Long's Peak Bivy Question
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Maybe a silly question, but I have never camped and then climbed around Longs Peak, Rocky Mountain area, or even Estes/Lumpy. |
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That's correct: you are NOT allowed to use a tent; bivy bags or equivalent only. Not sure about hammocks. |
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Bivy only. No tents, no hammocks... Lots of rocks to bivy under with no bag at all. Lots of rangers checking permits. |
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Thanks guys that helps, Maybe just a sleeping pad, sleeping bag and some garbage bags to stay dry lol |
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Many of the established bivy areas in RMNP have some pretty sweet rock bivy structures. You can sometimes find one that is well covered and will keep you relatively dry. I still bring a bivy sack. |
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Along with established campgrounds,there are backcountry campsites and crosscountry camping zones where you are allowed to use a tent, but these fill up pretty quickly and may or may not be in the best location for the climb you want to do. The climber's bivy sites are an extra option that isn't open to most park visitors, just climbers (note where the rules say that everyone in the party has to be climbing, and t has to be at least a 4 pitch climb). |
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How difficult are the spots to locate of you've never been up there before? I have a bivy spot reserved to attempt Kieners this next weekend. |
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Shepido wrote:How difficult are the spots to locate of you've never been up there before? I have a bivy spot reserved to attempt Kieners this next weekend.Do you have any indication of where the site might be at (if there is an established structure)? I did Lamb's Slide and saw no sites, but it was also still dark until I was basically already on Mill's Glacier, so if it was closer to Chasm Lake or even further down I could have easily missed it. By comparison, there is a bivy structure at Sky Pond that the trail goes right passed and is only a couple notches down from being a complete rock hut and is basically unmistakable and impossible to miss... |
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Very comfy bivy caves in the talus field above Chasm Lake. |
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We reserved it in an area above chasm lake (Mills Glacier Bivy) but based on the park service map its just a huge shaded area on the map, between the lake and lambs slide. |
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Brian wrote:Very comfy bivy caves in the talus field above Chasm Lake.Awesome |
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Picked up a bivy sac and Permit and will be up there from sat to Sun this week. |
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Shepido, |
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I think the rangers had a binder with pics of bivy sites and locations (like zoomed out view of above chasm lake with sites marked) at the visitor's center where you get your permit. |