Definitions
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- noun informal A
bivouac sack - noun informal The
location of abivouac - verb informal To camp in a bivouac
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Examples
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Small, ultralight solo shelters (often called bivy sacks) have bare essentials and weigh as little as 1 or 2 pounds.
Arkansas Online stories < 2010
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Or do you pack bivy gear and other equipment that's going to slow you down but allow you to enjoy a more leisurely pace—and give you the ability to weather a storm or poor conditions?
Summit Meetings Michael J. Ybarra 2011
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I also camp out of a bivy sack so I can move camp daily or as needed without the drama of "breaking camp" and also minus the extra weight, (about 3pnds) of a tent, unless with a buddy of course.
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I also camp out of a bivy sack so I can move camp daily or as needed without the drama of "breaking camp" and also minus the extra weight, (about 3pnds) of a tent, unless with a buddy of course.
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Mahdi and Bonatti were forced to bivy and suffered severe frostbite.
Lino Lacedelli-K2, Dead at 83 « Climbing News « The Blog@www.alanarnette.com – Comments Page 1 2009
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Mahdi and Bonatti were forced to bivy and suffered severe frostbite.
Lino Lacedelli-K2, Dead at 83 « Climbing News « The Blog@www.alanarnette.com 2009
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With the proper clothing/bivy equipment, a stove, and fuel, climbers can survive for several weeks in a snow cave.
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It described the route that they were going to take as they climbed Mt. Hood, and it also talked about what they had with them: food, fuel, rope, shovel, and a bivy sack, sort of an outer shell which could provide waterproof warmth.
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PHILLIPS: All right, but like you mentioned, the two things that Captain Bernard pointed out, the fact that they have a bivy-sack and shovel.
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BERNARD: A bivy sack is an outer shell or the sleeping system, like a sleeping bag, only a bivy sack usually has a waterproof component to it or a water resistance component to it.
jsu commented on the word bivy
A stylish container in which one stores one's perceived coolness. As in:
Person 1: "Hey John, isn't that new campstove nice."
Person 2: "You don't even know what a campstove is! I keep my campstove in my bivy, and it whispers your name like wolfgang puck."
or
Person 1: "Hey John, my girlfriend suggested that we all go bowling tonight."
Person 2: "You don't even know what girlfriends are! I keep my girlfriends in my bivy, and that is where we go bowling too."
December 18, 2006