1. Forgetting your 10% off card in Millets and having to pay full price for your survival blanket.
2. Eating your emergency rations in the minibus on the way there.
3. Having to carry around an enormous backpack.
4. Falling over with your backpack on and not being able to get up again because it’s too heavy.
5. When it’s raining but also hot so you don’t know whether to put your coat on or not.
6. Having to put on your waterproof trousers knowing you're going to die of sweating.
7. Forgetting to line your backpack and getting everything wet.
8. Discovering that nobody in your group quite knows how to use a compass.
9. Which still isn't quite as bad as getting your OS map wet.
10. Realising after a few hours of walking that you were absolutely not prepared for this.
11. Eating your own body weight in Nature Valley bars and never being able to eat them ever again.
12. Having to walk through a bog and discovering that your boots leak.
13. Covering yourself in Vaseline to try and avoid chafing.
14. Spending loads of money on fancy socks but still somehow getting a blister.
nice big blister from DofE D:
And only being able to think about it for the entire time you're walking.
15. Getting a splinter from climbing over a fence.
16. Having to cross a field of terrifying cows.
17. Or having to negotiate with some inquisitive sheep.
18. Reaching a stage of delirium after two days of walking in the rain and screaming songs from musicals at passing farm animals.
19. Forgetting to pack a crucial element of your tent.
20. Sitting down as soon as you get to the campsite and realising you actually can’t get back up again.
21. Only ever bothering to bring Super Noodles for dinner and thus ruining them for life.
22. Spilling meths in your food.
23. Literally getting bruises from your backpack.
LOOK AT THE BRUISE ON MY SHOULDER FROM MY DOFE BAG omg okay I agree with Miss Lambert my bag was a little too heavy
24. And getting extremely weird sunburn lines.
