Originally posted by Gordonator:
during my very wet field camp, on the 5th or 6th day, we
began digging our selfscrapes and fire trench. we started digging
after dinner at around 1900/2000HRS. the worst part is it rained
for the past 2 days, the ground was so muddy it was very hard to
dig since mud is heavier than soil because of the water inside. we
wasn't allowed to use our flash lights, only candles is allowed.
but candles burn out very fast so for most of the night we were
digging in total darkness.
the fire trench is the hardest part. as expected, many of us
couldn't finish digging so we were finally allowed to sleep at
round 0200HRS. sad thing is, we have to [b]sleep in the muddy
selfscrape! yes i repeat, sleep in the muddy selfscrape!
we were ordered not to cover our selfscrape with ground sheets. as
we were so tired, we couldn't care less, we lan lan crawl into the
cold muddy selfscrape and slept. well, that's not all, sleeping
halfway, it rained in the middle of the night! it was shivering
cold. everyone's selfscrapes became flooded!
everyone's mood hit a all time low. many just stand there in the
rain staring at the ground. it's was that demoralizing.[/b]
Brings back memories of my own field camp. Yup, rain is
seriously demoralising. My batch was the 'guinea pig' that tested
out 10-day field camp. It rained pratically everyday, all of us
were wet for the whole field camp... eat in rain, sleep in rain, do
IFC in rain, dig in rain.... u get the idea. And it wasn't juz
drizzling, it was torrential rain most of the time.
Got so cold, esp at night, keep shivering. Lousy basha isn't
waterproof.
But was lucky enuff not to sleep in flooded shellscrape, thanks to
wild boars. For safety reason, OC let us sleep on hard ground
around training shed 
