>>2083487No, you could make one with some structure over your face or a tie-off so you could tie it up to the ceiling of your tent/tarp, but I never thought that would work very well for side-sleepers. Laying on my side, there's only a small part of the side of my face that netting material sits against, and I usually have a beanie on when I sleep on a campout (pulled over my ears). It doesn't bother me personally. My intention for the bivy was more as a way to seal myself off from the bugs crawling on the ground, and have an extra barrier of DWR nylon over the foot of my sleeping bag.
In the mountains, Colorado and Utah, where I used to live, ticks were a non-concern. I think they might live in those states at low elevations, but you'd never get them from a camping trip into the upper elevations. I would frequently forgo the bivy and just zip myself into my sleeping bag with no problems. A couple times, I woke up to find a harmless spider or other bug crawling around on me, sometimes under my clothes, but when you're camping at 10,000 feet, the area is not really known for a plethora of venomous animals, and it really didn't bother me. You just crush them with your fingers or flick them off of you. Mosquitoes are more of a problem. I woke up many times to see a couple fat ones hanging on the inside of my tent presumably full of 1-2 cc's of my red blood before I started bringing the bug bivy on every single trip.
