Basha Help Please

[NorthernRaider]

(12 March 2012, 10:19)Scythe13 Wrote: Thanks NR, that's the kind of thing I'm looking to learn about.

(A) How was it, living under a basha for 21 days?

(B)Another question, with a basha, most the videos I've seen, people are putting their sleeping bag or sleeping mat on the floor. I'm not keen on that, simply because it means you'll be getting it dirty if you're staying there for any length of time. So a bivi seems a good enough way to protect the sleeping bag from the ground. I'm not a fan of using a groundsheet!

Any suggestions there?

(A)Filthy and smelly and smokey, but safe.
(B) if you are staying one night and your bag is a propper out door waterproof bag the ground is fine , Catalogue or Argos type crappy bags are no good for anything but camp beds in tents.

If you are stopping multiple nights you can use a crappy 1/2 inch thich campa mat, or you can collected some nice foliage and make a raised bed area, I used to use leafy branchs off trees, the thin flexible new growth which is soft and springy.

Others used to make a mattress from the turf dug up for fire pits to sleep on. Thin campa mats are a gimmic, only useful for insulation properties not comfort.

Dont forget to scrape a small hollow in the ground under the bed for your hip to go in when you sleep on your side

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In northern Europe AOOs basha living is enhanced by the purchase of a pair of secatuers or shears for cutting soft wood for bedding and cammoflage

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(12 March 2012, 10:19)Scythe13 Wrote: So a bivi seems a good enough way to protect the sleeping bag from the ground. I'm not a fan of using a groundsheet!

Any suggestions there?

Ferking hell Lateral thinking did not last long did it ?
If your allergic to the ground, and clearly obssessed with ultra lightweight sleeping arrangements why not take a bush hammock?

http://www.ddhammocks.com/products

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B001WR57IA/re...B001WR57IA

http://compare.ebay.co.uk/like/230295865...s&var=sbar