A two-person tent is arguably the most versatile choice of shelter for anything from a long-distance backpacking trip to a ...

Best bivvy bag wild camping: compact shelters made for one - Need a single-occupancy solution for a cross-country adventure? Mission accomplished ...

The new Hyperlite Bug Bivy is about as light as a full-body outdoor shelter gets, packing down to water bottle size on long journeys. At camp, it provides full protection from the biting bugs that ...

TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY, N.C. — No charges of involuntary manslaughter will be filed after a 12-year-old boy died at a Western North Carolina camp, District Attorney Andrew Murray announced Tuesday.

It’s where you camp in just your sleeping bag which is covered with a bivvy (a waterproof jacket for your sleeping bag). For some more shelter, people also throw a tarp into the mix.

A bivy sack gives more protection than a sleeping bag alone, often eliminating the need to sleep in a tent when camping. Bivies typically include a breathable inner layer that can be zipped and an ...

The boy's bivy bag was also closed with an audible alarm that was placed there to prevent him from being able to open the bag himself, according to the autopsy.

A vulnerable 12-year-old was killed on his first night at a 'cruel' troubled-teens camp when he was sealed up and left to suffocate in a faulty sleeping bag-like tent, or bivy, in what coroners ...

He had been at the camp for less than 24 hours when staff members discovered the boy was dead inside a bivy, a sleeping bag-type tent used by a single person.

In this case, however, the report states that “the outer, waterproof opening was fully secured and closed with an audible alarm which could not be opened by the decedent and the entire bivy was ...