sleeping in the open with a bivouac sack, but it may also refer to a shelter constructed of natural materials like a structure of branches to form frame may be utilized, which is then covered with leaves, ferns and similar for waterproofing and duff (leaf litter) for insulation. Today it is sometimes called bivy for short. The word bivouac is French and ultimately derives from an 18th-century Swiss German usage of beiwacht (bei = by, wacht = watch or patrol).
Posted on: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 01:01:53 +0000
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