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Tell us your benightment epic tale! 4-Apr-2014 At 9:36:43 PM martym

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On 4/04/2014 Superstu wrote:
>technically, a benightment
>is an unplanned bivouac, so I remain a benightment virgin.
>
>Tell us what happens? How do you decide who gets to be big spoon and the
>little spoon? Do you end the trip best of buddies or never ever climb together
>again???
Is my climbing vocab so limited?
I always thought benightment just means getting caught out in the dark...
Does it actually mean having to spend the night on the wall/top of the cliff/bivvying in the carpark with a dead battery (nearly did that one...)?
In which case, I too am un benighted...

Although once we came bloody close after topping out at Heathcliff in the blueys - we'd lucked upon a fellow Chockstoner's holiday home for Valentine's Day & were looking forward to the 15 minute stroll back to Wombat St... 3 and a half hours later and we finaly emerged in the Hare Krishna camp thingy on Mt Boyce firetrail...