Just wondering if you can get a separate hoop for a standard bivvy bag, I have an Alpkit XL bag but I would quite like for it to be off my face when retreating inside.

Any recommendations?

You could make your own out of 2mm or 3mm carbon fibre sections. Stu over at Bearbones did something similar. https://bearbonesbikepacking.co.uk/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=16986&start=25

I’ve currently got a set of those poles that I intend to try out as internal poles for a tarp for a hammock.

Is it time for my fishing pole photo?

You keep your pole to yourself!

You keep your pole to yourself!

What’s up, worried you’ll get bivvy hoop?

😂

I’ve checked out the Bearbones website and there is a choice of poles 😳

I don’t think Stu offers it as a standard product, it was something he was playing around with. The poles on the site are for tarps and are like traditional tent poles but aren’t mean for flexible situations.

You could make your own – https://www.easycomposites.co.uk/2mm-carbon-fibre-rod cut into whatever lengths are suitable for carrying, plus short lengths of carbon fibre “ferrule” – https://www.easycomposites.co.uk/3mm-pultruded-carbon-fibre-tube You’d have to buy a metre but at £3 it’s not going to break the bank. Cut a 60mm length then glue to the end of a section. Also a section at either end to provide a bigger “foot” so it doesn’t punch through the bivy bag.

The few times I’ve bivvied, I found a separate small tarp over head end if the bag the best solution.

Although now my tent weighs about the same as my old (ex army) bivvi bag…

If all you are trying to achieve is lifting the bag off your face then attaching it to an overhanging tree branch can work. The problem with that it twofold; (a) you won’t always find a tree where you want to camp and (b) in a breeze, the branch will be moving around, flapping the material against your face.

The solution is obviously to take your own overhanging tree branch

The solution is obviously to take your own overhanging tree branch

And bike theft alarm all in one.  I like it 👍

Like Matt suggests, I mostly use a small tarp with a bivvy bag (my DCF microtarp only weighs 72g). However when I still want insect protection the bag will be zipped up. Attaching a similar cord to the underside of the tarp achieves the same result.

I have a small tarp that I sometimes use. I was just a bit envious of my pals hooped bivvy and wondered if I could buy something to fit mine.

Seems there isn’t anything specific out there. Maybe I should just buy a hooped bivvy. Any recommendations on one of these?

My hooped bivvy is much taller then most and uses  an upright pole rather than a curved one. The opening is down the side rather than at the top end. It has loads of space inside it weighs 620g.

https://www.ultralightoutdoorgear.co.uk/equipment-c3/tents-shelters-c25/one-person-tents-c74/lunar-solo-tent-p10298

TBH I’m not actually convinced about hooped bivvies but I’d like to try the swanky new OR Interstellar.