Lightweight Tarp And Bivvy Set Up

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This is my lightweight tarp and bivvy set up, which weighs only 1.6kg or 3lbs 9oz. While it's very light, it's also very protective - as protective as much heavier set-ups. I featured the components of this lightweight camping outfit in a previous video about lightening the load in your rucksack. Here I wanted to show you how it looks when set up as well as demonstrating how quick and easy it is to set up. The tarp is a good quality silicone nylon tarp with enough coverage for one person. Combined with a lightweight bivvy bag by Snugpak, a minimalistic goosedown bag by Mountain Equipment and one of Thermarest's lightest self-inflating mattresses, you have a winning combination of minimal weight and maximum performance.

For my tutorials on how to tie the tarp knots shown in this video, watch the following here on YouTube:

How To Tie An Evenk Hitch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RE5PgvbWUsw

How To Tie A Taut Tarp Hitch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj41GwEaKeQ

How To Tie An Adjustable Guyline Hitch:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9Jj1FZCPBo

Get more wilderness bushcraft, survival skills and information to enhance your outdoor life on my blog at http://paulkirtley.co.uk

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Video Transcription

hi there Paul currently here author of pork at this blog and founder of frontier bushcraft welcome to my youtube channel now in a previous video I talked about lightening the load and specifically talked about reducing the weight of your sleeping kit from stuff that's too heavy over specified right down through to really light weight set up and in this video I'm going to show you how that light weight set up looks set up I know a few people might be a little bit dubious and whether it's going to be protective enough compared to what they used to so I'm going to show you what it looks like how its set up I'll take you around to show you a couple features so you get an idea of what that light weight so they can either on top light weight bivi bag lightweight sleeping mat lightweight sleeping bag looks like set up in the woods come with me you

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so I'm gonna take you in she's going to take the camera off here am I going to go in all right so just for a closer look and they're here quite nice light coming through it quite bright under there even though it's a dark green top as the outside as the inside is coming in here's the lightweight bivvy you can see central zip here and just kind of to put the camera down for a second bear with me lightweight down bag so Mountain Equipment 0-200 Goods 2 3 C 2 2 3 season bag depending on how warm you sleep particularly if you add some warm layers socks and a hat perfectly good in the UK from April through till September October and there's the thumb rest pro-lite short and very comfy very warm warmer than you'd expect and the sleeping bag is very comfortable and very warm it'll puff up a little bit more than that the bivi bag is very protective and very breathable surprisingly breathable and you look at it and you think that's going to be like a polythene bag look but it breathes very well I'm impressed and good space for one person to bivy down and a little bit of kit under here you can get your boots and your rucksack under here as well even if you need to put your feet out the other end a little bit bigger bags waterproof so yeah it's fantastic oh very good snow nice little thing you notice that put all of the stuff sacks together here put them together in in the dry bag for the for the sleeping bag we can of course put a hanging line under here as well and hang things off and I'll put a link up to an article about that and which I wrote some time ago which you may find useful as well so there we have it just put this back on here so there you have it good sized sleeping system for me very lightweight 1.6 kilos 1.6 to 1.7 depending on how much string you've got on there how much cordage you've got on the top very lightweight less than four pounds if you're working in imperial very protective very quick to set up as you can see an equally quick to take down and I hope you find that interesting I hope it serves you well appreciate some of the items a little bit more expensive than some of the basic items that I've showed in previous videos but if you're really looking to save weight I hope you've got some good ideas from this thanks for watching leave some comments below and I'll see you in the next video thanks