How do you make a bivouac?

Answer 1

Get two great big stakes. If you're really desperate, use saplings, although using fresh live wood is a bit unfair on the poor old trees. Both your long bits of wood will need to have a fork about three or four feet up. Now stick them in the ground really firmly, around four feet or a stride apart.

Now you need a third pole that's long enough to stretch across the other two upright bits of wood. Lay it across the forks of the two stakes. If you drove them into the ground firmly enough the whole thing won't fall over.Now you've got a cool shelter framework but it needs a bit more support. Find some more branches and lean them against your horizontal pole, especially on the more windy side of the bivouac. You might want to weave some extra branches in to make your shelter really solid.

Starting at the bottom, weave branches, grass, twigs, reeds and whatever you can get your hands on up the frame of your bivouac in a criss-cross fashione. This will make it nice and waterproof. Make sure the whole thing has some nice heavy branches on the top so your shelter doesn't blow away in a storm like the little pig's house.