jblam
Lil-Rokslider
- Joined
- Oct 19, 2020
- Messages
- 134
Last year I went on a few day backpacking hunt and took a bivy to save on weight I couldn’t spare elsewhere. I ended up getting caught in a ~13 hour punishing rain storm one night, not ideal in a bivy. About 3 hours into the storm I woke up short of breath and my heart rate was like 110, not my normal resting rate of 50ish. I opened the zipper a bit, stuck my mouth to the opening, and a minute or two of breathing later my heart rate dropped and I closed up shop and went back to bed. This process continued a few times throughout the storm.
While I was laying there wondering if I should have packed a snorkel for the trip, I was wondering if the completely soaked bivy effectively became air tight because it was completely water logged. Has anyone else had this happen? Opening the bivy and getting air moving fixed my heart rate every time I woke up. It did not help the 2” of water at the feet of my bivy, but that’s just luck of the draw I guess.
Oh and as a side note this was a bivy I’ve used once and is a very commonly used/highly recommended brand.
While I was laying there wondering if I should have packed a snorkel for the trip, I was wondering if the completely soaked bivy effectively became air tight because it was completely water logged. Has anyone else had this happen? Opening the bivy and getting air moving fixed my heart rate every time I woke up. It did not help the 2” of water at the feet of my bivy, but that’s just luck of the draw I guess.
Oh and as a side note this was a bivy I’ve used once and is a very commonly used/highly recommended brand.
