I had a great idea for a light weight shelter and gave my mom a call.
Here’s the conversion:
Ring, ring.
Hey Mom.
Hey Camille, what’s up?
Do you think we can make a tarp and a bug bivy?
Sure, we can probably do that.
Great, I’ll order the fabric to be delivered to your house.
What’s a bug bivy? It takes fabric, hmmm????
Jump forward. There were no specific patterns to follow but a few guidelines pulled from the internet that required head scratching, measuring, folding and more math than a normal day requires. We had to call in the big guns for that, Ben. But basically, a bug bivy is a tapered triangular prism made of bug mush and a silnylon floor that is water proof. To protect from rain, a tarp is pitched overhead and anchored independently. Our tarp is modeled after the Gossemer Gear C-Twin Tarp and the bivy is based off the Mountain Laurel design.
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