What's the word for that thing ?........

pistonbroke · Post by **pistonbroke** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 3:54 pm

Surely there must be a word for when you're in unfamiliar terrain, it's going dark and you are looking for a suitable place to doss, it's not ideal, rough ground, no water, draughty, etc then the following morning you cycle another km and there's the camping equivalent of Nirvana with a bubbling spring, soft grassy hollow, perhaps even a refugio or bothy. I suppose Sod's law partially covers it but here's hoping the hive mind can come up with a more aposite word?

benp1 · Post by **benp1** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 4:01 pm

a 'lesson'

Mariner · Post by **Mariner** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 4:09 pm

Life?

whitestone · Post by **whitestone** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 4:13 pm

Tough

ianfitz · Post by **ianfitz** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 4:23 pm

whitestone wrote:Tough

en up princess

Dave Barter · Post by **Dave Barter** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 4:29 pm

Premature encapsulation

Bearbonesnorm · Post by **Bearbonesnorm** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 5:10 pm

Premature encapsulation

nedrapier · Post by **nedrapier** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 5:15 pm

Experience.

It fits, in a funny sort of way, one of my favourite sayings:

"Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."

Scattamah · Post by **Scattamah** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 5:31 pm

Luck of the draw.

I had something very similar on TNR last year...passed out behind a rock cause I couldn't find a flat pitch. 5 minutes riding in the morning exposed half an acre of flat, grassy, camping friendly ground. I was just too far gone to do that extra 5 minutes that evening.

Greetz

S.

Kumquat · Post by **Kumquat** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 7:17 pm

Yup
Premature Encapsulation.
I think you may have coined something there.
Float like a butterfly, sting like P.E.

frogatthefarriers · Post by **frogatthefarriers** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 8:35 pm

pistonbroke wrote:I suppose Sod's law partially covers it...

Gumperson's Law is better. "The probability of an event occurring is inversely proportional to its desirability"

BigdummySteve · Post by **BigdummySteve** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 9:50 pm

Even worse is kipping in a semi crap spot when you passed somewhere which retrospectively was perfect five miles back.

Ray Young · Post by **Ray Young** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 9:52 pm

Bugger.

ianfitz · Post by **ianfitz** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 10:16 pm

BigdummySteve wrote:Even worse is kipping in a semi crap spot when you passed somewhere which retrospectively was perfect five miles back.

Or kipping somewhere a bit crap and then finding the perfect spot the next morning just around the corner...

pistonbroke · Post by **pistonbroke** » Tue Mar 07, 2017 10:42 pm

Try and keep up Ian, that was the point of the original post.
It struck me as I was driving back from today's recce for the Spanish C2C, I'd been looking on Google earth for a suitable bivvy spot and found what looked like a good location alongside a bassa which is a man-made water hole used for irrigation and putting out forest fires. Turned out to be fenced off and surrounded by prickly bushes. About 500m further on there was a sheltered spot in an orchard which fits the bill nicely.

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