With BAM beginning to feel like Groundhog Day, I set off again at the end of the month, heading out on the bike path towards Westhill. Again the weather was mediocre with no definite rain in the forecast, but twice bitten, thrice shy, as they say, kind of. This time, I was mostly determined I …
February looked like being a carbon copy of the month before, with the usual wiat till the last night of the month forcing me out into uninviting weather. The forecast was better than last time, so I hoped to get further away from Aberdeen than last time, if it stayed dry enough. As I headed …
Finally, the latest lockdown had ended and I needed to sleep somewhere different. As usual my time was scarce, so I headed out on a Friday night to go to a nice spot I had been with the kids just a couple of weeks before, whilst keeping to the 5 mile limit from the Aberdeen …
With the panic about COVID-19 beginning to really ramp up, I decided I would bring forward my bivy from it’s usual last-gasp position at the end of the month, to a Wednesday night barely two weeks into March. It was just a precaution, but the lockdown that was enforced the following weekend proved it to …
After two consecutive years of bivying, I saw no reason to stop now. As usual, I had been putting January off for various reasons and saw my plans for a midweek bivy scuppered by illness. I recovered enough by the end of the week for a last gasp effort on Friday the 31st. Unfortunately my …