Murphy's Laws of Jungle Training

• The moment your groundsheet has lost its waterproof capability, the skies will open up and prove it to you...in the middle of the night...while you are sleeping fitfully in your hammock...
• The moment you return your life-jacket to the store, you realise that you will need it...to cross Sungei Temburong...which is 50m wide...and fast-flowing...and has crazy currents!
• The moment you realise that you need everyone to have machetes to chop through the impossible vines and thorny rattan plants, you find out that only 2 persons have it!
• Trust the GPS...trust the pilots who have been playing around the area for months...don't trust the guy who plotted your checkpoint in the map!
• Be very afraid when you see areas in the map with no contour lines! What? You think there are wide open spaces in the middle of the jungles?!? Two words...HIDDEN KNOLLS!
• Even though you may have marked the route, Murphy Law states that the moment you have to back-track, you will have a bitch of a time looking for the markings!
• Never let the sounds of vehicles in the jungle fool you...they may be miles away!
• Murphy Law states that you will get your balls wet in the jungle no matter what. You may have kept it dry all the way but the moment you want to reach a critical point which will lead you to your objective, you will have to cross a deep river...
• Murphy Law states that you will fall down in a way that will make your mates helpless with laughter at least once...if they have not caught it on camera that is!